“Universal principles are communicated through characteristics or actions that are common to all people. If these are absent from a film it will fail. Why? Because our connection to the characters, particularly the protagonist, is what makes stories work. The… — Douglas M. Beaumont Copy Share Image
“But if we have learned anything in the cinema-making efforts of Christians in recent years, it is that you can’t make beautiful movies unless… — Douglas M. Beaumont Copy Share Image
“A student once asked me if I would let a two-year-old watch The Passion of the Christ (2004). I answered in the negative; but I added that I also would not feed a two-month-old infant a steak. Because she doesn’t have any teeth, a two-month-old would probably choke on the steak. This is not because steak is deadly, but simply… — Douglas M. Beaumont Copy Share
“Nudity in art was rarely contested by the church until recently. It was not explicitly condemned until the anti-Protestant Council of Trent in the sixteenth century, and even after the Reformation, the Protestant church continued to support artistic uses of nudity, especially when depicting biblical scenes that might demand it for accuracy.” — Douglas M. Beaumont Copy Share
“It is a shame when a Christian gives an unqualified approval to the positive messages in The 40-Year-Old Virgin or Little Miss Sunshine, but doesn’t even stop to wonder if the crassness in the storytelling method in both those films undermines them. It’s a bigger shame when Christians pan a movie like In the Bedroom because it is about a… — Douglas M. Beaumont Copy Share
“It is the gritty portrayal of the darker side of life that often causes Hollywood’s unpopularity among Christian viewers, but it is the idyllic… — Douglas M. Beaumont Copy Share Image
“Proof for the existence of God cannot come directly from the physical sciences. It’s not that scientists aren’t intelligent people. It’s simply that their knowledge, like everyone else’s, is limited to the areas in which they have been trained. Such issues simply lie beyond the scope of scientific inquiry, which cannot address the existence of an immaterial God. This does… — Douglas M. Beaumont Copy Share
“God gave all the light that people need to see, but He also left enough darkness for those who don’t want to see.” — Douglas M. Beaumont Copy Share Image
“In other words, magic in both The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia is not equivalent to the occult practices in… — Douglas M. Beaumont Copy Share Image
“Unless immoral in the extreme, we should not automatically judge a movie as inappropriate based solely on its method of communication. Nor should we… — Douglas M. Beaumont Copy Share Image
“Whenever we see design, we assume from experience that it came from a designer. We can tell the difference between sand dunes and sand castles, for instance, because we see purposeful design in the castles. None of us would happen upon a sandcastle and believe that it arrived there by chance. Furthermore, when we speak of design we mean a… — Douglas M. Beaumont Copy Share
“While some of the earliest copies of non-biblical writings date to thousands of years later than their originals (Homer’s Odyssey is unusually good; only… — Douglas M. Beaumont Copy Share Image
“Stories are the preferred way human beings learn and define our values. In our stories we find heroes whose larger than life examples make… — Douglas M. Beaumont Copy Share Image
