since when does Hollywood care about pissing of the religious?
i mean if they did, no harry potter movies would ever have been made.
just because something has "anti-religion" statements/plots doesn't mean it wont make money. just look at the da-vinci code (or dogma, my uber catholic father LOVES dogma). not all religious people refuse to see things that are 'attacking religion'. people like myself have no problems distinguishing between fact and fiction and can still be entertained by the story even if they don't agree with the message. people can still enjoy a movie if its well made and the story is good even if they patently disagree with the message.
Also, LOTR is allegorical many parallels can be drawn between aragorn's story and the gospel of mark. (for example, in that gospel the closer jesus gets to jerusalem, the closer he is to picking up his mantel of kingship, just like aragorn and gondor. Tolkien was a Christian so its not entirely surprising, plus he was good friends with cs lewis who wrote narnia which is one of the most popular allegories)
im just saying you are getting a little worked up here. if anything, hollywood tries to tone down the things that ARE religious. i was shocked that they did keep the allegory in the chronicals of narnia.
if they do tame down the anti religious nature of golden compass it will be because its coming out at the holidays and maybe they just want people to anjoy it, even if they haven't read the books. i highly doubt it will be because 'otherwise it will piss off the fundies' because if that was a reason no movie containing: gay/premarital sex/drugs/alcohol/other 'offensive' subject matter would be made. truth be told, you're always going to make the religious mad in SOME way. because theres a few people out there who shoot their mouths off over every little thing and ruin it for the rest of us.
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Date: 2007-10-03 03:24 am (UTC)i mean if they did, no harry potter movies would ever have been made.
just because something has "anti-religion" statements/plots doesn't mean it wont make money. just look at the da-vinci code (or dogma, my uber catholic father LOVES dogma). not all religious people refuse to see things that are 'attacking religion'. people like myself have no problems distinguishing between fact and fiction and can still be entertained by the story even if they don't agree with the message. people can still enjoy a movie if its well made and the story is good even if they patently disagree with the message.
Also, LOTR is allegorical many parallels can be drawn between aragorn's story and the gospel of mark. (for example, in that gospel the closer jesus gets to jerusalem, the closer he is to picking up his mantel of kingship, just like aragorn and gondor. Tolkien was a Christian so its not entirely surprising, plus he was good friends with cs lewis who wrote narnia which is one of the most popular allegories)
im just saying you are getting a little worked up here. if anything, hollywood tries to tone down the things that ARE religious. i was shocked that they did keep the allegory in the chronicals of narnia.
if they do tame down the anti religious nature of golden compass it will be because its coming out at the holidays and maybe they just want people to anjoy it, even if they haven't read the books. i highly doubt it will be because 'otherwise it will piss off the fundies' because if that was a reason no movie containing: gay/premarital sex/drugs/alcohol/other 'offensive' subject matter would be made. truth be told, you're always going to make the religious mad in SOME way. because theres a few people out there who shoot their mouths off over every little thing and ruin it for the rest of us.