
Box Office Profit Won't Make Paganism One Of Our Favourite Things
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Title: BOX OFFICE PROFIT WON'T MAKE PAGANISM ONE OF OUR FAVOURITE THINGS Two things followed immediately upon this column's assertion last week that Avatar needs a more interesting plot to match its visual splendour: 1) Avatar became the highest-grossing film in Australian history, selling $69 million worth of tickets in four weeks; 2) Cardinal ...
I'm not sure on how Avatar is associated with the obvious accusation of trying to push Paganism on people? True it is native culture, which has their own tribal superstitions and beliefs, but that's true of most any native tribal society - if it wasn't about natives and their ways, maybe it wouldn't have what some people is a "Pagan message", but then if it wasn't about natives, then it would be a different movie - it had Paganistic themes because that's how tribes ARE.
I think many box office movies today are set in fantasy and have many pagan ties. It is much more interesting and keeps peoples attention more. The idea of the movie is to take you away from reality and bring you to a magical place. It just happens that writers imagine a fantasy world which seems strikingly similar to a pagan one. Is this deliberate or just part of telling a story more effectively?