Attenborough Blames Violent Films For Youth Crime

British film maker Lord Richard Attenborough has called for an last to costless violence on-screen - insistence graphic images in movies have lED to a rise in youth offence. The Gandhi director, wHO starred as a knife-wielding thug in 1947's Brighton Rock, spoke out about violent scenes in movies and TV shows in a speech at Sussex University, England earlier this week (begs21Jul08). The veteran star accused the picture show industry of creating a culture where film fans are no longer dismayed by the use of guns and knives on the enceinte screen. And he believes this crataegus laevigata be connected to the sharp wax in tongue crime in the U.K. since the start of 2008 - including the fatal stabbings of Harry Potter star Robert Knox and the brother of British max actress Brooke Kinsella. Attenborough says, "Thirty years ago if (legendary late doer) Gary Cooper pulled out a gun the audience would give a precipitous intake of breath. "Now the playact of violence is the norm and we in the entertainment industry are partly responsible in making the mien of weapons such as knives well-nigh an acceptable commonplace." He adds, "So now knife crime is not thought of as something that is horrendous and to be abhorred. It is part of normal macrocosm." Attenborough's comments come just weeks after a host of celebrities including singer Lily Allen and knocker Busta Rhymes called for an destruction to the spiralling knife crime epidemic in the U.K.