Catholic invents conspiracy
Vatican-backed historian, Franco Cardini, is the latest person to start imagining that the rest of the world cares about hios particular set of superstitions. And he’s got the paranoia to prove it (via):
Writing in Avvenire, the official organ of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, Franco Cardini said that [Elizabeth: The Golden Age] formed part of a “concerted attack on Catholicism” by atheists and “apocalyptic Christians”.
Professor Cardini, who holds the chair of medieval history at Florence University and formerly taught at the Lateran University in Rome, a Vatican body, said that its aim was to “secularise and de-Christianise” Europe.
So that’s “apocalyptic Christians” want to “secularise and de-Christianise” Europe. To say I’m a little less than convinced here would be something of an understatement, but Cardini goes on:
“[A] film which so profoundly and perversely falsifies history cannot be judged a good film”
I’m not going to suggest that the good professor should see U-571, Pearl Harbor or 300, but I do think he needs to get out more.
Sunday 04 Nov 2007 | Paul | Random film talk, Religion
This cracks me up!
And speaking of U-571 & Pearl Harbor (the later being the only flick I have ever walked out of before the end, in spite of practically being a Kate Beckinsale fetishist)…to suggest someone sees them would count as ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ as I think they are two of the worst movies, not just war movies, I have ever seen. Both were a pile of bollocks covered in elephant turds.
300 is a bit different… yes, like U-571 and Pearl Harbor it is a complete historical travesty (an agnostic king of ‘freedom loving’ Spartans? Sparta was utterly totalitarian state *obsessed* with religion. Bare chested hoplites? War Rhinos? Mutant Persians?), but in truth it was not really a ‘movie about the battle of Thermopylae’, contrary to what might seem to be the case, but rather the-movie-of-the-graphic-novel-300… and on that level it works rather well. It was an excuse to make a cartoon with real people and I think it needs to be seen that way. It was about the imagery, nothing more.