THE GOLDEN COMPASS

I remember when “The Passion of the Christ” came out and I personally thought that it was a very good movie. I did not realize that Mel Gibson never did talk out against the anti-Semitism of the movie. I do know that he had an interview about the anti-Semitism against himself. The ideas of Christianity being involved with movies have been an issue for more movies than just “The Passion of the Christ”. In 2007 a movie called “The Golden Compass” came out. The Catholic Church saying that the movie itself was attacking them attacked the Catholic Church. (http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20164193,00.html) The movie was about a 12 year old girl who is trying to save her friends while facing evil. Every person has a demon that expresses the other side of the person, such as the little girl is brave and her demon is scared while she travels on her journey. She also learns about the magic of “Dust”. I find it interesting on how the church can take a simple story that is quite interesting and exciting and turn it into anti- Catholic. This also goes for “The Passion of the Christ” . I mean I don’t even understand what the argument was. Jewish belief says that Jesus was not Christ and history says that their was a profit named Jesus that was in fact nailed to the cross. If they don’t believe it was God then why do they care and its no different than someone making a movie about time in America during the time of slavery. No one comes out and says “HEY! This movies portrays white people persecuting black people” Anyway here is the intro to the Golden Compass: