Some kid in the U.S.A allegedly got this in their school newsletter:
Book and Movie warning!
Most of you are aware that the New Line Cinema release of a movie titled The Golden Compass will hit the theaters with dramatic impact on December 7, 2007. The promos for the movie are enticing and appear to offer an escape to fantasy and adventure. The Philip Pullman film, the first of a trilogy called His Dark Materials, has been compared to Lord of the Rings and C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia series. Well, it's not. The Golden Compass is the exact opposite of the Christian-based classics. The film is viciously anti-God while weaving messages of witchcraft, evolution, divination, homosexuality, and immorality. The author himself boasts that, "I am of the Devil's party and know it!". Needless to say, we strongly urge families to avoid this "soon to be popular" movie.
I saw the film last week and have no idea how anyone could think it "anti-God". There is not a single inclusion of anything remotely Christian eg: crucifixes or nutty prophets intent on getting themselves nailed to bits of wood. God himself gets no mention whatsoever (I'm sure he is secretly dissapointed).
If you check the IMDB message boards for the movie, you'll find all the usual American evangelistic bollocks. There are some nice comebacks though. I quite like this one:
and you worship a jewish zombie, who is his own dad that lives in the sky, and will make you live forever among people who fly around with wings, if you talk to yourself and pretend an invisible ... guy with a beard is listening and will forgive you for everything wrong in your life, which he happened to put there in the first place.
Monday, December 10, 2007
Golden Nutters
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That's truly one of the better descriptions of Christianity I've ever seen.
Haven't been here for ages! So glad you're still at it Simon...
If the author admitted his attendance to the party of the dark lord, does that mean Satan is a evolutionist gay witch?
Cool...
The books themselves actually have a strong antitheist slant. All the religious aspects were removed from the film version so that it could be played in america. A great shame in my opinion. The books essentially amount to a critique of the idea that a single all powerful God would be desirable. This adds considerable depth to the story line and the value of the books and its too bad that the film versions won't benefit from that too.
THOMP! Glad to "see" you dude!
Barnaby, I don't understand why there is such a problem, with the film, anyway.
The film opens with an explanation that there are different versions of reality, some where our souls are on the inside and some where our souls are on the outside. Hardly a anti-spiritual stance.
Barbaby is right Simon, the books were far more anti-church than the movie which saw the opposition more in political terms (to help it sell in the States methinks). But I agree with you that those of us who do believe in God should chill out a bit when we think we've been attacked. Can't our God take care of himself?
Incidentally Pullman has been doing a series of articles in the Saturday Guardian about his trilogy and last week he talked about the difference between a book and a film, with great insight.
Happy new year to you and yours.
st, perhaps anti the idea of a bunch of humans abusing their power in the name of a god, who may or may not exist, is what the books are really.
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