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To: reasonisfaith
Beneath this are many other levels. Changing the way people think and behave has been an active agenda on the part of movie makers since the very beginning.

What are these "levels"? And what agenda do the producers of movies such as Doctor Strange and the Harry Potter flicks have beyond making a zillion dollars? I'll grant you that are political films with agendas, but Harry Potter? Not so much....

107 posted on 10/30/2017 10:14:03 AM PDT by Simon Green
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To: Simon Green

Brief example of multiple levels using unrelated content: Suppose there’s a tv show about a hero cop. The cop always wins, always gets his man. We’ve all seen it. The cop is very relatable. Lots of suspense, lots of action. Very entertaining.

By the way, the cop doesn’t like guns.

So here you see the superficial level message is good against evil. Meanwhile the underlying message is guns are bad and good guys should hate them. It’s very key that the audience is never told directly that they shouldn’t like guns. Many in the audience will never stop liking guns. But many others will.


108 posted on 10/30/2017 11:39:02 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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