Anti-Pagan movies? (or anti-feminist films)?

Question

I just saw the new version of "Wicker Man" and it was even worse than the original...

This new version specifically targets feminists, non-christians, and single mothers as being completely evil...

Are there any other films that have this kind of subliminal imagery that you can think of - I am going to write a paper.

I guess what I'm looking for is stuff like in The Wizard of Oz...
Ms. Gulch (played by Margaret Hamilton) is percieved as the "wicked" woman who lives around the bend and hates dogs...
But at the same time, she is also percieved as being an unmarried woman who is very uppity because she rides a bicycle - something that decent women were not accustomed to yet...
Later in the film she is referred to as the Wicked Witch...

Ms. Gulch is also dressed in accordance with the archetype of a strict school teacher - evoking "the evils of higher education"

Answer 1

I find Disney films to be filled with anti feminist imagery as well. Belle in Beauty and the Beast is abused by the Beast, her father is beaten. She is isolated, locked in a room and told she will, "starve". She is screamed at and verbally abused. Yet she puts up with this reign of terror and eventually he turns into a prince. This seems metaphoric for a relationship with an abusive male and a abused spouse feeling that it is her fault and if she was a better wife then she could change him
Another one is the Little Mermaid, who gives up her voice for a man. These two films are shown over and over to small children and little girls especially idolize, and emulate these two females characters. To me this is brainwashing.
Hope this helps.

Answer 2

ALL those Hollywood Biblically "inspired'' films are anti- pagan (and anti-thinking) and don't forget Gibson's 'Passion of the Christ', where there was no one pointing out that even in the previews there was enough blood on the ground for Christ to hemorrhage to death before crucifixion.
Two good anti-fem movies; ''Sound Of Music'' where the message is every woman is not happy until she's married with a brood of brats and "My Fair Lady'' more marriage stuff where women's happiness is only found when she runs back to the man who dominates her.

Answer 3

Sometimes it's hard to ignore the knuckle draggers (Like the one that posted above me). And they are sometimes filled with such vitriol! :)

I can't think of any anti-feminist films aside from the Wicker Man. (And the remake was certainly anti-women. I didn't get that same vibe from the original). I'm certain there must be others. If I come up with one, I'll edit this post.

I can think of many films that do the opposite and show what the world would be like without it, though. Like The Stepford Wives, and The Handmaid's Tale, et cetera.

Good luck with your paper!

Edit : I thought of one! Yay me.
Taming of the Shrew. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061407/
Tagline ; "A romantic film amorously devoted to every man who ever gave the back of his hand to his beloved...and to every woman who deserved it!"

Answer 4

Hmmm, I'm a feminist and a pagan, and I rather liked the first Wicker Man. It was campy and ridiculous.

I haven't seen the new version.

There aren't many "anti-pagan" movies out there simply because society really doesn't recognize Paganism at all. It's under the radar.

Answer 5

You see what you wanted to see; you entered the theatre (or your living room) with a preformed notion of what the film was about. You are unable to form an unbiased, thereby acceptable, conclusion of the film.

And I didn't much like the film to boot, so it shows you how much I dislike your position.