Disney’s “A Wrinkle in Time,” starring Oprah, is getting crucified by the critics. Crucified is a good word, because the movie is based on a book which relied heavily on The Bible to drive the main theme- good versus evil.
The writer who adapted the script, and wrote out references to God, Jesus, The Bible, scripture, said, and I quote, “we have progressed as a society and we can move onto the other elements.”
The story is about a girl that has to travel through time to find her father, a scientist. In the book, the girl finds strength in The Bible. She even asks a friend to read her a bedtime story- passages from the Book of Genesis.
All gone in the movie.
The protagonist finds shtrenff by conversing with Oprah, who plies her with pagan mumbo jumbo, like a low-rent Obi TON Kenobi.
Christian Post-
The screenwriter said the Disney version celebrates inclusiveness and diversity, and argued that including Bible verses and other Christian elements would stray from that. “I can’t put words in [Madeleine L’Engle’s] mouth — and I worked with one of our producers, Catherine Hand, who was very close to her — but that wasn’t her intention. Her intention was looking at the ordinary real hero in an extraordinary situation,” she said. “The power of love in this world, and we stayed very true to that. And her lens through it was Christianity and everyone has a different lens in.”
She added, “That’s what inclusiveness is to me in this film, is really looking at all of us have a role to play in this no matter where we come from or what we look like.”
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If Oprah is in it it has to be good!
Isn’t this cultural appropriation on many levels?
I love all of L’Engle’s books. Stripping Christianity from Wrinkle in Time is cutting its heart out. Such a travesty.
So inclusiveness means excluding all things Christian. Got it.
Did they use the same make up artist that was used in “Harry and the Hendersons”?
Not at all surprised that Disney is behind this. Walt is spinning in his grave at 6000 RPM.
Ultimately, there is good and evil in this context. To move on from good to “other elements” is to move on to evil.
Post-modern dunderhead. This is what I feared when I saw the first promo for the movie (ALL of my kids loved the book). When Orca’s stupid face appeared, I knew the movie would be a p.o.s.
This article confirms that.
Well, we all know Oprah knows best, even better than what the author wrote.
They missed the mark by a mile when one of the movies’ characters listed Nelson Mandela as one of the shining lights of goodness on earth. And Gandhi too. Anyone who drank cow urine and insisted on sleeping nude with young girls also shouldn’t be on the good list.
Go see “I Can Only Imagine” Dennis Quaid was excellent.
Their biggest mistake is not learning from the manufactured controversy recently whipped up by the studio marketing folks. It didn’t work with the girl Ghostbusters but it paid off in spades with Black Panther. All these people hadda do was lie and say white people would boycott this film because Orpah, and let their hired guns in the blogosphere and Facebook take it from there with mass guilt tripping of white folks, who are most of the moviegoing public. Then, the only reason you could possibly have to not see another magic negro movie this year, or disliking it if you do see it, is that you’re a racist.
Ah well, their loss. But they’ll try that formula again, because it works.
Perhaps Oprah should taking the savaging of her movie as a sign from God.
You want to be “inclusive” so that means re-writing someone else’s story? If you don’t want to tell the tale they wrote, then leave it the f**k alone. Don’t tell the damn story.
“Inclusiveness” doesn’t mean stripping out elements a religion you don’t like – that’s just bigotry no matter how you spin it.
“You want to be “inclusive” so that means re-writing someone else’s story? If you don’t want to tell the tale they wrote, then leave it the f**k alone. Don’t tell the damn story.”
Seconded.
I was debating seeing A Wrinkle in Time this weekend, and read the revues……the audience revues, not the critics revues. The results were just as bad as the one posted above…….majority bad.
If you’re going to rewrite someone’s book why did you pretend to use it?
– That doesn’t make sense.
“If you’re going to rewrite someone’s book why did you pretend to use it?
– That doesn’t make sense.”
It does when you realize that, having run out of ideas and wary of risking $$$ on truly new ideas, they’ve been reduced to strip-mining known works just for the name value of word-of-mouth buzz before it comes out.
