I’m confused about the point of this article. Is it to reduce violence in some way? How about not “shooting” violent scenes or refusing to display weapons in your movie? Removing certain words from your filmmaker lexicon seems like the least effective way to reduce violence. Whatever the reason for this weird take on the word “shoot” the author of it will be hard pressed not to use the word when they shoot a basketball, do shots at a party, shoot to the top of their industry or wish upon a shooting star. The author states that “words matter.” True. But what matters most is the context of those words. In the context of film making, using the word “shoot” does not, has not, and never will imply violence and no reasonable person would ever feel threatened by such language. Please feel free to continue using the word shoot and speaking English and please disregard this idiotic article.
I’m confused about the point of this article. Is it to reduce violence in some way? How about not “shooting” violent scenes or refusing to display weapons in your movie? Removing certain words from your filmmaker lexicon seems like the least effective way to reduce violence. Whatever the reason for this weird take on the word “shoot” the author of it will be hard pressed not to use the word when they shoot a basketball, do shots at a party, shoot to the top of their industry or wish upon a shooting star. The author states that “words matter.” True. But what matters most is the context of those words. In the context of film making, using the word “shoot” does not, has not, and never will imply violence and no reasonable person would ever feel threatened by such language. Please feel free to continue using the word shoot and speaking English and please disregard this idiotic article.