Video games nowadays do the same thing. The Warcraft series started out as a Tolkienesque good vs evil story, and nowadays they frequently portray the "Holy Light" as always over-zealous and evil, and justify all the villains actions. Modern leftists cannot write good stories because their hearts are so crooked. They take out their hatred for Christ and the Church on good guys from established IP's, such as the Good Witch in the Wizard of Oz. They focus on corrupting established intellectual property because they can corrupt it and it already has an audience who will go see their slop just because the IP is involved.
Nice to see this post, pushing back on moral confusion, thanks.
The original Oz books were illustrated in a way that did not overemphasize the ugliness or beauty of the respective witches. That emphasis was all Hollywood's doing in Technicolor. And we all know that The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland has come to be held in great honor by gay men so there is no surprise a gay man would rewrite it to his purposes, according to his interests.
I'd say Wicked is yet another the distortion of a real Christian message to not judge people by their relative beauty, because what seems beautiful to your eyes may not actually be good for your soul.
"So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate."
The Christian message to not be deceived by appearances is already ably illustrated for children in many "godless" fairy tales, e.g. the beautiful Queen poisons the more beautiful Snow White; the lady who lives in the house built of candy wants to eat children.
New scripts like Wicked take the Christian virtue of looking beyond appearances and sell it to kids, just without the warning that YOU ARE A KID and you should look beyond appearances ONLY WHEN IT SAFE FOR YOU TO DO SO and BECAUSE YOU ARE A KID, YOU CANNOT JUDGE WHEN IT IS SAFE TO DO SO. These new scripts are teaching children that you cannot trust your own eyes... so trust everything the same. Go ahead and climb in the back of the van to look for a lost puppy, sure. Tell all your troubles to the stranger online because... appearances don't matter, and that's what adults (!) believe.
“I cried four times,” said Kali Sheldon, a 28-year-old who left a Friday matinee of the movie in Los Angeles in a head-to-toe green “Wicked” outfit purchased at Target. Her boyfriend wore a “Wicked” T-shirt she bought him for the occasion.
Sheldon has been a “Wicked” fan since her parents surprised her with tickets to the Broadway show for her eighth birthday, and she wasn’t alone in her need to see the movie as soon as possible.
Video games nowadays do the same thing. The Warcraft series started out as a Tolkienesque good vs evil story, and nowadays they frequently portray the "Holy Light" as always over-zealous and evil, and justify all the villains actions. Modern leftists cannot write good stories because their hearts are so crooked. They take out their hatred for Christ and the Church on good guys from established IP's, such as the Good Witch in the Wizard of Oz. They focus on corrupting established intellectual property because they can corrupt it and it already has an audience who will go see their slop just because the IP is involved.
Nice to see this post, pushing back on moral confusion, thanks.
The original Oz books were illustrated in a way that did not overemphasize the ugliness or beauty of the respective witches. That emphasis was all Hollywood's doing in Technicolor. And we all know that The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland has come to be held in great honor by gay men so there is no surprise a gay man would rewrite it to his purposes, according to his interests.
I'd say Wicked is yet another the distortion of a real Christian message to not judge people by their relative beauty, because what seems beautiful to your eyes may not actually be good for your soul.
"So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate."
The Christian message to not be deceived by appearances is already ably illustrated for children in many "godless" fairy tales, e.g. the beautiful Queen poisons the more beautiful Snow White; the lady who lives in the house built of candy wants to eat children.
New scripts like Wicked take the Christian virtue of looking beyond appearances and sell it to kids, just without the warning that YOU ARE A KID and you should look beyond appearances ONLY WHEN IT SAFE FOR YOU TO DO SO and BECAUSE YOU ARE A KID, YOU CANNOT JUDGE WHEN IT IS SAFE TO DO SO. These new scripts are teaching children that you cannot trust your own eyes... so trust everything the same. Go ahead and climb in the back of the van to look for a lost puppy, sure. Tell all your troubles to the stranger online because... appearances don't matter, and that's what adults (!) believe.
“I cried four times,” said Kali Sheldon, a 28-year-old who left a Friday matinee of the movie in Los Angeles in a head-to-toe green “Wicked” outfit purchased at Target. Her boyfriend wore a “Wicked” T-shirt she bought him for the occasion.
Sheldon has been a “Wicked” fan since her parents surprised her with tickets to the Broadway show for her eighth birthday, and she wasn’t alone in her need to see the movie as soon as possible.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/film/wicked-flies-high-on-big-screen-with-114-million-opening-weekend-9e085e51?st=gHMxQT&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink
Ugh. So sadly led astray and getting emotional about this trash.