Leftists think the excising the religious aspects of a story somehow makes it more appealing to people.
It doesn’t. People instinctively realize there is a hole in the movie, even if they don’t know exactly what it is. The story just seems less organic and contrived.
The best example for me is how they get this wrong, and deny themselves the opportunity to make a really “great” movie, is the movie “Unbroken”.
It is a great movie of wartime courage and hardship, but without the religious aspect of it, it is just the same as dozens of other movies.
When Angelina Jolie made the decision to remove all aspects of Louis Zamperini’s faith, the movie fell flat.
His faith, his battles with alcohol bordering on madness, and his acceptance of God under the guidance and with the help of Billy Graham was astounding. Even more so was his journey of forgiveness back to Japan to meet with the prison guards who were still jailed, where he forgave them from his heart.
That is the key to the amazing story, not that they survived forty something days at sea, or they went through terrible, brutal, hardship at the hands of the Japanese.
The amazing thing was his faith. And they cut it out. It could have been one of the best war movies EVER, but instead, it was slightly above average.
Too bad.
Concerning “Unbroken” “When Angelina Jolie made the decision to remove all aspects of Louis Zamperini’s faith, the movie fell flat”.
I just saw a trailer for the sequel to Unbroken, in which Louis falls flat in life, only to lifted up by God. Sounds like this could be much more true to life than the first...I hope!
Nailed it.
Jolie did that?
Screw her, then.
Her movie "First They Killed My Father" is the most boring Cambodian Genocide movie EVER.
How she could take that subject material and make it boring is beyond me.