Hollywood Hates Nuns

Townhall.com ^ | September 7, 2012 | Brent Bozell

[IronJack]

One was a demented crusader whose career suffered due to an obsession with one criminal.

The other was a fictional character.

You understand my confusion ...

[Bratch]

Don't forget Mary Tyler Moore.

[delcopatriot]

FYI ~ people you refer to as ‘Nuns’ are actually ‘Sisters’. A Nun is cloistered; which means she chose to live her life secluded from the world.

The only way to see an actual Nun would be to enter into a cloistered community...

[Venturer]

Doesn’t sound much like this is a remake of the “Belles of St. Mary’s.”

Jessica Lange couldn’t carry Ingrid Bergmans Habit.

[Wilum]

Just couldn’t give her the respect to call her Sister

[Mrs. Don-o]

Borges, I had the same reaction you did. At the beginning of "Dead Man Walking" I was pretty solidly anti-death-penalty. But he end I had serious doubts. It's clear that the condemned man, Matthew Poncelet, really IS a remorseless murderer, and that he is in gravest moral danger because he won't admit, even to himself, let alone repent, the despicable thing he did.

The dramatic tension of the story comes from "Will he admit the truth, and will he repent?" By the very end it becomes clear (at least to me) that it's only the pressure of his inmpending execution (plus Sr. Helen's truth/goodness influence) that moves him across the line to admitting guilt and sorrow.

The execution turned out to be a spiritual benefit for Poncelet. Very paradoxical. And wasn't it so for Dismas?

[An American In Dairyland]

I don’t go to movies but that is beside the point. The issue I raised is that Hollywood was not portraying nuns negatively back when that film was made...quite the contrary. It always revolves around their political agenda. Yesterday nuns were good. Today...

[Borges]

That film was made in the mid 1990s so I don’t see much of an ideological shift since then. Also, as I mentioned, that fim was not political in any meaningful sense. If you haven’t seen it you shouldn’t make comments about its’ content.

[An American In Dairyland]

Don’t tell me what I should or shouldn’t do. You sound like a Democrat. Also you don’t have the final say on what is or isn’t significant. Again you sound like a Democrat.

[trisham]

Sick.

[Borges]

LOL I don’t know what Democrats have to do with this discussion. If you haven’t seen the film then you are speaking out of pure ignorance. It was on many critics’ lists of that year’s beat films.

[GOPJ]

The women who devout themselves to the Lord and church or the dykes who serve for “social justice”?

The dykes who serve for social justice would not be of interest to Hollywood... those women don't have far to fall. Hollywood hungers for the devout and virtuous to be compromised and corrupted.