Religious diversity in film

1. Religious diversityin film Autumn Mariano Jaime Naylor David Gentry Grant Parker Cory Behunin

2. Religion in Hollywood • Hollywood portrays religion in three different lights. • Demonize: Portrays religion in a negative light. • Glorify: Shows religion in a positive light. • Satirize: Uses religion for comedy.

3. DaVinci CodeDemonize • In the name of religion, people • do bad things. • You’re on unreligious expert, Robert Langdon’s side. • Once again the religious people seem crazy.

4. Angels & Demons This film demonizes religion by showing that some people will do terrible things in the name of God, or if they believe it is the will of God. This can range from small things like arguments among a few people, to murder and wars Example from film: one priest arranges for the murder of four Cardinals as part of a plan to unite the Catholic Church

5. This film portrayed the Catholic Church as being very traditional and having a lot of rules. “Our ancient traditions are threatened by a modern world.” In this film, some members of the church felt like they needed to do whatever was necessary to protect the traditions of the church. Is it possible for religion to exist in our modern society?

6. Science vs. Religion This film does a good job of addressing the struggles between science and religion The Illuminati are a group of enlightened scholars who were dedicated to scientific truth. They were persecuted for questioning the church on scientific matters. Can science and religion peacefully coexist?

7. Ghost Rider • Johnny Blaze sold his soul to the devil. • Needs to get a contract for the devil worth a thousand souls. • Goes against Blackheart.

8. The Crucible

9. Edward Scissorhands

10. Fiddler on the RoofGlorify • You’re on the Jews side. • Everyone else seems bad because they aren’t religious. • Makes their religion seem better than everyone else's.

11. Schindler’s List This film glorifies the Jewish faith by showing how determined people were to stick to their beliefs even through the hardships of the holocaust

12. Saints and Soldiers • World War II and the Malmedy massacre. • Deacon is the “churchy” soldier. • Gould is against Deacons beliefs but is curious. • Gould takes deacons book.

13. BEN HUR A Tale of the Christ

14. 7 Years in Tibet

15. Evan AlmightySatirize • Unfair light, because Noah • is portrayed as an idiot. • Insensitive to Christian views • Makes religious people seem weird or crazy.

16. Bruce Almighty This film satirizes religion by portraying God in a very casual way, and showing us how hilarious it would be if Jim Carrey had all of God’s powers. “God, why do you hate me?” Bruce believes that God is ignoring him because he’s been running into some bad luck lately. So, God gives all of his powers to Bruce to see if he could do a better job.

17. Bruce answers prayers by giving everyone what they want because it’s a quick fix. • After that turns out to be chaotic, Bruce learns a valuable lesson. People can “be the miracle” and do things for themselves if they just put in a little hard work. “People want me to do everything for them, but what they don’t realize is that they have the power.”

18. Dogma

19. Life of Brian • Brian is mistaken to be Christ. • He spends his life as Christ would have. • Brian was persecuted like Christ was. • And died as Christ did.

20. Monty Python and The Quest for the Holy Grail