Even though most people don't enjoy watching death on the screen, Gerbner said violence on television and in the movies is getting worse. In his educational film, The Killing Screens, Gerbner said movies get more violent with every sequel. He used Robocop and Robocop II as examples. In the second movie, however, the death toll more than doubled to 81. Katz agreed, but said the increase in violence has to do with how men look at themselves and other men.
Violence is encouraged by the physical characteristics of powerful men in the media.
The booming voice overhead makes the scarecrow, the lion, the tin man and Dorothy stand still in terror. The wizard is speaking. He is a man of power, a man of strength, a man to be reckoned with. But when Toto, the little dog, pulls away the curtain to the wizard's control room, a scared man with a small voice stands behind the microphone. It is this scene from The Wizard of Oz that Katz uses as an example to show the desire many men have for power.