What films can you think of that exist outside of the Christian media that gives a wonderful illustration of the Gospel? I will start. Bladerunner 2049.
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When you pick a movie, please explain HOW it gives an illustration of the gospel. So Jimmy Holt, please explain HOW Bladerunner 2049 illustrates the gospel.
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Lord of the rings ( the theme, kinda)
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“The Passion of the Christ” which was done by a Catholic and was a secular attempt at dramatizing the events of the hight of the passion week without reference to the humbling implications of the true gospel.
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The Chosen is the best I’ve seen.
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What about The Book of Eli?
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How interesting !! someone else mentioned that Bladerunner symbolized the Gospel message. .. but I didn’t see that theme when I watched it. —
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The clearest depiction I’ve seen of the gospel outside of strictly Christian media is the film adaptation of the first of the great C.S. Lewis books “The Chronicles of Narnia”. Although it toes the line of being blatantly Christian. If you’ve seen the movie you know, but the great lion Aslan is a direct depiction of Christ. The scene of his death and resurrecting is so blatantly the gospel that it almost brings tears to my eyes every time. It’s an absolutely beautiful reminder of the sacrifice our Savior made for us.
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I’ve got one for you:
Pitch Black.
It is the story of Riddick’s redemption.
Everyone is stranded on a planet with evil creatures that come out in the dark (and are afraid of the light), made all the more terrifying because an evil killer, Riddick, escorted by a corrupt marshal, is one of the people stranded with them.
Riddick starts out a hardened criminal who only thinks of himself. Think of the Muslim colonists as just general believers, and the monsters as demons. Riddick is determined to save himself at the expense of everyone else, and is ruthlessly selfish about everything in his life. He even tries to convince the woman captain to abandon everyone, and just the two of them leave on the ship. However, everything changes when the captain sacrifices herself to save Riddick. Suddenly a selfish and self-absorbed man is faced with something he can’t explain: a completely selfless sacrifice.
It changes him as completely as if he were just born again, and he ends up saving everyone else.
There are a couple key lines that really drive this message home. When Riddick places the believers in a small cave, fully intending to abandon them, he mockingly asks them, “Where is your God?”
After he has a complete change of heart, and returns for them, one of the believers says, as he sees Riddick reopen the cave to rescue them, “There’s my God now.”
At the end, as they leave the planet, one of the rescued people asks Riddick what they should tell the authorities who will be searching for him. He tells them to tell the truth, that Riddick died on the planet down there.
The Riddick who used to be is dead. The Riddick who is now is a different man.
A great redemption story triggered by someone else sacrificing themselves for a person who doesn’t deserve it, doesn’t want it, and can’t understand it. Which then turns that person into someone who sets out to save others.
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Return of the Jedi
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Forest Gump?
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The Lion King has some Gospel elements.
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The green mile
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Matrix
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Matrix
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The matrix
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