I didn't expect this:
Is Book Of Eli A Christian Movie? We Ask The Hughes Bros.
This is gonna get a lot of critics into a frenzy.
I mean, some of them still haven't recovered from Passion of the Christ!
Albert Hughes:
If you talk about anything sacred, you have handle it right. You can't just go in there and make a movie and be careless about it because you are stepping on people's beliefs. You can't go into something like that being silly about it, no matter what you believe.
Smart man, even if his later answers seem to suggest a very confused rationale for the film.
[video=youtube;bp4LTEy-jWU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp4LTEy-jWU&feature=player_embedded[/video]
Oooh...I wanted to see how that ended!
This interview does make me a bit more interested in the story. It seems like they are going for a vague treatment of the classic
A Canticle for Leibowitz. That could be interesting. However, like I mentioned above, the Hughes brothers answered some of the religiosity questions in peculiar, contradictory, and scoffing ways. This makes me suspicious as to whether or not they really knew what they were doing when they made the movie. Either that or they are now trying to save face in such a secular town as Hollywood.
Guess I'll just have to wait and see how this plays out.
(btw: have you noticed how Passion of the Christ has been left off every "best films of the decade" list, despite that fact that it won multiple awards and grossed a fortune?)
