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The only religious person in the book and film is the villain. King has a history of portraying Christians in a bad light. I personally thinks it is stretching it to claim a Jesus analogy. It’s about survival and long term planning. Red is an Irish man in the book, so no white saviour thing going on. A ginger Irish man is about the whitest you can get!
You’re not getting me to Google Top Ten Christian films either 😂
We're not talking about the short story though, we're talking about the film. They're different things.
@zippy, the captain shouts “tauchen, tauchen das U-boat” as they’re setting off and then navigates toward the u-boat pen using the periscope 🤷♂️<!--more-->
We’re not talking about the short story though, we’re talking about the film. They’re different things.
but the point stands that, whatever you think, it is not a *blatant* Christian film and most of the stuff you read online is just conjecture.
And, TBF, does it matter even if that was the intention of the film/director - it’s still a great film.
That’s some tedious link to Christianity.
Her'e the Wikipedia analysis of the film
The Gospel Coalition - they think it pretty much "stands up" after 25 years
Screen Rant's explanation
Medium think's Andy is "A man without Sin"
I could go on, there's page after page of these. I'm genuinely surprised that folks are surprised by the fact that this film has been widely interpreted to be Christian allegory. I thought it was common knowledge. Whether you think the film is great or not, the Christ imaginary is coincidental or conjecture (It's filled with biblical quotes for instance), it is interpreted that way by critics and Christians and Darabont said himself that he feels people should find their own meaning in it.
It's filled with biblical quotes from the bad guys. Andy isn't Jesus, he's a soft banker who did hard time for a crime he didn't commit, coerced into financial misconduct by a Christan zealot.
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@zippy, the captain shouts “tauchen, tauchen das U-boat” as they’re setting off and then navigates toward the u-boat pen using the periscope 🤷♂️<!–more–>
@thestabiliser Indeedy, but according to the film script they only dive to periscope level, which Indie ties himself to with his whip. TBH it falls down as that era sub don't stay below the surface, so the crew would have found Indie (or his cold dead body)
Darabont said himself that he feels people should find their own meaning in it.
Exactly – and Christians are finding a Christian meaning in it. Either way, as I have said already, it isn't 'blatant' but it's still a great film. Just like Christmas can be fun even if you don't believe in god.
see also The Fast and the Furious and the number of gear changes required to drive a car in a straight line.
Saw a reddit post about a scene from one the the FnF movies, they'd worked out that the runway(?) was about 18 miles long and they had a gear box with 20+ ratios.
All the high-end gear the PMC's have in Tomb Raider but no plasti-cuffs? Nah, lets just carry around bulky hemp rope instead. 😂
it isn’t ‘blatant’ but it’s still a great film
I've seen it once, and I thought it was pretty obvious, I 've got to say. In the same way that Aliens can be interpreted as a Vietnam war film, some reviewers have said that Lee Unrich put a Holocaust storyline in Toy Story 3, critics have suggested that High Noon is a reaction to McCarthyism, Paul Verhoeven is particularly open about this, Robo-cop is another Jesus allegory, Starship Troopers is an anti Fascist film, and Showgirls is about the dangers of ice cubes...
Anyway...How do the Gremlins know what time zone they're in?
You can have combat consultants as technical advisors on set, you can even have actors who trained with FBI hostage rescue teams to make them realistic… but with 20 takes and 5 camera angles, that doesn’t get reflected in the editing room floor where they go for what looks cooler.
Unless you are talking about _that_ scene in Heat, which contains all the good action you could ever want, AND mag changes.
In most films though, the lack of proper drills and tactics annoys me, especially when you are told the character is "former special forces Marine Scout sniper cook weapons demo expert lawyer" or some other BS, but still holds their chrome Glock sideways.
Said it before, landmines that appear to not function when you actually step on them, they only appear to work when you remove your foot from them, there are entire movies about this.
Unless you are talking about _that_ scene in Heat, which contains all the good action you could ever want, AND mag changes.
