This blog post really should have come earlier. When I started this blog series on how literally showing God or angels in movies may always feel cheesy and therefore we should consider alternate ways to talk about the divine, I mentioned two writers who've really influenced this series: Roy Anker and Paul Schrader. Anker argued …
This blog series started by arguing writers may not be able to show divine encounters in a movie without it seeming cheesy. One way to get around this is show God or angels but focus the film on our inability to fully understand him. We can talk about how strange or even funny holy beings seem …
To sum up this blog series in a nutshell, divinity is hard for humans to relate to. This creates an interesting question for filmmakers: can you make movies where God or angels show up and keep them from seeming cheesy or absurd? There may be several ways to get around this problem. You can lean into …
Thus far in this blog series, I've suggested that maybe you can't make a movie where God or angels literally show up without it seeming somehow cheesy, absurd. I've suggested that you can get around that by embracing that sense of absurdity, talking about the existence of evil in contrast to God, talking about the strangeness of …
Thus far, we've talked in this blog series about the idea it's hard to show God or angels literally showing up in a movie without it seeming absurd. Demonic evil may be something we can understand, but divine goodness is hard to translate into a story about the natural world. In the last post in this …
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