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Posted on 7/21/11 at 3:12 pm to TulaneLSU
quote:The Exorcist
Best religious movies you've seen?
quote:Wtf?
Shawshank Redemption
Posted on 7/21/11 at 3:13 pm to snake1
Shawshank is anti-religious if anything. The Warden vs. Andy Dufresne. The ubber-religious Warden who is crooked and evil vs. the logical geological/evolution rock hound who is truly righteous.
"get busy living or get busy dying" - the world and your life and all you will ever have is the here and now
"Salvation lies within" - the rock hammer replaces the Warden's word of God in the Bible - it's up to you to make yourself in this world - you control your life - fairy tales have no place in this world.
"get busy living or get busy dying" - the world and your life and all you will ever have is the here and now
"Salvation lies within" - the rock hammer replaces the Warden's word of God in the Bible - it's up to you to make yourself in this world - you control your life - fairy tales have no place in this world.
Posted on 7/21/11 at 3:14 pm to TheCaterpillar
HOW'D IT GET BURNED?!
HOW'D IT GET BURNED?! HOW'D IT GET BURNED?! HOW'D IT GET BURNED?!
This post was edited on 7/21/11 at 3:15 pm
Posted on 7/21/11 at 3:15 pm to Zamoro10
quote:BOOM MOTHER frickERS!!!
"Salvation lies within" - the rock hammer replaces the Warden's word of God in the Bible - it's up to you to make yourself in this world - you control your life - fairy tales have no place in this world.
Posted on 7/21/11 at 3:36 pm to snake1
quote:
i've always come to the conclusion that APOCALYPSE NOW was another movie about the vietnam experience
Apocalypse Now has very little to do with Vietnam.
Posted on 7/21/11 at 3:39 pm to glaucon
Seventh Sign was pretty hardcore..that been mentioned?
Posted on 7/21/11 at 3:41 pm to Volvagia
quote:
HOW'D IT GET BURNED?!
HOW'D IT GET BURNED?! HOW'D IT GET BURNED?! HOW'D IT GET BURNED?!
When I saw this I read it out loud in Nic Cage's voice and I literally laughed out loud for 5 minutes.
Posted on 7/21/11 at 3:46 pm to glaucon
quote:
Apocalypse Now has very little to do with Vietnam.
The literal War? - I agree...since it mostly deals with the human themes in Heart of Darkness.
Philosophically? Coppola had his own views:
"This isn't a film about Vietnam. This film is Vietnam." - Francis Ford Coppola
This post was edited on 7/21/11 at 3:47 pm
Posted on 7/21/11 at 3:58 pm to Zamoro10
Anti-Pharisaical, or an exposition on the dangers of remaining stuck in Kierkegaard's second of the three categories of humans: the moral, I will give you that, but not anti-religious in any way. It is a movie that condemns hypocrisy and champions faith, hope, and love, just as Jesus.
"Salvation lies within" is a double entendre. Do you think Andy's philosophy of life is anything but biblical? Andy escapes prison/death/bondage (sin), is baptized to a new life, and tastes freedom for the first time in his life. It is a classic Christian literary trope: movement from sin/enslavement -> rite of passage (conversion/baptism) -> freedom. The classic example is Augustine's Confessions, but you find them throughout the last two millennium, lest I should fail to mention Tolstoy's A Confession.
Your statement "the world and your life and all you will ever have is the here and now" is not supported by Andy. Andy operates from a Christian Neoplatonic world view, believing that "no good thing ever dies." His view of the Good being eternal flies in direct opposition of a life that only exists on the plane of the physical present. Get busy living or get busy dying, isn't that the whole of the Gospel of Christ, who is the Truth and the Life and came so that we might have life and life abundant?
"Salvation lies within" is a double entendre. Do you think Andy's philosophy of life is anything but biblical? Andy escapes prison/death/bondage (sin), is baptized to a new life, and tastes freedom for the first time in his life. It is a classic Christian literary trope: movement from sin/enslavement -> rite of passage (conversion/baptism) -> freedom. The classic example is Augustine's Confessions, but you find them throughout the last two millennium, lest I should fail to mention Tolstoy's A Confession.
Your statement "the world and your life and all you will ever have is the here and now" is not supported by Andy. Andy operates from a Christian Neoplatonic world view, believing that "no good thing ever dies." His view of the Good being eternal flies in direct opposition of a life that only exists on the plane of the physical present. Get busy living or get busy dying, isn't that the whole of the Gospel of Christ, who is the Truth and the Life and came so that we might have life and life abundant?
This post was edited on 7/21/11 at 4:01 pm
Posted on 7/21/11 at 4:06 pm to TulaneLSU
You're a neo-post-post-Heideggarian buffoon.
This post was edited on 7/21/11 at 4:07 pm
Posted on 7/21/11 at 4:12 pm to Leauxgan
I wish I was smart enough to understand Leauxgan's insults 
Posted on 7/21/11 at 4:13 pm to Leauxgan
Was Andy more like Moses or Jesus? is a more interesting question than was Shawshank a religious movie?
Posted on 7/21/11 at 4:17 pm to TulaneLSU
He's more like Edmond Dantes
Posted on 7/21/11 at 5:00 pm to snake1
quote:
You're jokin right?
So you're telling me that if i go outside and stand in the rain, that it would be considered a religious moment in my life ...
You're jokin right?
What's sad is you obviously read the other three and were like "yeah I guess they are religious."
Posted on 7/21/11 at 5:00 pm to Leauxgan
quote:
You're a neo-post-post-Heideggarian buffoon.
Ummm..... YEAH!!
Posted on 7/21/11 at 5:10 pm to TulaneLSU
quote:
Anti-Pharisaical, or an exposition on the dangers of remaining stuck in Kierkegaard's second of the three categories of humans: the moral, I will give you that, but not anti-religious in any way. It is a movie that condemns hypocrisy and champions faith, hope, and love, just as Jesus.
"Salvation lies within" is a double entendre. Do you think Andy's philosophy of life is anything but biblical? Andy escapes prison/death/bondage (sin), is baptized to a new life, and tastes freedom for the first time in his life. It is a classic Christian literary trope: movement from sin/enslavement -> rite of passage (conversion/baptism) -> freedom. The classic example is Augustine's Confessions, but you find them throughout the last two millennium, lest I should fail to mention Tolstoy's A Confession.
Your statement "the world and your life and all you will ever have is the here and now" is not supported by Andy. Andy operates from a Christian Neoplatonic world view, believing that "no good thing ever dies." His view of the Good being eternal flies in direct opposition of a life that only exists on the plane of the physical present. Get busy living or get busy dying, isn't that the whole of the Gospel of Christ, who is the Truth and the Life and came so that we might have life and life abundant?
You got that from Vickers, 'Work in Essex County,' page 98, right?
Posted on 7/21/11 at 5:47 pm to Zamoro10
No need for snide remarks. I thought we were having a civil, friendly conversation about the movie. I respect views that are supported with a good argument, even if I may not agree with that view.
Posted on 7/21/11 at 7:52 pm to TulaneLSU
quote:how the frick is that movie not religious? Sure the movie isn't good but it damn sure is religious in nature.
but the movie isn't religious.
Non-believing "preacher" playing off the beliefs of others to make money, basically pisses on God on the entire movie and then witnesses a true life miracle that makes him question his ways...seems pretty religious to me.
Posted on 7/21/11 at 7:53 pm to TulaneLSU
quote:
Best religious movies you've seen?
Purple Rain
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