The two hallmarks of modern blockbusters, the sanitized but intense violence and the simplistic morality, are actually joined at the hip. On the one hand, if yo

The two hallmarks of modern blockbusters, the sanitized but intense violence and the simplistic morality, are actually joined at the hip. On the one hand, if your idea of a rollicking good climax is lots of people being killed, you need to make sure that those people are working in the service of some evil power so great and immovable that it can't be dealt with in any other way. On the other hand, if the world is divided between uncompromised good and uncompromised evil, it is actually okay for the good guys to resort to violence.