Did Christians influence the PG rating for "The Passion of the Aslan"?

[Czolgosz]

Just saw that "Chronicles of Narnia" movie with my 4- and a 7-year-old kids. It scared the shit out of my daughter. My wife says that fundamentalist Christians control the ratings board and they deliberately skewed the rating down to PG instead of PG-13 because they were wanting to proselytize to younger children (including, for example, the local Catholic school which took the entire student body as a Christmas field trip which they couldn't have done if the movie was PG-13).

So . . .

Anyone who's seen the movie think it ought to have been PG-13?

If so, what do you think about the theory that Christians control the ratings board and deliberately down rated it to a PG?

[madeline_con]

1. I don't know if the theory is true....

but I've heard Aslan is supposed to be a "Christ like figure".

If so, anything they can do to expose it to more people, the happier they'd be.

I have a question. Is it obvious or is the savior thing obscure in the flick?

[don954]

4. i guess if you were wanting to read somehting into it,

yes, you could see Aslan as a "Christ like figure". But as a Pagan, it played out like a clasical Pagan tale to me..! I went an saw it today, i loved it, cant wait to see how they do with the next book.

[madeline_con]

7. Thanks for the review. :) n/t

[Yupster]

14. I liked it too

and my eight-year old said it was the best movie he's ever seen which surprised me.

It really was well made.

There is a boy who keeps doing treacherous things and by agreement he belongs to the evil witch. She meets with Aslan and Aslan agrees to die for the boy's sins instead of the boy.

Aslan delivers himself to the altar stone where he is mocked, shaved and then killed.

When he is resurrected the altar stone cracks and the resurrected Aslan comes back to save the day, then walks out of the movie to come back some day.

It's pretty biblical.

If you know your bible, you know that at the instant of Christ's death the great Curtain of the Temple of Jeruselum was torn in two from top to bottom. That's what I thought of when the stone altar cracked at Aslan's death/resurrection.

[Richard D]

2. I remember . . . .

. . . being totally horrified by Bambi.

[MalachiConstant]

3. i think the mpaa needs to revamp their ratings system

i think in recent years the mpaa has just become a lot more lenient in general. wow, i do need to get new glasses though; i just thought the headline read "the passion of the asian." i thought that sounded weird.



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[MADem]

13. HA!!! Me too!! I pictured Jackie Chan on the cross!!!!

:rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

5. You may be on to something

My parents saw it yesterday, and I asked them if they thought my 4 year old could handle it, they said NO WAY. They thought a child of less than 10 should be kept from seeing it.

[SaveElmer]

6. No I don't think so...

It was somewhat close...but the battle scenes were bloddless...there was obviously no nudity or language...some of the scenes were a bit intense, but I don't think it warranted a PG-13 rating...

PG is parental guidance... this was appropriate

[Czolgosz]

9. The scenes where Aslan was bound, shaved, and killed scared the kids.

The battle scenes didn't bother them (except where the boy was stabbed). I certainly found it more violent than, say, the PG-13 Spider-Man movie.

[SaveElmer]

11. Certainly intense...

But they didn't show the stabbing...

And PG does mean that some scenes might not be suitable for younger children...which for kids under 5 or 6 this may not be...

Spiderman had bloody shootings, bomb explosions, and the end where the Green Goblin is impaled was pretty graphic...all more intense in my view than the Narnia movie...

But it depends on ones perspective...I don't think these rating are a slam dunk...it is all subjective in the end...

[Yupster]

15. My kid volunteered

that there was only one part of the movie when he almost cried. He said it was when they killed Aslan.

He's a pretty mature eight year old.

[LostinVA]

17. It got PG-13 because there was no blood in the battles

Or so I've read. I'll try to find the link.

btw.. it is a very dark book, and the movie is very faithful to the book. I read it for the first time in sixth grade, and it scared me to death.

btw... I went to parochial school, was very active in my church, and the Christ allegory went right over my head. I don't consider either the book or the movie religious propaganda, and certainly NOT Fundamentalist propaganda. Lewis was far, far from an intolerant, Fundamentalist Christian.

[Czolgosz]

8. The movie isn't as Christian as some of the books in the series. There are

some ChriStian allegorical elements (which I seems harmless but which is the reason why many church groups and religious schools are taking their kids):

(SPOILER WARNING FOR ANYONE WHO HASN'T READ THE BOOKS OR SEEN THE MOVIE)

1. the kid who falls from grace is repeatedly referred to as a "Son of Adam"
2. Aslan (the lion hero and Christ figure) agrees to suffer and die to save this fallen character
3. After dying, Aslan rises from the dead to fight back the evil witch and then he goes off again to return someday
4. the blight brought on by the witch has prevented Christmas from coming to Narnia until Aslan vanquishes her

There's sure to be more, but it's late and my brain is only a low-wattage unit so that's all I can think of now.

[Yupster]

16. More spoiler alert

even Jolly Saint Nick himself makes an appearance.

[LostinVA]

18. Actually, all humans are called

Either Son of Adam or Daughter of Eve in the book.

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[MnFats]

12. why are you here?

just to spew insults? surely you could find a better spot. What a jerk. off.