SilentDawning wrote:I think it would be a funny movie to portray a people who experience a truly divine intervention from a Heavenly Being of some kind -- perhaps God. Someone is charged with writing it all down by the Heavenly Being, and makes a grammatical error. This leads to a comic litany of events that leads to the culture adopting something incredibly outlandish and stupid, believing wholeheartedly that they are acting in ways prescribed by God -- when actually, all they are doing is acting on a spelling error. Sacrificing their lives and their possessions, all for some error in transcription of language.
Love it! It also reminds me of the following joke which you've probably all heard...
A new monk arrived at the monastery. He was assigned to help the other monks in copying the old texts by hand. He noticed, however, that they were copying copies, not the original books. The new monk went to the head monk to ask him about this. He pointed out that if there were an error in the first copy, that error would be continued in all of the other copies.
The head monk said, 'We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son.' The head monk went down into the cellar with one of the copies to check it against the original.
Hours later, nobody had seen him, so one of the monks went downstairs to look for him. He heard a sobbing coming from the back of the cellar and found the old monk leaning over one of the original books, crying.
He asked what was wrong.
'The word is 'celebrate,' not 'celibate'!' sobbed the head monk.
SilentDawning wrote:There is also a movie I've never seen called "The Gods Must Be Crazy" that I've never seen; I've wondered if it has anything to do with people's interpretation events in a religious way.
If I remember right this move is all about a group of tribal Africans trying to understand modern civilization. (a glass bottle, which they thought was a gift from God, was tossed from an airplane flying overhead, and their discovery of it caused eventual contention among the tribe until they decided to return it) Great movie!