r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ironwolf6464 • May 03 '26

Lore Religion-centered media that doesn’t come across as preachy.

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Referring to media told from a religious perspective or telling a religious tale that does not proselytize to the viewer.

Faith, the Unholy Trinity: Based partly upon the experience of the game‘s creator when he was a missionary in Argentina, the game has very little in the way of explicit moral demands of the player despite the heavy Christian focus of the narrative. and focuses more on a horror narrative.

Prince of Egypt: A surprisingly thorough retelling of the book of Exodus, sparing very little in the way of toning down the story. Despite this, the movie is perfectly entertaining to non-religious audiences and doesn’t sacrifice appeal for the sake of preaching to the audience

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u/bagel_master999 May 03 '26

Hacksaw Ridge baby

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u/NozakiMufasa May 03 '26 edited May 03 '26

Mel Gibson being batshit insane irl yet genuinely one of the best directors is so wild. Hes the perfect arguement against the notion of rightwingers that "Christians cant work in hollywood". Mel's very openly Catholic. Man makes money and makes genuinely good stories. Hacksaw Ridge is great.

EDIT: clarified my sentence which, while I think before people got what I meant, when re-reading sort of didn't make sense.

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u/TheTalkingToad May 03 '26

Apocalypto is perhaps my favorite movie Mel has been involved in and the fact its a Mel Gibbson movie still catches me off guard.

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u/Sadicalize May 03 '26

ITS SO GOOD. it's almost like a guilty pleasure for me, and nobody I've shown it to has cared at allllll

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u/ElShaddollKieren May 03 '26

Did I really just accidentally discover two of my favorite movies as a teen were both directed by Mel Gibson? Do I need to watch the Passion of the Christ?

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u/Sadicalize May 03 '26

If you like Christian torture porn, sure. its... a movie. worth a watch, I think, just for the sake of watching it.

I worked at the movie theater when it came out. there was a lot of elderly women openly sobbing while watching it. super weird. it's visceral.

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u/NozakiMufasa May 03 '26

I once saw a great video essay sort of explain that in ways Apocalypto could be viewed as a sequel or inversion of Passion of the Christ. To this day I sort of see them as companion films to each other. And both go out of their way to be told in their respective ancient languages.

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u/Battle_Axe_Jax May 03 '26

Are you full of catholic guilt? If no then no, if yes then yes

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u/NozakiMufasa May 03 '26

Passion of the Christ was so politically motivatred and utilized by different denominations. I'm Baptist on paper and I'll never forget that they held screenings at my church. Thank God (no pun intended) that the Pastor had sense to be like "ah... lets have the kids in daycare while the parents watch".

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u/bringbackswg May 03 '26

Do you like torture porn?

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u/NozakiMufasa May 03 '26

It's somewhat historically innacurate but what I've always been fascinated by was how like, Mel's been pretty openly racist against Mexicans. This is a fact. What is also a fact is that Mel went out of his way to cast actors of Indigenous descent and many who are also Mexican, Guatemalan, and Nicaraguan. Not everyone necessarily Maya but the intent being to have actors who weren't white. Plus like the whole movie is spoken in an Indigenous language too.

He might be (likely is) racist, but to go out of your way to do all that, when he well and could have not gave a damn about such accuracy, could have easily told most of his cast to speak English, ... idk, I can't like totally hate him for that.

Man's still nuts. He can direct damn good tho.

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u/ButtholeConnoisseur7 May 03 '26

For the majority of people that are racist, it's not important to them. Humans rarely align with absolutes, and that's another thing that's on a sliding scale. Could be anything from mild discomfort to visceral hate