Ep. 2511 - Hollywood Turns CS Lewis’ Jesus Figure Into A Bisexual Woman?!
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Eight. David Bowie bisexual rock singer-based lion voiced by a left-wing actress.
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What the actual fa Okay, so I promise I'll get to all the hard news. President Trump at the UN, a bunch of push polls from states that aren't competitive for Democrats, Canada euthanizing old ladies. But I want to start with this story. It sounds unimportant. Actually, it is not unimportant because, as my mentor and friend Andrew Breitbart used to say, culture is upstream of politics. It's why we're in the entertainment game here at Daily Wire. Okay, so I log on to the internet this week and I see something totally crazy. So the Chronicles of Narnia. is of course being remade now by Netflix and they hired Greta Gerwig, for some reason no one can discern, to be the director of this thing. And she released an image of Aslan, who is the metaphorical Jesus figure in the Chronicles of Narnia.
And the metaphorical image has now been made into a lion with two variantly colored eyes. Why did she do that? Well, according to Empire Online, she did this because she wanted to channel David Bowie. She wanted to channel, and not only that, she wants the voice of Aslan, the lion, in Chronicles of Vinarnia, to be Merrill Streep. And she said, quote, I wanted someone who was profound but not pretentious, who had gravitas but not morose self seriousness, someone who could communicate depth and pathos as well as joy and delight. So C.S. Lewis is of course the most famous Christian apologist of the last century and a half. In the Chronicles of Narnia, he lays out his philosophy on Christianity basically as a metaphorical fairy tale designed for kids.
And he was open about this. Here is what he intended with the books. A direct quote from C.S. Lewis about what the books were supposed to be. Quote: Supposing by casting all these things into an imaginary world, stripping them of their stained glass in Sunday school associations, one could make them for the first time appear in their real potency. Could one not thus steal past those watchful dragons? I thought one could. In other words, The the sort of cynicism with which people approach religion, the sort of tiredness and hackney nature of going to a church. He can strip that away by making it into a story that people want to read, by making it into a metaphor. Now, again, the goal here was to teach children in the West about the values of Christianity and about the story of Christianity via metaphor.
That that is the goal of the story. We're not talking here about some strange take on the gospels for adults, like The Last Temptation of Christ or some movie comedy that mocks Jesus. We're talking about a tool that was intended originally by its author to introduce Western kids to Christian ideas and figures. Only a sick culture would take that thing designed for kids and pervert it and turn it instead into a vehicle for secular politics. That is what Hollywood is actually doing. This is where you come into the Greta Gerwig of it all. So Greta Gerwig, of course, directed little women. She has sort of feminist take on little women. And she directed Barbie, which is of course an atrocity. You can see my very famous review in which I literally burn Barbie dolls.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–6:00
2
What is Greta Gerwig doing to the Narnia franchise and why does it matter?
6:00–9:34
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How does the episode explain the cultural impact of changing Aslan’s portrayal?
9:34–13:38
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Why does Ben Shapiro argue that Hollywood’s Narnia remake is a threat to Christian values?
13:38–38:28
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What did President Trump say at the UN about Iran, Cuba and globalism?
38:28–58:04
Speakers
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