Chronicles Of Narnia

Originally posted by Colin Phillips@Dec 6 2005, 08:12 AM
But Gareth don't you think that Bush and his "christian" freinds will use the series of films, and the message that it is thought to carry, to justify their "policies".
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And, somewhat unbelievably, they've done exactly the same with the delightful "March Of The Penguins"!
 
I'll rest easy in believing in most people's instinct not to accept a series of kid's movies as justification for such policies. Anyway, who needs allegories when you've got a copy of The Passion of the Christ in every true believer's living room? Now, if he orders a remake of Triumph of the Will, we might have something to worry about...
 
Originally posted by an capall@Dec 6 2005, 06:33 PM
I often wondered if there was allegory in The Life of Brian. Can anybody put me out of my misery?
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I've heard it said that the Peoples Popular Liberation Front represented the beginnings of The E. Dead Group.
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His Dark Materials is of course anti religion . The Authority namely the Church are the bad guys .
 
Welcome back Mr Globe Trotter, sir!!

As Gareth & Kri say, there are pretty much Christian allegories in most strories, tales, books, films - surely the Lord Of The Rings is also similar? The thought of the young, innocent boy being the only one able to carry the Ring as others will succumb to it's lure? As far as I can see it, there are Christian allegories in most of these blockbusting storylines, it's just whether or not you get bothered over any allegory that may be implied.
 
Gareth - my mind has just been slightly boggled by your posting, :blink: and that doesn't happen often! The killer in Se7en was the second coming? Huh? How on earth does that compute? And who said so? I'm concerned that the second coming of Christ would be so tiny-minded, so vengeful, so remorseless, so bloody self-righteous and appallingly smug! All the reverses of the virtues that Jesus was supposed to have. Why on earth would a second Christ be in the least like that, other than it's just 'cute' thinking on the part of the author? Honest, I really can't work out some of these supposedly 'deep' things these days - I have to give up on this one!
 
I'm guessing he meant that the pyschopath in Se7en thought he was the second coming and it was his duty to purge the seven deadly sins.
 
Oh, I geddit now! (Poor old girl, the brain's going a bit more every day now!) The old religious nutcase scenario, rather than that the director intended him to be seen as a parable for a rather perverse second coming. Thank you, Shadow, the £10 is in the post. :lol:
 
It's just an interpretation, I honestly couldn't tell you if the screenwriter ever said anything about it (I should probably get around to listening to his commentary track on the DVD!).

John Doe believed he was on a mission from God to (literally) die for our sins. He just had to do it in a way which made people sit up and take notice, as he explains on the way to the desert. The idea is basically this: God's pissed off with what we've done with the world, and he wants us to know how much.
 
Yes, that much I got from the film. I thought you'd interpreted it as he WAS the second coming (not just that he thought he was - if it ain't being Napoleon, or Louis XVI, it's being Jesus with these fruitcakes, never Joe Bloggs the greengrocer).

I love this idea that God is this really flouncy, vicious old bat who lashes out at her/his/its naughty kids by having them done to death in the most appalling ways, as 'a lesson'. You'd have the NSPCC, Heavenly Branch, round in a crack if that was remotely likely. Tap an Earth child made of flesh and bone a bit too much, and you're off to jail. But God (so many millions believe) gets to wipe out tens of thousands annually with his blasted tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes and foul pestilences, and it's okay, he's just teaching us naughty humans a lesson, and we should be grateful he's taken time out of his busy schedule to treat us so mercifully. Yeah.
 
I am SO resisting the urge to make some entirely gratuitous vulgarity about your briefs not needing to be present, or even making a present of briefs to you. But my innate good taste has fortuitously overridden such a base desire.
 
Ssh! Don't mention the "T" word! He's had plenty of therapy and come to the conclusion that Playtex and Berlei just do nothing to enchance his figure let alone his social life!
 
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