See also 12 Strong, Land of Bad, The Covenant, 13 Hours, Triple Frontier. Even the bloody John Wick movies observe some fundamental weapon drills.
Said it before, landmines that appear to not function when you actually step on them, they only appear to work when you remove your foot from them, there are entire movies about this.
See also vehicles that immediately explode as a result of small arms fire.
Even the bloody John Wick movies observe some fundamental weapon drills.
They've actually made bullet proof suit jackets? Cool. 🤣
some reviewers have said that Lee Unrich put a Holocaust storyline in Toy Story 3,
Certainly a lot darker if you cut to the closing credits a little too soon
They’ve actually made bullet proof suit jackets? Cool. 🤣
Read my post again. Slowly. 😉
See also vehicles that immediately explode as a result of small arms fire.
To be fair to all of this, if they stuck to the actual physical characteristics of OME it would make for some boring film scenes, same with aircraft, loved Top Gun Maverick, but it was horrific for accuracy, ejection at mach 10 and he just needs some water, the whole reasoning for F18s, TLAMs going over the aircraft, etc, etc, but it was a fun watch 😁
a lot of these aren't so much plot-holes, just "unrealistic physics"... and that Tomb Raider pic above ^^^ reminded me of a classic example!
How common is it for the hero/damsel in distress etc to have to dead-hang off of something for a significant amount of time before awaiting rescue? It's a hell of a lot harder than Hollywood would have you believe! Especially one-handed (try it!) [b]Especially[/b] one-handed, holding [I]onto[/I] someone or something with the other hand - realistically impossible for someone who is not extremely strong!!
The Martian, while otherwise a great film with lots of good science, the reason for them abandoning Watney (Matt Damon) in the first place doesn't stack up.
The atmosphere of Mars is really thin, pressure is less than 1% of Earth's so the Martian wind would need to be supersonic to have any chance of blowing the MAV over.
Robo-cop is another Jesus allegory
You have missed out Life of Brian! (And obviously Narnia)
And to get back to your original point that you have no real understanding why "otherwise normal seeming folk" might enjoy a Jesus allegory film, maybe consider the fact that the central message(s) behind the Jesus story is actually quite good morally and therefore appeals to normal folk.
I remember once seeing an interview which Michael Palin, and someone else in the Monty Python team, gave in which Palin explained that before the start of writing the script a team of writers went through the bible looking for material to poke fun at.
They soon realised that Jesus was actually a good guy whose message/teachings were fundamentally sound and didn't really provide them with any useful material, which I believe was the reason that they decided to make the film about someone who wasn't the Messiah.
I keep clicking on this thread to give the advice of 'roughly the size of the screw shank'
I keep clicking on this thread to give the advice of ‘roughly the size of the screw shank’
I read that as ‘roughly the size of the shaw shank’ and got very confused.
make the film about someone who wasn’t the Messiah.
S'not really a plot hole though, I think you may have missed the point of the thread there.
Not it wasn't a plot hole. It was a response to your comment concerning otherwise normal seeming folk enjoying a Jesus allegory film, I get the point of the thread.
Robo-cop is another Jesus allegory
And similar has been said about The Matrix.
Surprised nobody has mentioned Signs thus far, I mean why travel to a planet mostly covered by something which would destroy you, has it vapourised in the air and rains randomly from the sky, and then strut around bollocko?
However the religion comments above reminded me that I read a fan theory (apparently endorsed by the director) that they're not aliens but in fact demons in the biblical sense. And it's not just water but "holy" water that hurts them...I mean it sounds like a load of face saving arse but there we go.
Surprised nobody has mentioned Signs thus far,
The first half was great. The second half was rubbish. I always assumed that Mel Gibson only agreed to do it if it hammered away on the religious themes.
See also vehicles that immediately explode as a result of small arms fire.
I think it's Fitzcarraldo, where a muzzle loading cannon rolls away down a hillside and explodes. A cast metal cannon, on a wooden carriage, with no hint of explosive or flammable material about it.
That’s some tedious link to Christianity.
I think you mean "tenuous"?
