wow another white male "Christian" abusing women...

This is a town in the old wild west. The whole town is not gonna follow some brown guy as an authority figure and hang on to and listen to his every word.  It's just not believable. He wouldn't have passed the paper bag test to even be let inside the town. Kit Harrington would have ran him out of there. Dakota Fanning's character certainly wouldn't have entertained the thought of even being in the same room as him, let alone let her child be influenced by him as a moral authority.

They'd have to change the whole setting of the movie if you want to do it with different characters. Um...nobody in the US wants to watch a movie set in the middle east with an all Muslim cast, especially main characters. There aren't any movies with middle easterners as heroes, or even sidekicks. So what are you beetching about? There's hundreds of movies where a white guy is a main character and not a preacher. Like pretty much all of them, for example. Do you think a terrorist movie will sell more tickets than a cowboy western? I swear people on imdb are ridiculous sometimes.

How did you get through reading The Scarlet Letter in high school English class without flying into a rage and feeling like a victim? I mean, that book was written in 1850 and it's about a white woman heroine who gets treated like crap by male preachers lol. This movie with Dakota Fanning is pretty much a retelling of Scarlet Letter.

Western market is predominantly Christian or lapsed, regardless the market is pretty familiar with Christian history.

Setting a movie with themes, characters, events that western audiences are familiar with makes it more marketable, as it is more relatable for the audience.

Foreign cinema, even when it apes western style, usually has so many cultural differences it rarely appeals to westerners, barring the odd exception.


Getting mad that they're bashing Christianity yet again is understandable, however rather than seeing it as a Hollywood elite attacking theism, you could see it as Hollywood lacking the backbone to try something truly new, instead making movies by committee and ticking boxes

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How low can adults sink?? Just ask Sinister. He loves comics and hates women.

Shut your pie hole

"Why not make a similar story-line with a MUSLIM IMAN sexually molesting young boys?"

Because that is not the society we live in. Hollywood, the US, the western world make a predominantly judeo-christian society, which by the grace of Enlightenment has developed into a secular society in which the Church and the State are separate entities. Thank god.

We don't make many buddhist movies either, here in the western world; nor do we contemplate the virtues or vices of hinduism or sun-worshipping in our literature. If someone wants to make a movie about a sexually deviant imam (not iman), it will probably be a (former) muslim.

That is not Martin Koolhoven. You can't take it ill of a Dutch guy from The Hague and the catholic province of Brabant that he doesn't tell a story about the fringe islamic world. It would not be interesting.

In the mean time, we criticize and mock our christian heritage. Please see that as a virtue, not a vice. It is the best we can do - and our clergy deserves it every bit. Did you read about the number of young victims of catholic priests in Australia last week?

You want to shed an equally critical light on islam? Fine with me. Let's put our hopes on some critical (ex-) muslim for that.

Are you kidding? No films show muslims in a negative light? Muslims are shown almost exclusively in a negative light in films and will usually be shown as terrorists.

In all fairness, he may have called himself a Christian but he was no man of God. He was pure evil.

Exactly!