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LOS ANGELES In the summer blockbuster movie “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” from 20th Century Fox, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie play godless suburbanites and professional assassins. But when they steal their neighbor’s car for an extended chase scene, a crucifix hangs conspicuously from the rear-view mirror, and in the next scene the actors wear borrowed jackets that read “Jesus Rocks” as they go on the lam.
“We decided to make the next-door neighbor, whose crucifix it is, be hip, young, cool Christians,” explained the movie’s director, Doug Liman. “It’s literally in there for no other reason than I thought: This is cool.”
Liman isn’t alone. Mainstream Hollywood, after decades of ignoring the pious - or occasionally defying them with the likes of Martin Scorsese’s revisionist “Last Temptation of Christ” and Kevin Smith’s profane parody “Dogma” - is adjusting to what it perceives to be a rising religiosity in American culture.
Certainly, the odd provocation still occurs. Billboards for the heavy-metal rocker Rob Zombie’s “Devil’s Rejects,” set for release on Friday by Lions Gate Films, shows a murderous band of outlaws in a pose that mimics the Last Supper. . . .
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“We decided to make the next-door neighbor, whose crucifix it is, be hip, young, cool Christians,” explained the movie’s director, Doug Liman. “It’s literally in there for no other reason than I thought: This is cool.”
Liman isn’t alone. Mainstream Hollywood, after decades of ignoring the pious - or occasionally defying them with the likes of Martin Scorsese’s revisionist “Last Temptation of Christ” and Kevin Smith’s profane parody “Dogma” - is adjusting to what it perceives to be a rising religiosity in American culture.
Certainly, the odd provocation still occurs. Billboards for the heavy-metal rocker Rob Zombie’s “Devil’s Rejects,” set for release on Friday by Lions Gate Films, shows a murderous band of outlaws in a pose that mimics the Last Supper. . . .
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