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'License to Wed' (marriage license ') released July 4 on American screens. In this romantic comedy, Robin Williams plays a priest who will submit youth engaged in a series of tests and trials as a condition for granting its blessing. Released in France under August 22.

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Dogma: God made the pear




Like Tom Shadyac, mentioned in the previous post, Kevin Smith has made several comedies with some crazy deal head on religious themes, up to represent God himself on screen!

In 1999, we discovered Dogma, in which two fallen angels trapped in Wisconsin and are trying by all means to return to paradise. Outside its usual and many references to popular culture, the film is peppered with references to Biblical stories. Included are angels, fallen or faithful, thirteenth apostle who would love to find its place in the Gospels, two prophets and many other surprises. Besides the representation of modern and original characters, the themes they deal with the turning of trivial conversations are sometimes a surprising gravity. The scene [01: 12: 00] in which a renegade angels (Ben Afflek) launches into a diatribe against humanity, boasting of the unjust suffering of God for human beings rebel indirectly evokes the pain of Lucifer after his fall. Without going so far as to compare Smith to John Milton (Paradise Lost), it must be emphasized that the treatment and course of the two angels is sometimes very deep.

If we look for a moment the idea of God, we find the will to break some traditional performances, as was the case in Bruce Almighty. Shadyac's film, in his incarnation, God is Black (Morgan Freeman). In Dogma, this possibility is raised by Rufus who claims that Jesus is black; about God the Father, it seems that despite the habit, it would be truer to say 'God Mother' since God appears at the end of Film in the guise of singer Alanis Morissette (I read that in the end credits, director thank a feminist theologian °).

Like Bruce Almighty, God of humor. It also says that Metatron (the angel with the voice of God Alan Rickman) in the film when asked how is God: 'God? Solitaire. But funny. He has a great sense of humor! "

It is impossible to mention all the reflections on the strength of the film (especially Catholic, the director who seems to settle some accounts or at least suggest changes) so they are numerous. If these thoughts are so well digested by the contemporary public is that they appear in an unusual and confusing. The film includes a scene in a box of striptease and verbal vulgarities, mainly through the character of Jay, the teen-prophet who swears faster than his shadow, are far from absent. This mixture caused surprise to Kevin Smith of many attacks from some in the Catholic church. Moreover, the controversy spawned a documentary Judge Not: In Defense of Dogma (2001).

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God is a joker



Evan Almighty , presented as the Following Bruce Almighty (Bruce Almighty with Jim Carrey) comes out next week in the United States. It includes Evan Baxter, a former television star presenter worked where Jim Carrey. This time Evan has the main role and gets a big promotion: he was elected to Congress and promised a glorious career! Only God (Morgan Freeman) disrupts these beautiful projects and ask Evan to build an ark in preparation for a new flood.

From the trailer this movie looks very funny and in the same vein as Bruce Almighty. However, while the first film brought a reflection on, among others, human hubris, the desire for power, this result seems to go in the opposite direction. As a true prophet, Evan will have to embark on a path of humility and confidence, the risk of rejection and misunderstanding, to enter his appeal and be an instrument of the salvation of mankind.

Included in this slapstick comedy a representation of God and humorous teacher. Both films Tom Shadyac (a practicing Catholic who has studied film at UCLA) bring together, in a humorous but not sarcastic, a good number of performances or stereotypes about the divine and its mode of action and expression.

It is interesting to note that today this kind of comedy is a good way to approach to the general public, advocacy, action and interaction of God with men. Besides the fact that comedy is a genre has success, the choice of a comic can perhaps be understood both as a way to re-enchant the world but also as a translation of a growing thirst for sacred well that it revisits the story of Noah's Ark as part of a comedy, the film actually deals with this story the greatest respect, thereby rediscover a wider audience cut founders of the great narratives of Judeo-Christianity and dissatisfied with the materialism that dominates our Western culture.

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So, I decided to make a fresh start and to dedicate this blog to the representation of religion in film, hoping to exchange encouraging and challenging!

When I talk about my dissertation topic around me (Preaching in American cinema), most people, certainly those who decipher the word 'preaching', cited at the outset The Night of the Hunter . I do not think this movie was so well known!

If this film comes immediately to mind is probably because it is one of the few that is truly centered on the character of the preacher (you just also think 'The Preacher' by Robert Duvall but is an independent film and much less known than the film Laughton).

I think what I like about this film is that it is primarily a story. A nightmarish tale (as described by its director) certainly, but a tale. This story reminds chiaroscuro probably viewers of adult primitive emotions such as fear of the child in the big bad wolf (I think including two scenes in which Harry Powell is presented as a big bad wolf when he climbs the stairs to the basement and when he cries unreal after leaving John and Pearl on escape their raft). This aspect of storytelling is reinforced by the beginning of the film when the face of Lillian Gish appears transparent on a starry sky and it tells the Bible stories to children attentive and fascinated.

The nightmarish side, dominating the entire first half of the film, is expressed with great visual poetry that reminds one of the illustrations books for children and puppet shows.

Since Harry Powell has been found so evil and fascinating preacher? I do not think. Presumably the John Doe in Seven (Kevin Spacey) who preaches through his murder, but if he believes a mission, it is not identified as religious figure.