"I would call it stylized violence, which is a way of saying, i think what i was hearing you say, a jacky chan movie isn't actually creepy. It's its dance in right? It's a performative. In that case, the coreography is almost explicit," he says. "It's litle bit like wrestling. We understand that it's violent, but it has been planned."
Stuntman and action designer Eric Jacobus joins EconTalk host Russ Roberts for a no-holds-barred discussion of the biological basis for violence and how to avoid the worst of it, the value of violence as spectator sport, and the vast superiority of duels to feuds--Alexander Hamilton notwithstanding.