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The first journal entry
Hmmmm... I have no idea what to say at the moment. When in doubt, plagiarize from Pepys.
"Blessed be God, at the end of the last year I was in very good health, without any sense of my old pain but upon taking of cold. I lived in Axe=yard, having my wife and servant Jane, and no more in family then us three."
Hmmmm.... that's not terribly applicable to my life, is it?
I find the existence of God rather suspect. I can't remember the state of my health last year, but I suspect it was the same "pushing my luck -- really need to lose weight before I leave my mid-thirties" that it is now, and I don't live in Axe=yard with a wife or servant. Instead I live in a bachelor apartment with way, way too much stuff.
I'm debating whether to see the Narnia movie at all. I liked the book as a child, and was fond of the old BBC series. But well, this whole appealing to fundamentalists thing bothers me. Having a movie with a Christian allegory doesn't bother me. It's that this movie is being sponsored by someone who has given money to all sorts of causes that I think are destructive to our society. I'd rather not have the price of my ticket go to buy a sandwich board that some insenstive jerk could wear when picketing the funeral of someone who died from AIDS-related complications. Or to have my money fund forcing religion into the science classroom. Or... well, you get the point.
So, it's the battle between my morals and the big Hollywood merchandising machine. I'm hoping my morals will win out, but well ... I have been working at an insurance company lately. So, I don't think I've been getting enough moral fibre in my diet.
"Blessed be God, at the end of the last year I was in very good health, without any sense of my old pain but upon taking of cold. I lived in Axe=yard, having my wife and servant Jane, and no more in family then us three."
Hmmmm.... that's not terribly applicable to my life, is it?
I find the existence of God rather suspect. I can't remember the state of my health last year, but I suspect it was the same "pushing my luck -- really need to lose weight before I leave my mid-thirties" that it is now, and I don't live in Axe=yard with a wife or servant. Instead I live in a bachelor apartment with way, way too much stuff.
I'm debating whether to see the Narnia movie at all. I liked the book as a child, and was fond of the old BBC series. But well, this whole appealing to fundamentalists thing bothers me. Having a movie with a Christian allegory doesn't bother me. It's that this movie is being sponsored by someone who has given money to all sorts of causes that I think are destructive to our society. I'd rather not have the price of my ticket go to buy a sandwich board that some insenstive jerk could wear when picketing the funeral of someone who died from AIDS-related complications. Or to have my money fund forcing religion into the science classroom. Or... well, you get the point.
So, it's the battle between my morals and the big Hollywood merchandising machine. I'm hoping my morals will win out, but well ... I have been working at an insurance company lately. So, I don't think I've been getting enough moral fibre in my diet.
Hollywood Tripe
But regardless, I haven't heard what's behind that movie.. do tell.
I wasn't going to go and see it; I did enjoy the books as a kid, and would probably have enjoyed the movie as a kid, but doubt I would enjoy either as an adult.
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I still enjoy fantasy films, and think that a really good kids' story is suitable for adults too. The problem with a film like this is ... well, the Narnia films are to the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings movies as Battlestar Galactica or "Battle Beyond the Stars" were to Star Wars. I wouldn't say that Potter or LOTR were independent films - the early Potter movies were particularly corporate - but at least they weren't simply following a trend.
Anschutz's Walden Media is co-producing the film.
According to one news report, among the things that Philip Anschutz has funded besides the Narnia movie are:
"Colorado for Family Values (CFV) -- the organization behind Amendment 2, Colorado's notorious anti-gay constitutional amendment approved by the voters in 1992 and later overturned by the US Supreme Court.
The New York-based Institute for American Values (website), which campaigns for marriage and against single parenting;
Enough is Enough (website), whose President and Chair of its Board of Directors is Donna Rice Hughes (the major figure in the sex scandal that ended the 1987 campaign of Gary Hart, in the Democratic presidential primary). Enough is Enough claims that it is "Lighting the way to protect children and families from the dangers of illegal Internet pornography and sexual predators."
Morality in the Media (website), established in 1962 "to combat obscenity and uphold decency standards in the media.""
And folks like AIDS-picketing jerk James Dobson are heavily promoting this movie. The weirdest thing about that is that these ultra-religious hate groups have been conned into supporting -- and buying mass tickets -- for the most corporate of Hollywood films. Who knew that the entire fundamentalist movement would be such a cheap date?
It's eerie to see religion hijacked into movie promotion.