Sick, Twisted People: How Hollywood Portrays Christians

BreakPoint ^ | 26 June 03 | Chuck Colson

[Mr. Silverback]

Amazingly, I have not seen any of the films listed. Go figure.

[Mr. Silverback]

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[Pahuanui]

Indeed, quite fascinating. I've seen Black Robe. It's a fantastic movie, and has more to do with cinema verite than any Christian-bashing.

[smith288]

Keeping in line with tradition...im going to "flip out" because I cant have relations with mules or kill someone for cutting me off according to God.

Yea...us Christians are a menace.

[John Beresford Tipton]

About the last film I saw was one of my favorites:
"The Russians are Coming"

[Spok]

Interesting to see the heat Mel Gibson is taking over his serious film about the last hours of Jesus. If it was a gay porn film, he'd be the toast of Tinseltown.

[John Beresford Tipton]

"I cant have relations with mules"

I don't remember anyone speaking about having relations with mule, although when I was in Juarez a guy said something about his sister..

[wideawake]

One unmentioned film is The Mission starring Robert DeNiro - about a selfish, worldly man who renounces himself, embraces Christ and sets out to convert and improve the lives of South American Indians.

It's surprisingly positive for a major motion picture.

[LiteKeeper]

INTSUM

[laweeks]

Don't forget the incessant trashing of Catholic nuns done by Karin Johnson (excuse me, former crack addict Whoopie Goldberg) done in "fun." Add to that "Nunsense", "Pagan Baby", etc. But if you have some Oriental mystic lighting incense and praying, as in Karate Kid, all of a sudden the music gets somber and soulful. I doubt if they'd show someone lighting a candle in a Catholic Church and praying. Haven't done that since Bing Crosby.

Goes right in line with the RIM (Reality Impaired Media) refusing to use the word "homosexual" in any of the attacks on children made by clergy. They don't mind offending the church, but not the pedophiles. Orate pro nobis.

[Onelifetogive]

My favorite portrayal of a Christian by Hollywood is Ned Flanders.

[Buckeye Bomber]

I'd hate to see movies say that Westerners (read as Christians) brought disease to the new world. That never happened. All those Injuns died of causes completely unrelated to the appearance of the Europeans.

[SoDak]

That's one of my favorite movies. I was totally impressed with it.

[Search4Truth]

The Mission is an outstanding movie.

[WKB]

"I cant have relations with mules"

Isn't that a Clint Eastwood movie?

[Heyworth]

Sadly, there’s no shortage of other recent examples. In the historical film Quills, about the Marquis de Sade, the vilest sexual behavior is performed by a Catholic priest; de Sade is portrayed as the persecuted victim of a puritanical society.

This is incorrect. The priest in the movie is the most sympathetic character in many ways. He runs the asylum where De Sade is imprisoned and tries to bring a level of dignity and enlightenment to the inmates. Unfortunately, he is constantly undermined by De Sade, whose predilections are as much anti-social as they are sexual--he attacks every semblance of authority, and uses his pornographic writings to shock rather than arouse (read De Sade someday--it's actually much more political than pornographic, especially "The 120 Days of Sodom"). When the priest is unable to control De Sade, the French Revolutionary government sends in Michael Caine, whose methods are less...gentle (read: torture). De Sade persists in defying authority, and his works ultimately, if indirectly, lead to another inmate raping and murdering a laundress. De Sade has a moment of clarity, although he denies it. Not a great movie, but an interesting depiction of resistance to authority and its ramifications.

[Buffalo Bob]

A good example of anti-Christian Hollywood is the rewrite of the main character in the new version of Cape Fear. They went out of their way to rewrite Deniro's character to be a bible-quoting, Christian stereotypical freak.

There is an agenda...

[wideawake]

It's amazing that it even got made - it is the antithesis of the usual Hollywood version of Christianity in the New World.

In other words, it's truthful.

[Libertina]

Ever notice the bad guys wear big silver crosses? We watched Reindeer Games the other night and I was amazed at the portrayal of the murderers as Christians, with them citing passesges from the Bible and murdering - yet getting upset at our "hero" taking the Lord's name in vain (or some such thing.) It was disgusting. The "good" guy (car thief, burgler) of course gave the stolen money to the "poor" NOT to authorities, and in the final scenes ate Christmas dinner with his family. (Who by the way had NOT picked him up from prison when he got out.)

[50sDad]

...and so few get the joke...Ned Flanders HAS the nicest family, the best relationships, the greatest joy.