Did Michael Winner start off the trend for violence in movies?
He was one of the first directors to start getting more visual with violence but by no means a trend setter. Stanley Kubrick made A Clockwork Orange in 1971 (Death Wish was in 74 by the way) so violence had alreday started to creep into main stream films. On the flip side, if Winner was responsable, he is now reduced to selling Insurance so that if any of his past films have been responsible for a more angre sociaty, at least we all have good insurance to cover the cost of our injuries!
