The Priest who gave the hellfire speech about lust was totally unrealistic. I was raised in the Catholic Church and I never heard anyone give a speech like that. I know, I went to Catholic School and my father was a former priest and he said that scene was unrealistic!!
shareits supposed to be funny... i thought that was obvious...
shareOne of the funniest things about this part is that the priest is trying to put it in the heads of those youngsters that although they have socials (as we called it when I went to catholic school), they do not condone the idea of lust. As if to say, "lust is not allowed here, neither is the thought of sex". Okay, why have coed dances then? The anger and emotion of the priest is amusing because it is so contrived.
shareA lot of my family went to catholic school as well and said it was overblown but it wasn't far off from what they may have said back then. I think it just depends where you went.
shareIt may be a reference to the hellfire speech in Joyce's A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man. Maybe read a book once in a while.
shareOne of the funniest things about this part is that the priest is trying to put it in the heads of those youngsters that although they have socials (as we called it when I went to catholic school), they do not condone the idea of lust. As if to say, "lust is not allowed here, neither is the thought of sex". Okay, why have coed dances then? The anger and emotion of the priest is amusing because it is so contrived.
I thought that speech was one of the funniest movie moments of the '80's: "Lutht is the beatht within each and every one of you!" Priceless.
shareI thought it was funny, even though it's clearly not based in reality. It made me laugh, I love this film.
shareHe spoke more like an evangelical than a priest, i went to catholic school and priests are mostly soft spoken, the ear pulling they do on a student when you get in trouble is true though, i have gotten my ears pulled by priests and Nuns when i did something bad,lol!
shareIt's even crazier they had a Jewish man playing a priest. Wallace Shawn has always been a great comic actor
shareThe Priest who gave the hellfire speech about lust was totally unrealistic
It's absurd that some religious people think that sex is a sin .It's the reason we all exist in the first place,lol !.I can understand cheating being a sin though,whether you are married to someone,or just going out with them.And i can understand sex with someone you don't love being a sin,but not with someone you do love !.
shareAnd i can understand sex with someone you don't love being a sin,but not with someone you do love !.
chill out all you complainers. There was plenty of hellfire and damnation in the bible. It's just the comic exaggeration of that. Relax and enjoy yourselves. I mean enjoy the movie!
As for the person whining about the church being anti-sex, they are NOT! Sex in the married way creates more donors to the collections. It's lust they don't go for. I guess the proper way to turn lust into the right type of sex is practice, practice, practice.
It may have been over the top but the point was real. Catholic schools are very stern about pretty marital or any type of sex out of procreation.
-Di
uuuhhhmm,have we forgotten this is not a documentary???? it's over the top...that's why it's called a comedy. Lighten up.
The scene was supposed to be funny and I thought it was hysterical and the best scene in the Movie!!!!
shareYeah. It was supposed to be funny - and it was funny. Every Catholic (and non-Catholic) school has its eccentrics and crazies, who are driven by extremist ideologies or just plain personal weirdness. Wallance Shawn's character was simply one of these, and the juxtaposition of his puritanical condemnation and paranoia with the innocence of the church dance was a funny touch.
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