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Iron Crowned posted:Isn't that the exact plot of a Chick Tract? It is. I think both the Chick Tract and the film are based on the urban legend of Albert Einstein humilitating an atheist college professor. Something I've been wondering about while reading this topic: are these Christian "propaganda" films uniquely a US phenomen or do they exist in other countries as well? Samuel Clemens fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Jan 2, 2014 |
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Any chance to repost this.quote:A liberal muslim homosexual ACLU lawyer professor and abortion doctor was teaching a class on Karl Marx, known atheist
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BeigeJacket posted:Has there ever been any films based on Historical Jesus? Paul Verhoeven has been trying to make one for years, but it looks doubtful that it will ever happen now. The 1961 King of Kings spends a lot of time examining the political situation of the time. It highlights the tensions between the Roman occupants and the Jewish resistance movement in Jerusalem and shows how Jesus' teachings affected both. However, I don't know how much of it is based on actual historical research and how much is simply conjecture. raditts posted:Is that different from the actual musical? I've only ever seen the movie. The musical doesn't have the framing device of travelling performers, but otherwise it ends in exactly the same way. Leaving out the resurrection makes sense thematically, since Jesus Christ Superstar approaches the Gospel story from a mostly secular perspective. It's more concerned with the human side of Jesus, his fears and doubts, than it is with his spiritual message. We never see him perform any miracles on-screen either.
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May 13, 2014 12:50
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Star Man posted:And while commenting on the commercialization of Christmas, Kirk Cameron will also try to make a buck off of you. What confuses me about this trailer is that Cameron's friend has a legitimate point about the commercialisation of Christmas diluting its true meaning, but he's apparently completely in the wrong. The whole point of the film seems to be that Christmas is awesome just the way it is and you shouldn't ruin it by criticising its capitalist elements. Which is fair enough, I guess, but doesn't strike me as very Christian.
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Nov 11, 2014 23:59
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It's a shame that Chinese documentary just talks about someone's pet conspiracy theory because the actual history of Christianity in China is pretty interesting.
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Jun 11, 2015 22:08
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Wapole Languray posted:Are there any blatantly christian authors other than C.S. Lewis that aren't horrible people? Probably most Western authors before the 20th century.
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Aug 27, 2015 17:43
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Probably. After all, every character in the film is a caricature.
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Apr 2, 2016 14:24
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There are somewhere around 300 million Evangelicals in the world. I'm sure some of them believe in climate change.
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Apr 7, 2016 21:58
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Ensign_Ricky posted:So they're feeling oppressed by not actually being oppressed. It's basically a real-life version this Simpsons joke. Except, instead of quietly accepting that their views have become outdated, fundamentalists are desperately trying to stay relevant. That's why they fight so ferociously against LGBT rights; not because they genuinely fear that gay marriage will drat America forever, but because they know it's pretty much the last issue where the rest of the US hasn't fully left them behind yet.
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Apr 21, 2016 19:39
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Ben Hur feels like it was meant for fans of historical epics; the kind of people who went out in droves to see Gladiator. Which makes it even more bizarre that they barely advertised it at all.
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Aug 23, 2016 16:07
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Noah and Exodus were moderate successes as well, although Exodus made almost all of its money on foreign markets. Maybe Ben Hur will share a similar fate.
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Aug 24, 2016 14:35
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DoctorG0nzo posted:What would the rest of you think of this who saw it? Catholic film, or secular? Both. Or neither, I suppose. The question you are putting forward is something of a false dichotomy because the catholic themes in Calvary - guilt (collective and individual), compassion, revenge, forgiveness, redemption - are themes that strongly concern secular thinkers as well. Father James' spiritual journey is important of course, but it also serves as an opportunity to portray a community slowly falling apart through resentment and self-doubt. If both religious and non-religious students can identify with the film, it's probably because we all see something of ourselves in at least one of the village's inhabitants. I'm hesitant to reduce such a multi-faceted film to a simple statement, but Gleeson's line about integrity is what I consider the closest Calvary ever comes to a message. We all have to stand for something. Whether that something is of a religious nature or not is ultimately less important than that we try. Incidentally, if you're interested in the child abuse cases involving the Catholic Church and the moral questions they pose, I strongly recommend the Chilean film The Club. It touches on a lot of the themes that are also present in Calvary.
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Gibson's goal was to show the true extent of Christ's suffering, thereby venerating his sacrifice for humanity. I wouldn't call it showboating, though, firstly because it's not really targeted at a secular audience, and secondly because it's not meant to leave you happy and satisfied.
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Sep 10, 2016 03:31
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I think Hundu's point is that the film's strong focus on suffering is something you tend to find in Catholicism more so than Christianity in general. Redemptive suffering is a Catholic concept, after all. Edit: Not that there aren't plenty of other denominations who are into this sort of thing, of course. Samuel Clemens fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Sep 11, 2016 |
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ObamaPhone posted:I like any dramas involving Catholic priests. Based on your description, you might enjoy Roland Joffé's The Mission, in which a group of Jesuits try to establish a mission in the jungles of Paraguay, but come into conflict with official Church politics. Other interesting films with members of the Catholic clergy as main characters are The Club about a group of priests whom the Church hides from the outside world due to their sins, The Flowers of St. Francis about the challenges faced by Francis of Assisi and his religious order, and Monsieur Vincent, the biography of the priest Vincent de Paul, who dedicated himself to serving the poor. Also, the Vatican compiled an official list of 45 great films in 1995, which isn't a bad place to start if you're interested in Christian cinema.
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Sep 21, 2016 21:17
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I don't think that's an actual project. The IMDB link is the only reference to it I could find on the Internet. Even Cameron's website doesn't mention it. However, I did find out that Cameron has his own brand of coffee.
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Sep 24, 2016 13:19
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ObamaPhone posted:I had tried to watch it several times in the past, but didn't have the patience to do it. It's definitely a slow burn, especially the first half. If you ever get the chance, I'd strongly recommend seeing the film in an actual theatre; the landscape shots look gorgeous on a big screen. ObamaPhone posted:Certain parts I really did not like, especially the jovial score while the natives and colonists were cutting each other down. I don't know if I'd call Morricone's score jovial. Uplifting, certainly, but that's rather fitting given the film's themes. ObamaPhone posted:Jeremy Irons never impressed me in any movie he was in. He gives a wonderful (if very off-beat) performance in Soderbergh's Kafka.
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I don't know, I can see Silence becoming popular in church circles. It's not like these groups are fundamentally opposed to mainstream films with overtly Christian themes. Otherwise, they wouldn't have flocked to The Passion of the Christ in droves.
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Shageletic posted:I don't know, it seems altogether too complex and ambivalent to do well in evangelical circles (it has a healthy support by Catholic establishment types, though): I don't want to comment too much on the film's appeal since I have no idea how it will ultimately turn out, but the central theme of being persecuted for your beliefs by a hostile government plays extremely well with the Christian right in the US. I wouldn't be surprised if Silence ends up being shown a lot in Christian schools over the coming years. ComposerGuy posted:Passion was kind of a unique case, though, and it was still technically an indie film (Gibson financed the whole thing himself and no major studio wanted to touch it). That's a fair point, but mainstream is usually more about appearance than funding. The Passion of the Christ certainly managed to draw in a much larger audience than most of the films discussed in this thread.
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Ensign_Ricky posted:On that note, I feel that there are 3 distinct subsets of Christian film Where does Scorsese's work fit on this spectrum?
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Dec 15, 2016 14:21
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We're way overdue for a good adaptation of Paradise Lost.
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Dec 16, 2016 03:55
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Last Temptation of Christ? I figure it's somewhere between Epic and Well-Intentioned. Willem Dafoe as Christ is as harmless as John Wayne as a Legionnaire. I was actually thinking more of Mean Streets.
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SocketWrench posted:More like how, religion is like the whole show Easy, just make it a compilation of Larry's songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUkpE16b56g
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He's saying that the Newgrounds games DStecks linked aren't very representative of American Christianity because your average middle-class church goer has a strong aversion to violent media, even if they are otherwise fine with secular fiction.
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