Only in America can this be “too controversial”.
Author: Sterling Heltzel | Filed under: Uncategorized
It is worth noting before I begin on my post y vent that the most recent polling done by Gallup indicates that only 39% of Americans believe in evolution. This of course means that the majority of Americans do not believe in science while simultaneously believing in omnipotent cloud people. I have very little beef with the latter but the former is inexcusable and makes my blood boil, and will have no hesitation in telling you off about it. Charles Darwin is for absolutely no reason, one of the most hated men in all of history as far as Americans see it, and he might as well just be Hitler McSatanstalin. While every other country with a film market has had distribution locked for the Paul Bettany/Jennifer Connelly film Creation, which details Darwin’s struggle between faith and reason which he chronicles in The Origin of Species. The film itself sounds in no way to actually be controversial, and yet it’s being painted as the “most controversial film at the Toronto Film Festival”, yes, even over Antichrist. And that’s because…people are retarded and deserve to have their faces punched in the face.
The Christian community tries to paint Darwin as a crock theorist who in the end, only created eugenics and is “a racist, a bigot and an 1800s naturalist whose legacy is mass murder”. His “half-baked theory” directly influenced Adolf Hitler and led to “atrocities, crimes against humanity, cloning and genetic engineering.” That’s right, according to movieguide.org, Darwin is Satan. Roll snare drum. Everyone laugh. The film is starting all sorts of debate on Christian websites, and the consensus on all of them is that “EVOLUTION ISN’T SUPPORTED BY ANYTHING SCIENCE IS LYING HEY LOOK SKY ZOMBIE.”
Oscar-winning producer of the film Jeremy Thomas is in disbelief of it. “That’s what we’re up against. In 2009. It’s amazing,” he said.
“The film has no distributor in America. It has got a deal everywhere else in the world but in the US, and it’s because of what the film is about. People have been saying this is the best film they’ve seen all year, yet nobody in the US has picked it up. It is unbelievable to us that this is still a really hot potato in America. There’s still a great belief that He made the world in six days. It’s quite difficult for we in the UK to imagine religion in America. We live in a country which is no longer so religious. But in the US, outside of New York and LA, religion rules.
“Charles Darwin is, I suppose, the hero of the film. But we tried to make the film in a very even-handed way. Darwin wasn’t saying ‘kill all religion’, he never said such a thing, but he is a totem for people.”
The film has received raves at Toronto and is a BBC Films/UK Film Council production. The Hollywood Reporter said: “It would be a great shame if those with religious convictions spurned the film out of hand as they will find it even-handed and wise.”
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