Dave Griffey's Conversion Thoughts and Crazier Things
Monday, July 4, 2022
One of my favorite scenes
From a movie that would never be made today:
How far we've come and how low we've sunk. Remember, it won't be us who pay the price. It will be the grandchildren of our grandchildren who will receive the full brunt of everything we deserve.
I bet Roger Eggers would be able to make this film. He recently made a movie, the premise of which implyed (by extension, not explicitly) that the Salem Witch Trials had validity to them. He's not afraid to show history from not-PC perspectives. In any case, Hollywood censorship isn't anything new. I doubt a film about the Revolutionary War told from a Tory perspective could have gotten made in the 50s or 60s.
No, it's not new. Every society has its values and expects them to be followed. The problem with the post-war liberal movement is that it rode into town under the banner of 'tolerance, diversity, inclusion, respect for diverse opinions, openness to all ideas, never shutting down free expression', and on and on. Now it makes the fabled Hayes Code seem almost hippie liberal by comparison.
I've seen it. I don't know that it's PC or not really. Its big selling point, at least for those outside the Left, is that he portrays a 17th century puritanical Calvinist family pretty much as is. That is, he doesn't mock or ridicule them. He says this is what their world is, how they see things, what they fear, and what life was like. Ostensibly he drew from historical records and writings to put together the story. It's not really about witch trials or anything. The punch line is that there looks to be a real witch with real witch powers (though even that leaves you guessing at the end, or was it all in her mind?). Thus their fears of the nasty, scary woods appear, on the surface at least, to be vindicated. It's at times disturbing and pretty intense. But very well done and, in a break from modern Hollywood when it comes ot historical drama, balanced and fair.
FWIW, here is a review by Deacon Greydanus. It's pretty fair, and for Deacon Greydanus, almost as fair as the filmaker tries to be with that old culture. https://decentfilms.com/articles/witch
I bet Roger Eggers would be able to make this film. He recently made a movie, the premise of which implyed (by extension, not explicitly) that the Salem Witch Trials had validity to them. He's not afraid to show history from not-PC perspectives.
ReplyDeleteIn any case, Hollywood censorship isn't anything new. I doubt a film about the Revolutionary War told from a Tory perspective could have gotten made in the 50s or 60s.
No, it's not new. Every society has its values and expects them to be followed. The problem with the post-war liberal movement is that it rode into town under the banner of 'tolerance, diversity, inclusion, respect for diverse opinions, openness to all ideas, never shutting down free expression', and on and on. Now it makes the fabled Hayes Code seem almost hippie liberal by comparison.
DeleteBTW, did you mean the movie "The Witch"?
Yes, I was talking about The Witch. Not a very PC film from what I understand
DeleteI've seen it. I don't know that it's PC or not really. Its big selling point, at least for those outside the Left, is that he portrays a 17th century puritanical Calvinist family pretty much as is. That is, he doesn't mock or ridicule them. He says this is what their world is, how they see things, what they fear, and what life was like. Ostensibly he drew from historical records and writings to put together the story. It's not really about witch trials or anything. The punch line is that there looks to be a real witch with real witch powers (though even that leaves you guessing at the end, or was it all in her mind?). Thus their fears of the nasty, scary woods appear, on the surface at least, to be vindicated. It's at times disturbing and pretty intense. But very well done and, in a break from modern Hollywood when it comes ot historical drama, balanced and fair.
DeleteFWIW, here is a review by Deacon Greydanus. It's pretty fair, and for Deacon Greydanus, almost as fair as the filmaker tries to be with that old culture. https://decentfilms.com/articles/witch