The Golden Compass - An Atheist Movie?
Posted on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 @ 11:31:54 PST by infidelguy
Apparently there is talk on the net and in the media about this new movie being anti-church and anti-god. Allegedly, this movie is suppose to be a response to C.S. Lewis' work, The Chronicles of Narnia. How much truth there is to this.. I haven't investigated yet. Feel free to post below your research and opinions about this. IMO, even if true, so what? C.S. Lewis' work promoted Christian-like memes but I still enjoyed it. Hopefully, the negative talk about this movie will not hinder it's sales. It looks amazing, I can't wait to see it.
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Re: The Golden Compass - An Atheist Movie? (Score: 1) by eserafina42 on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 @ 23:32:35 PST (User Info | Send a Message)
All three of the books are excellent, although a lot of people don't care for the third one. They think it's "preachy," but I personally love books where people sit around and talk about the so-called "big ideas," and I never felt like he was demanding that people agree with him, just putting his ideas out there.
The movie is very well done, beautifully photographed and well acted, but I felt that it could have been better if the writers hadn't been so afraid of offending the fundies and the Catholic Church, which of course got them no points with those groups anyway. In my local paper, a priest said that seeing it was a "sin," and also that it didn't matter how much the religious themes had been compromised in the movies, because people would be encouraged by them to read the books, which of course have all the bad stuff still in them. They appear to have been right. The box office take, unfortunately, fell short of expectations, but a week afterward the trilogy was at #6 on Amazon.
What annoyed me was that the filmmakers seemed so conflicted. If you're so timid that you take out any reference to "the Church," which is in an alternate universe anyway, then you don't release the movie two weeks before Xmas, which seems to me to be waving a red flag in the religious groups' faces. If you're making it in the first place, you should have the guts to keep the meat of the thing, which is what makes it so good. Of course, if they should decide to make movies of the other two, it will be a lot harder to sanitize them.
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