I asked this in the movie section and wanted to get an opinion from the religion section. Seemed to me that the older penguins were always depicted as religious and biased and inflexible. The younger penguins had to do their own thing true to their nature and couldn't change. I couldn't find one positive depiction of religion but many negative ones. Strong animal rights theme. Subliminal anti religious theme? Your thoughts?
2006-12-09 03:02:25 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
frankly, I do see a Hero theme ... but it seems more a la a "Curious George" motif than other genre where curious George is accepted only after doing something heroic and not so much because of some forgiveness or reconciliation
2006-12-09 06:46:44 · update #1
Hollywood is anti-religious, environmentalist, socialist, and completely make-believe. See the movies at your own peril, or just enjoy them in their utopian little world and go home to reality. Penquins can't talk anyway.
2006-12-09 03:47:44 · answer #1 · answered by ccrider 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not anti-religion, no. Although that's an easy, and superficial, analysis of the movie, it speaks more to paranoia about religion's place in our society than to any actual theme in the movie.
The main theme in that movie is called "The Hero's Journey" and it always invovles breaking with the tradition of the tribe or society in order to find, and bring back, a truth that changes the Hero and changes the tribe.
The Hero's Journey can be found in any story where the Hero undergoes trials that force a change in the Hero and in his surrounding world. It is is a universal pattern of storytelling from ancient tales of gods to Shakespeare to modern cinema and television. Such stories resonate because they reflect our own passage through life. The pattern forms unconsciously from the creator of the story and from us as we enjoy the story because we also unconsciously recognize the pattern.
Pick up "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell. it will change the way you understand movies, and many popular books, and give you a much deeper insight into human drives and motivations.
You can order it online:
http://www.amazon.com/Hero-Thousand-Faces-Mythos-Books/dp/0691017840
And you can read a pretty good summary here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces
2006-12-09 04:39:46 · answer #2 · answered by Praise Singer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you saying that it was an inaccurate representation to portray religious people as biased and inflexible? You mean religious people don't base their thoughts and actions on an unchanging 2000 year old book and don't use that book to justify everything they do?
I didn't see the movie but maybe they should have added a part about you being so easily offended, too.
2006-12-09 03:05:32 · answer #3 · answered by Michael 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Haven’t seen it, but from the way the kids described it, sounded like a rip-off of "Footloose" about a town that wouldn’t tolerate dancing based on religious beliefs.
2006-12-09 03:11:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, come on now. You people are gonna start on us penguins now?
2006-12-09 03:05:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
You need a girlfriend.
2006-12-09 13:35:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Awesome. Just another good reason to go see it. :)
2006-12-09 03:05:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yeah... of course.
2006-12-09 03:05:23 · answer #8 · answered by =_= 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i'm with you!
2006-12-09 03:20:40 · answer #9 · answered by sista! 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