Religions > Atheism > Disney Promoting New Movie As "Passion Of The Christ For Kids"!!!
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"Clayton Bush City Limits" |
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07 Apr 2005 06:50:50 AM |
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Disney Promoting New Movie As "Passion Of The Christ For Kids"!!! |
http://www.theage.com.au/handheld/articles/2005/03/06/1110044254715.html
'Christ for kids'
New York
March 14 2005
Walt Disney is to promote its $US100 million ($A126 million) adaptation of
C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as a "Passion of the Christ
for kids" in an attempt to secure worldwide Christian support for the film.
Disney executives have organised private meetings with several church groups
in America to emphasise the themes of Christian redemption and sacrifice
contained in the film, which will open in December with an all-star cast.
They have also hired a public relations company to market the film directly
to Christian groups to ensure that the powerful evangelical movement, which
is particularly strong in America, is happy with the content.
The film, which stars the British actors Tilda Swinton, who will play the
White Witch, and Brian Cox, who will provide the voice of Aslan the lion,
will be the first in a series of Disney blockbusters inspired by the seven
books in the Narnia series, whose author was known for his strong Christian
beliefs.
Lewis made no secret of the fact that the epic children's stories were
Christian allegories and that Aslan, whose death and resurrection is pivotal
to the saga, was a Christ-like figure.
When it emerged in 2001 that Disney would be co-producing the film, there
were fears that the studio and Andrew Adamson, the New Zealand-born director
of the film, who made Shrek and Shrek 2, would produce a secular version of
the book, first published in 1950.
Now, however, some fans of the Narnia novels, which have sold more than 85
million copies worldwide, say that Disney could be in danger of
overemphasising the religious elements of the stories.
Internet message boards set up by Lewis enthusiasts are cluttered with
complaints by people worried about the likely content.
Others have expressed concern that cinemas will be block-booked by
Christians or that audiences will be targeted by evangelicals looking for
converts.
Such protests have, however, gone largely ignored because harnessing the
support of Christian groups is regarded by Hollywood as an important means
of securing box-office success.
America's census bureau said 159 million US citizens describe themselves as
Christians.
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| Title: Re: Disney Promoting New Movie As "Passion Of The Christ For Kids"!!! |
09 Apr 2005 04:54:11 PM |
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Clayton Bush City Limits wrote:
http://www.theage.com.au/handheld/articles/2005/03/06/1110044254715.html
'Christ for kids'
New York
March 14 2005
Walt Disney is to promote its $US100 million ($A126 million)
adaptation of
C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as a "Passion of the
Christ
for kids" in an attempt to secure worldwide Christian support for the
film.
In the Narnia books, the lion Aslan represents Jesus.
I think Walt Disney is trying to recapture its former glory. Their most
successful movie was The Lion King.
So now they are planning The Lion God...
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| User: "*nemo*" |
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| Title: Re: Disney Promoting New Movie As "Passion Of The Christ For Kids"!!! |
07 Apr 2005 09:02:06 AM |
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In article <4254d833$0$5399$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>,
"Clayton Bush City Limits" <cjfat@SPAMBLOCKphonymails.com> wrote:
'Christ for kids'
New York
March 14 2005
Walt Disney is to promote its $US100 million ($A126 million) adaptation of
C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as a "Passion of the Christ
for kids" in an attempt to secure worldwide Christian support for the film.
I bet Walt is spinning in his grave. What on earth led Disney to think
they needed to cater to the xian market?
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| User: "Clayton Bush City Limits" |
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| Title: Re: Disney Promoting New Movie As "Passion Of The Christ For Kids"!!! |
07 Apr 2005 11:05:36 PM |
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"*nemo*" <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote in message
news:nemo0037-DE348C.05030407042005@news1.west.earthlink.net...
In article <4254d833$0$5399$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>,
"Clayton Bush City Limits" <cjfat@SPAMBLOCKphonymails.com> wrote:
'Christ for kids'
New York
March 14 2005
Walt Disney is to promote its $US100 million ($A126 million) adaptation
of
C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as a "Passion of the
Christ
for kids" in an attempt to secure worldwide Christian support for the
film.
I bet Walt is spinning in his grave. What on earth led Disney to think
they needed to cater to the xian market?
Greed!
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| User: "rj" |
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| Title: Re: Disney Promoting New Movie As "Passion Of The Christ For Kids"!!! |
07 Apr 2005 12:35:47 PM |
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*nemo* <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote in
news:nemo0037-DE348C.05030407042005@news1.west.earthlink.net:
In article <4254d833$0$5399$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>,
"Clayton Bush City Limits" <cjfat@SPAMBLOCKphonymails.com> wrote:
'Christ for kids'
New York
March 14 2005
Walt Disney is to promote its $US100 million ($A126 million) adaptation
of C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as a "Passion of
the Christ for kids" in an attempt to secure worldwide Christian
support for the film.
I bet Walt is spinning in his grave. What on earth led Disney to think
they needed to cater to the xian market?
Money. Xtians have money and Disney wants their money. I will never watch
Gibson's "Passion". Why should I watch the ritualistic torture and killing
of a man? There are lots of other thing I could do that would be
constructive. Hell, it isn't even good entertainment. Ice Capades! Now
*that* is entertainment.
rj
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"I'm an atheist, thank God." - Dave Allen
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| User: "The Arch Atheist" |
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| Title: Re: Disney Promoting New Movie As "Passion Of The Christ For Kids"!!! |
07 Apr 2005 02:43:33 PM |
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On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 12:35:47 GMT, rj <rj@yahoo.com> wrote:
Money. Xtians have money and Disney wants their money. I will never watch
Gibson's "Passion". Why should I watch the ritualistic torture and killing
of a man? There are lots of other thing I could do that would be
constructive. Hell, it isn't even good entertainment. Ice Capades! Now
*that* is entertainment.
I arrived at much the same conclusion. Still haven't seen passion,
doubt I ever will, unless it's on TV, and I'm doing something on the
puter, like playing a drawn out strategy game or something.
Anywho, republiscums don't have that much money. Not as much as
demorats do. Thing is republiscums are a harder market to reach
becaues of their bizarre, inane, moral shopping habbits.
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| User: "The Arch Atheist" |
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| Title: Re: Disney Promoting New Movie As "Passion Of The Christ For Kids"!!! |
07 Apr 2005 12:16:01 PM |
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On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 09:02:06 GMT, *nemo*
<nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote:
I bet Walt is spinning in his grave. What on earth led Disney to think
they needed to cater to the xian market?
Money. They've been very successful with promoting themselves to the
moral misfits who voted for Bush as having "no violence, no sex, and
no inappropriate or immoral content".
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