Mostly what audiences want is sex and violence in all their glorious forms—often expressed through bloodless moral or ethical lapses of judgment, poor choices, and crummy decisions. Sex and violence do not require pornography or blood-curdling horror effects to make an impact. Innuendo works equally as well as graphic words and pictures. Deep, heartfelt, grating angst can be just as violent as bloody battles. But put both emotional words and violent images together and you may raise the roof.
