Random media aside:
May. 12th, 2013 09:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingWatching The Truman Show, which is an excellent movie despite itself.
Was thinking that Truman would have been far easier to control had they added religion, screwing him up from a young age that God didn't WANT certain things to happen or he'd suffer.
But there's at least two major reasons not to do this.
#1: No matter which religion they picked to inflict on Truman, they'd alienate a big chunk of the audience. The "nonspecific American Christianity" they used would poll better, and make more money for the show.
#2: Under no circumstances could Christof[1] POSSIBLY allow any God before Him.
[1]: Ed Harris. And no, that name isn't meaningful. At all.
Was thinking that Truman would have been far easier to control had they added religion, screwing him up from a young age that God didn't WANT certain things to happen or he'd suffer.
But there's at least two major reasons not to do this.
#1: No matter which religion they picked to inflict on Truman, they'd alienate a big chunk of the audience. The "nonspecific American Christianity" they used would poll better, and make more money for the show.
#2: Under no circumstances could Christof[1] POSSIBLY allow any God before Him.
[1]: Ed Harris. And no, that name isn't meaningful. At all.