I AM LEGEND, the novel, is a classic that’s quite deep on many levels. Not just an ooga-booga vampire story, it’s a lot more textured than that. It ould not possibly translate well to a Hollywood movie, so many of us expected a travesty all the way around, and sure enough it was.
But folks like me don’t count — our reaction comes only if one has read the book (I cannot imagine anyone who read the novel could possibly think the movie compares). To someone who has not read the novel – meaning 95% of movie-goers – they might have walked out seeing it as just another so-so Will Smith vehicle that some nerds said was a fantastic story, then forgot about it. Tickets were sold, butts were in the seats, the title theft did its job.
WORLD WAR Z is another recent example of this. I was cautiously optimistic for something close to the novel (probably another impossibility) but sure enough, it was not WWZ in anything but name.
Many other sad examples can be cited.
I was probably about 8 or 9 when I read the book and even though I remember nothing about it, I still remember that I had read it because of the title. Isn’t that weird?
And there’s 0prah again. Has to put her big head in every one of her magazine covers, with that same wig but in several different colors. So sick of her. Now I know why she made that overbearing splash (the first 5 rows must have been soaked) at the ‘whatever’ awards. She wanted her name in the spotlight to push this bullshit on film. This isn’t the same God-fearing 0prah from the 80s and early 90s. She’s the most important one in her life now. She’s out of her damn wig infested mind.
Oprah’s Wrinkle on her Behind.
I took the liberty to re-wright the Title.
@MJA I have the exact same memory of a Wrinkle In Time-not weird at all!
So Oprah is “The Black Thing”?
HAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!
L’Engle’s story was fun to read in my childhood, and even now — and it’s a miserable shame that Disney (which is a Godless cadre of cocksuckers) would use a piece of shit like Orca AND fuck up the whole story with Marxist, Godless, cocksuckery.
So in order to be inclusive they leave out references to one of the most inclusive religions in the world. There aren’t too many that will show compassion to others as the two religions that share a common Genesis.
This movie has some value. My 11 yo just finished reading the book so we could go see the movie. He was pissed. He hasn’t stopped complaining all day. New faults keep popping into his head. So it was a great opportunity for me to drive home the point books are always better than movies, using ones own imagination over one directors vision. He also just read ready player 1 which I assume will only serve to bolster this lesson March 29th
@Christy944 We have our fingers crossed for Ready Player One. If they get close, we’ll be happy. 🤞
“we have progressed as a society and we can move onto the other elements.”
Like… unemployment lines! 😆
I notice that all the gossip rags are pimping for Oprah to run for POTUS in 2020.
Oprah lives in the Bizarro World. Where else can a fat woman be the spokesperson for Weight Watchers? “I just ate an entire box of Twinkies! I’m FREESTYLIN’!”
So, it’s a biography of Dee Snyder and Twisted Sister?
Who hasn’t read that book? Phuck them.
I didn’t realize that “I am Legend” was based on a book. It was a really good zombie movie though. A lot of great gotcha moments, a decent story line and that when zombie movies in general are terrible movies. The Walking Dead is terrible. I imagine World War Z was terrible. But I liked “I am Legend”.
I actually recommend it, if you know what it is going in.
A Fatty in Time.
I despise Disney, always have, but Wrinkle in Time was one of my favorite books when I was a kid. Really disappointed that they made a Disney movie of it with the racist Oprah.
Should br re-titled Oprah and Disney presents, “Toil and Trouble – Three Witches and a Cauldron”
Wasting everyone’s time and money with this bait and switch Godless movie.
“Well, Orca … if it WAS a Wrinkle, it was a DAMNED good one!”
(paraphrased from an old joke)
izlamo delenda est …
The Wrinkle in Time Trilogy is one of mine and my dad’s all time favorites. (It’s up there with the Ransom Trilogy and The Lord of the Rings Saga.)
I remember when the trailer for this came out, and how incredibly disappointed I was with the blackwashing of most of the cast, the apparent complete reworking of the story, and flippin’ Oprah.
“Why was she cast as one of the Mrs? She can’t act at all” is what I said to somebody at the time. I remember having this horrible dread, that the movie was going to be putrid and put a stigma on this series that would be difficult to over come.
Looks like I was right.
Of course. It’s Disney and Hollywood.