Posted on 03/10/2018 12:25:36 PM PST by simpson96
Disney's big-budget adaptation of the best-selling novel "A Wrinkle in Time" falters in many of the same ways the book does— but there was one major change made in the movie from the novel. The film's version of events strips away explicit mention of God or religion, instead trimming down the central conflict to one between "evil" and "light."
Though the film adaptation has several critical flaws — namely pacing and an off-kilter wobble between too much exposition and then not enough — the removal of L'Engle's religious overtones leads to a key issue.
By removing the religious themes, the movie version of "A Wrinkle in Time" loses part of its narrative arc. This leads to a confusing storyline and muddled message when it comes to the antagonist and the purpose of the celestial characters of Mrs. Who, Mrs. Whatsit, and Mrs. Which.
Christianity is integral to the book version of "A Wrinkle in Time" Author Madeleine L'Engle, who died in 2007 at age 88, spoke about the importance of her own Christian faith as it relates to "A Wrinkle in Time."
"If I've ever written a book that says what I feel about God and the universe, this is it," L'Engle reportedly wrote in her journal. "This is my psalm of praise to life, my stand for life against death."
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This movie is to promote Oprah as the next Democrat candidate.
Won’t be watching it. My second grade teacher read this book to us in class. I don’t want to ruin the memory.
Another classic, dumbed-down and watered down. And today’s youth will be dazzled by the effects, and have no clue how they’ve been cheated.
Yep, I heard that Oprah spews new age pablum in this movie as she leads the girl on her journey.
Geez, what’s the problem? Are the Hollywood idiots who greenlit this film, afraid they will offend the sensibilities of their fellow Hollywood idiots, by being faithful to the book which inspired this movie? Afraid religious and or Christian references will offend Muslims? What the heck?
This is to be expected of Disney, going back to when Walt himself was in charge. His hatchet jobs on Felix Salten's Bambi: A Life in the Woods and Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio serve as examples.
>>The film’s version of events strips away explicit mention of God or religion, instead trimming down the central conflict to one between “evil” and “light.”
General Revelation makes even Humanists look for generic “light”. Unfortunately, Satan is the brightest star in their worldview.
If Dante is Aquinas set to music, the Narnia books are “Mere Christianity” set to music. When Disney reduces the Christological aspects of Aslan to a whisper, the same blandness results.
How sad that we can't tell a tale anymore!
All this is irrelevant to Disney. How many gay sex scenes did they sneak in?
This movie is a microcosm of the decline of Hollywood. Refusing to face the reality of the spiritual struggle of mankind between the forces of good and evil, they have lost all depth of character in their own writing. Now reduced to searching elsewhere for stories worth telling, they cannot resist discarding any depth they find, and substituting their own shallow world views.
Once they surrender to their lusts, the only thing that excites them is their lust and the struggle for them from that point on is not between good and evil, but which evil and how much?
Natch.
For social justice to be achieved Judeo Christian Western Civilization must be destroyed.
I don’t even want to know what those twisted perverts at Disney are going to do to this. They basically spat in the face of every Star Wars fan with their last movie. It was actually my sixth grade teacher who read Wrinkle in Time. I don’t know why I said second.
Watch how far it will have plummeted a week from now.
In a way, the story of A Wrinkle In Time falls right in line with pushing female empowerment and all that. The protagonist is a teenage girl. She is guided on her journeys by Oprah and other women. I’m sure they tweaked the story as needed, in order to play up the female empowerment angle..........
Movies often succeed or fail based on word of mouth. Marketing can only do so much. If people’s family and friends see a movie, and say it was terrible, don’t go see it, then that can sink a film.
I enjoyed the story as a youngster, but not impressed from what I’ve heard about Oprah spewing new age pablum as she guides Meg on her journey. I admit I’ll be influenced by word of mouth on this one.
Yep. Like clockwork. Everything is planned.
A book that I never understood.
I was the kid who read mostly higher level nonfiction. Most of the teaching crowd hated it.
Yes, I was dysfunctional.
I mostly stick to science fiction, which occasionally detours into fantasy. I wish I was more the nonfiction type, but I’ve only read a few of those. Still, there are elements of the real world in good sci fi, Hollywood movies excluded. There’s no good sci fi when it’s run by scientific illiterates like Jar Jar Abrams.
Christianity is dangerous, don’t ya know?
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