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This is more of a lighthearted post on the topic of movies. Often times when I go to a movie, I find myself drawing gospel parallels in my head. For example, when I first saw the movie Inception, it made me think of how our lives here may compare to life after death. Will it be like waking up from a dream? There are several parallels that I came up with in that movie, but the one I mentioned is the biggest one. Another example would be the movie Thor. I saw this one a week or so ago, and I was pretty impressed! The parallel I drew to the Gospel in this movie is when Thor is sent to Earth. When he’s on Earth, the gatekeeper is always watching him, and can hear him, which sort of made me think of how we see prayer. I know this explanation is a little rough, but I hope you guys get the idea. I’m just curious if any of you ever catch yourselves doing this while watching a movie? If you do, give a few examples! Thanks 
What Dreams May Come – Pretty much the whole movie kept me thinking deeply non-stop. I really LOVE that movie. The Sixth Sense – I loved thinking about how we only see what we want to see and how even those things of which we are certain can be illusionary.
Princess Bride – I just can’t talk about movies without mentioning that one. If a conversation can’t be related to Princess Bride, the people talking simply haven’t watched it often enough – and there is no too much with that movie.
That’s funny, candle, I do that too…I guess it goes to show how influential the gospel is even in unrelated things…it is just how I see the world. Star Wars…(see my signature line)
No one can watch Conversations with God without trying to relate it to the Mormon understanding of the gospel, that’s for sure. Like Ray, I find powerful symbolism in What Dreams may Come. I LOVE the part where he finds his wife in “Hell” and is determined to stay with her. …The way the situation plays out it’s as if his Love for her – his willingness to give up his eternal life for her – is the power that unlocks her torment and sets her free. I think it was absolutely brilliant the way they had her emerge from her ‘fog’ the same instant that he slipped into his. The moment he proved his willingness to give ‘the ultimate sacrifice’ she was free.
Amazing moment in a great movie!
Cool Hand Luke is another movie with religious symbolism. Rather than tell it I’ll just hint at some of it.
Eggs
Crosses
John the Baptist
I’m glad a thread like this was started. I know that it’s not a movie but… there was an Episode of Star Trek next Generation I saw recently that kind of spoke to me in my current situation.
An Ancient Klingon named Kahless is somewhat like an old prophet or possibly a Savior of the Klingons. Kahless had United the ancient Klingons and became their Emperor for a time. One day Kahless decided to leave his people but told him that he would one day return.
While a Klingon is in a deep traditional meditation it is believed that the spirit of Kahless will appear to the Klingon and give him or her guidance.
Worf who is the Klingon on the enterprise begins to have a major faith crises and wonders if he really believes in any of the old stories of Kahless.
Worf is relieved of his duties to allow him to find whatever was missing in his life. He visited with a group of highly spiritual Klingons where he prayed in a traditional Klingon style. Some of the youngest of the Klingon men claimed to have seen images of Kahless. Worf remained greatly disappointed when he did not see anything.
One night when Worf had thought about giving up on everything Kahless had appeared to Worf, however it wasn’t an image it was a physical being that claimed to be Kahless returning to reunite the Klingon people.
Kahless fought like the ancient records had read. His DNA proved to be KAHLESS!!
Worf regained his Faith!!!
:clap: Until…. Kahless was unable to answer deep doctrinal questions and couldn’t remember little details of his ancient stories.
The Highly spiritual and religious Klingons began to fight with the Highly educated Government Klingons. The Government would not step aside and give their power to Kahless because they were not convinced that he was who he claimed to be even with DNA evidence.
Eventually the Religous Klingons admitted to Worf that the Kahless was actually a clone created in a lab. They simply put the ancient stories as memories into the clone so he would think that he was Kahless.
At that point Worf lost all Faith. Even with a loss of faith Worf stepped in to prevent war between the Church and Government. Worf told everyone that even though this Kahless was a clone he should be allowed to be an Emperor for spiritual and religious guidance. Though he was just a Clone he should act as the Heir of Kahlass.
The Cloned Kahlass probably felt horrible knowing full well that his whole life was fake. As a way to say thanks to Worf for making him Emperor he found the time to comfort Worf in his faith crises. He told Worf that even if the real Kahlass never returns he still left behind good ideas and teachings and his spirit lives on in the hearts of every Klingon.
The whole episode totally spoke to me in my current situation.
I know I gave away everything but… I kind of felt like it was the only way to express the parallels of this episode to what so many of us here may be going through right now.
I really enjoyed that GreenApples!! Thanks! I started off saying that a writer from Star trek is Mormon and might have influenced it, but alas, I am wrong. :shh: The producer of Battlestar Galactica, Glen Larson, is who I was thinking about, and he’s Mormon.😆 I don’t know about Movies as much as television shows. Supernatural, for instance. Dean is taken to a very temple-like room that is white, with a beautiful chandelier and the “eternal mirror.” His half brother named Adam is later inhabited by the angel Michael, and other parallels.
CandleLight25 wrote:I really enjoyed that GreenApples!! Thanks! I started off saying that a writer from Star trek is Mormon and might have influenced it, but alas, I am wrong.
:shh: The producer of Battlestar Galactica, Glen Larson, is who I was thinking about, and he’s Mormon.😆 Some of the main writers of Star Trek are Catholic though. So you will see some parallels between Star Trek and Catholicism. In later Star Trek shows and movies they bring in other Belief systems.
The latest Pirates of the Caribbean film has some spiritual messages in it… bizarrely. I think “The Mission” has to be a great spiritual movie, although I love the original Solaris (warning it’s a slow film, and the car scene can be skipped, but it’s still very moving.)
SamBee wrote:The latest Pirates of the Caribbean film has some spiritual messages in it… bizarrely.
I saw Pirates last week and definetly drew some paralleles to the Gospel! Glad to see I’m not the only one
I think the complete Matrix Series has many spiritual parallels. I know the movies are rated
👿 R😈 I see a lot of references to Christ. It’s a good story of community and sacrifice for the good of humanity.
Avengers Assemble… a couple of weeks ago… Loki says that humanity doesn’t deserve to have free will, and tries to deprive it of such. CandleLight25 wrote:The producer of Battlestar Galactica, Glen Larson, is who I was thinking about, and he’s Mormon.
😆 I remember when my oldest son was about 10, he loved watiching Battlestar Galactica on TV. I am not a science fiction fan like my husband and oldest son are, but One episode, I turned around in shock when I heard the words:
“As Man is, God once was, and as God is, man may become.” I just blurted out, “This writer must be a Mormon!
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