I just saw someone ask if the movie "I am Legend" is a metaphor for religion with Will Smith's character being god. When will this new trend end? It's tiring to hear how every movie that comes out is some sort of religious metaphor, either positive or negative.
2007-12-23 01:51:30 · 9 answers · asked by Two quarters & a heart down 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Rhonda T: I'm not your honey. Give me a break about "satan did it".
2007-12-23 02:01:28 · update #1
I know that some movies are made to be religious metaphors, but it seems like I'm always hearing about how some random movie is a metaphor for religion when it seems to me that it's just a movie. As one answerer said below "entertainment for entertainment sake" and nothing more.
2007-12-23 02:03:00 · update #2
The deeply religious need something to talk about, and since they have to filter everything through, well, the prism of their own brand of Christianity, that's what you get. A true fundie can't just be entertained for entertainment's sake.
2007-12-23 01:56:55 · answer #1 · answered by the_way_of_the_turtle 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
While not every person who goes to a movie may want to make a movie a religious metaphor. It is a way of connecting story lines to life. If a person is religious- they will try to see if it connects to their beliefs. You may not make metaphors or connect it to religion. You may try to make metaphors to other aspects of life. Story's are often metaphors to many things. The individuals beliefs and experiences will often reflect what they get from a movie. There is no wrong or right. This will always happen. We do it with music, art, written word, speeches, and movies.
2007-12-23 09:56:37 · answer #2 · answered by Mae V 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The people that see religious metaphors in movies are those same people that see Mary in a stain on a bath towel or Jesus in a paint smear on a municipal water tower...*sheesh*
2007-12-23 09:57:41 · answer #3 · answered by ms_beehayven 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, I don't know about "I am legend" but many movies are made that have religious overtones to them, on purpose. Either positive or negative.
2007-12-23 09:58:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ugh, what a clown, Rhonda! Are you twelve years old with your Rascal Satan?
Next thing you'll warn us about the Manticore.
2007-12-23 10:08:59 · answer #5 · answered by Gin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It goes beyond religion. People tend to over-analyze everything. I think, at times, people try to make themselves seem deep by reading meaning into things that have none.
2007-12-23 10:01:35 · answer #6 · answered by JC 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a sign of the times, Honey. As we get closer to the end of times, that old rascal Satan has to use whatever means he has to get us screwed up. So, why not give a piece of fiction some "religious relevance" and mess up the heads of a bunch of folks that are riding the fence and can't make up their minds which side (God or Satan) they are on.
2007-12-23 09:57:49 · answer #7 · answered by RT 66 6 · 0⤊ 6⤋
they got you to watch it didnt they... as far as they are concerned, that was their goal in the first place....
2007-12-23 10:35:00 · answer #8 · answered by bagsy84 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I couldn't agree more.
2007-12-23 09:54:14 · answer #9 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