Christians are finding a Christian meaning in it
Of course they are, it's what they do. "This morning, I had a boiled egg and dippy soldiers for breakfast. And you know, in a way, it made me think of the Lord..."
Oh, and while we're on the subject, the decision to just cut Paul McGann's character (Golic) out of the 2nd half of Alien 3. However, I hear he's been restored to a recently released cut.
On Breaking Bad, Walter White is a genius chemist who's stolen work contributed to a Nobel Prize. Major parts of the plot center around the need to source the precursor chemicals required to produce crystal meth, but a chemist with his level of knowledge could produce those precursors himself, he wouldn't need to source them from outsiders.
Lethal Weapon II - Murtaugh is sat on a toilet packed with explosives but, when they go off, the toilet (cistern and all) lands, completely undamaged, on a car outside.
a chemist with his level of knowledge could produce those precursors himself, he wouldn’t need to source them from outside
That’s not how chemistry works. He might be able to produce the precursors in theory but in practice it may be, expensive, time consuming and take a lot of expensive equipment. It would be like someone who wanted to bake cake illegally deciding to make his ”precursors” butter, flour, and sugar, by setting up a farm to produce wheat, eggs milk, and sugar beet, and setting up a sugar plant to make the crystalline sugar, a mill to make the flour and a dairy and cold store to make the butter. All without drawing attention to himself.
No, as a chemical engineer I thought Breaking Bad was pretty good about the production aspects, but perhaps understated the marketing problems.
It would be like someone who wanted to bake cake deciding to make his ”precursors” butter, flour, and sugar, by setting up a farm to produce wheat, eggs milk, and sugar beet, and setting up a sugar plant to make the crystalline sugar, a mill to make the flour and a dairy and cold store to make the butter.
And blog about it. Bloody hipsters.
Marcellus Wallace employing Vincent Vegas as a trusted enforcer. His level of incompetence and ability to escalate situations is incredible. Literally everything he does he screws up.
Rooster in Top Gun: Maverick looks remarkably young for a chap who was a toddler in 1985, when he was featured in the original film…
I don't think this is a plot hole. In Top Gun: Maverick it is only said that Maverick has 'Thirty-plus years of service'. It seems reasonable that means no more than 33. He was already a fully-qualified pilot in the first film, which seems to indicate a minimum of 4 years in the US Navy. So it's a maximum of 29 years later. And Miles Teller was 34 when the film came out, so it seems to work, independent of the year either film was set.
Also where did Indy hide on the submarine? Or did he just hold his breath while it crossed the Adriatic?
This actually has an answer: he tied himself to the periscope, which remained above water: https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/4060/how-did-indiana-jones-manage-to-follow-marion-to-the-island.
Not the Adriatic though - it was from near Sicily to somewhere in the Aegean.
I can't be bothered to read the whole thread but has anyone mentioned Highlander 2? The plot holes to end all plot holes.
In Star Wars how has everyone forgot about the Jedi Knights only 20 years after a war they were at the centre of?
It would be like no-one could remember anything about WW2 special forces in the 1960's.
In Star Wars how has everyone forgot about the Jedi Knights only 20 years after a war they were at the centre of?
Perhaps Old Ben did mind control on everyone 'these are not the droids you are looking for' style.
I can’t be bothered to read the whole thread but has anyone mentioned Highlander 2? The plot holes to end all plot holes.
I've spoken about this before but Highlander 2 was a very troubled film. It's worth reading the story about it. Amongst other things, the country they were filming in (Argentina?) went bankrupt whilst they were filming, and it was one of those where the studio wouldn't stop interfering.
The director has revisited it a few times. There's a "renegade edition" which fixes a number of the major problems, and a subsequent director's cut where he's patched up what he can from the cutting room floor and CGI. I had the former on VHS for a while but it got tossed when I got rid of all my videos. If anyone knows where I can get hold of the director's cut, I'm all ears. It's never going to be a great movie, but it's better than the dumpster fire that aired in the cinema (and even that was better than what the US got lumbered with).