Let us be very frank. The violence you see in movies is unrealistic. Upon hearing this you may say, "Good, we're talking entertainment after all." And face it the trend in action movies -- that are live action anime/manga cartoons are exciting ... we however, have problem with that.

Namely -- and protest this idea all you want, experience bears it out -- the public tends to believe what they see in the movies. Obviously not on the big issues like aliens, space ships, monsters and honest politicians, but smaller and more subtle things like 'based on a true story.' This especially applies to as "How criminals and violent people act." Basically that's the closest that most people will ever get to violence so how do they know that what they are seeing isn't even close to how it actually occurs?

This creates a problem for us because in trying to teach people how to stay safe from crime and violence, what they are looking for is the movie/book version of the bad guy. In the mean time the real criminal is walking right up to them.  Conversely, if realizing that they are being approached by a criminal, they often cast around for a behavior that they hope will scare him away. What they usually end up landing on is a bad parody of a movie hero. A parody that immediately alerts the criminal that the person is safe to attack.

Now we could rant and rail about these circumstances OR we can help the entertainment industry and writers to portray an even scarier and convincing version by showing how it is really done. The accurate portrayal of violence is far more visceral and frightening experience to the audience than what actors and writers can come up with their imagination.

By helping you get it right, we help ourselves teach people how to be safe

Manuscript Review
Want to make your writing about dangerous situations and the men and women who function under those circumstances more realistic. We will read and give you a page by page critique of both the strong points and where your character would get his head blown off if he did it that way.
$400 per script/manuscript

Street Tough 101
How do criminals act? What are the survival skills and attitudes of people in "the Life?" What are the behaviors and awareness necessary to survive the violence and insanity of street life? Week long course, including "field trips."

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