Posted on 04/02/2018 2:34:56 PM PDT by Beave Meister
Oprah Winfrey latest movie “A Wrinkle In Time” just premiered, and it’s officially been labeled a flop.
The award-winning book that the movie is based on is a science fiction fantasy about Christianity’s concept of good versus evil, but Winfrey and the Black Lives Matter director Ava DuVernay erased Christianity, making it New Age and politically correct.
You’ll be shocked how “Christians and white people” are now blamed for its horrendous reviews. Oprah Winfrey starring in “A Wrinkle In Time” (left), a stock image of moviegoers (right).
Madeleine L’Engle’s 1962 award-winning book “A Wrinkle In Time” is known for its Christian themes, as well as being a sci-fi fantasy about a young girl named Meg whose scientist father gets trapped in another dimension by his own governmental experiment. Well, Oprah and her new favorite director, Ava DuVernay, took the novel and transformed it into a hot mess of a movie.
The movie is about racial diversity and social justice, and the critics say it “sucks.” The Federalist reports, “Critics are largely panning ‘A Wrinkle In Time,’ and Director Ava DuVernay is not taking it well. According to her Twitter feed, white journalists of either gender simply don’t understand her vision for the movie.”
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We’ll, if that’s what it takes......
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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.
All her life, she’s had ta suffah.
She should’ve gracefully ended her acting career, with that famous line.
Uh, no.
After watching the trailer it was “nah” for me.
That's not on them. Maybe she didn't understand her audience?
What she did was make a movie that SHE wanted to see, and is now blaming everyone else for not seeing it HER way.
-PJ
I’m sure I’m not alone in avoiding “message” movies and TV shows. I enjoy media designed to entertain me.
cripes...just what we need...a Hillary book-end
It is a VERY popular movie———most people buy their tickets in advance these days,ergo no lines.
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That is precisely the problem. We understand all too well O’s
vision for the movie. It was written as a sensitive, deeply Christian parable. She turned it into a profoundly offensive New Age orgasmic, druggie, sex party.
We “get” you, Oprah. You do not “get” people of faith.
Let's just play pretend and go along with Ms. DuVernay for a moment then, shall we? OK, white journalists didn't understand her movie, the same white journalists who are inclined to bending over backwards to write a positive review of anything even remotely "diverse," as this certainly is. If journalists who are ideologically predisposed to support her efforts didn't understand the movie to such an extent that they couldn't even manage to put a positive spin on it, how does Ms. DuVernay suppose everyday moviegoers reacted, the majority of whom are white by the way? It was incomprehensible, it made no sense, there's no way around it.
did you watch it?
As a former movie mogul - Goldwyn or Meyer? once said, “If they don’t want to buy a ticket, you can’t stop them”.
Madeline le Engle is one of my favorite authors and I wont be seeing this movie till it is on a streaming service because of those that made the movie removed everything that made her book special. and are delivering a message that the original author never intended with her works. so they are right my Christianity is the reason I wont be seeing it and it is a very valid reason.
Use “Afrocentric Accounting” and then it will be profitable!
Well, we white racists are way out of control, huh Ocra Dumphry? Would be nice if you would just go away.
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