I have a sick joke for ya:
After World War II, Adolph Hitler was in South America, licking his wounds and plotting his return. He tells a potential investor, "When I take over the world I will murder all of the Jews on the planet! I will also kill one clown."
The investor, surprised, asks, "Why a clown?"
Hitler leans forward with a smile and says, "You see? Nobody cares about the Jews."
Important note: I'm not nazi fucker, dis is just a joke, fascism is evil...
(Probably you didn't know that Croats were the first nation to organise the resistance
movement in World War Two; Partisans were able to fully expel Nazi forces)
What the joke illustrates is how you can always center people's attention on the anomaly, not the norm. Story tellers , directors, and movie makers in general have known this ever since their art forms began. If you have hundreds of adults running for their lives, focus on the baby. The audience will suddenly have someone to feel for. If you have hundreds of people dying in a catastrophe, have the camera focus on a puppy. Suddenly the audience will go from watching special effects to caring about life. The same applies to the unfair racial cliché
- If you have a cast of 50 white people and only one black guy, then naturally people will notice when the black
guy gets killed. Movie makers think we are stupid (well, some of us are hehe).