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"I can't think of a more effective way to annoy and alienate most moviegoing Americans than to show two cowboys lusting after each other," Knight said on his group's website. "It's a mockery of the western genre embodied by every movie cowboy from John Wayne to Gene Autry to Kevin Costner."
Knight contrasted Brokeback Mountain with The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, a family-oriented film with underlying Christian themes.
"That's why it will make zillions while Brokeback will impress the critics and some fringe audiences in urban centres, but that's about it," Knight said. From here (an actually interesting article from MSN!!!)
*rage* No, Narnia is a very well-known story with tons of special effects, and is a family movie coming out at Christmas, so it will make "zillions." Brokeback Mountain is a well-known style of story, but not one that you'd take a family to (did parents take their kids to see The Notebook?) Because it's a love story starring well-respected actors, but not celebrities who are plastered all over the tabloids, it will appeal to fewer people, potentially resulting in lower box office numbers. And if Christian themes have more to do with box office numbers than anything else, what does the fact that Harry Potter will make more money than Narnia mean? Maybe the "occult" themes are better than the Christian themes for box office power.
I really want to see both those movies the annoying Robert Knight, director of Concerned Women for America's Culture and Family Institute (a man directing a women's group?!?) talked about. But does it make me a bad person that I really want to see Brokeback Mountain because it will "annoy and alienate most moviegoing Americans"?
*rubs hands with glee*
How many more weeks till it opens here?
Knight contrasted Brokeback Mountain with The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, a family-oriented film with underlying Christian themes.
"That's why it will make zillions while Brokeback will impress the critics and some fringe audiences in urban centres, but that's about it," Knight said. From here (an actually interesting article from MSN!!!)
*rage* No, Narnia is a very well-known story with tons of special effects, and is a family movie coming out at Christmas, so it will make "zillions." Brokeback Mountain is a well-known style of story, but not one that you'd take a family to (did parents take their kids to see The Notebook?) Because it's a love story starring well-respected actors, but not celebrities who are plastered all over the tabloids, it will appeal to fewer people, potentially resulting in lower box office numbers. And if Christian themes have more to do with box office numbers than anything else, what does the fact that Harry Potter will make more money than Narnia mean? Maybe the "occult" themes are better than the Christian themes for box office power.
I really want to see both those movies the annoying Robert Knight, director of Concerned Women for America's Culture and Family Institute (a man directing a women's group?!?) talked about. But does it make me a bad person that I really want to see Brokeback Mountain because it will "annoy and alienate most moviegoing Americans"?
*rubs hands with glee*
How many more weeks till it opens here?