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- From: vdp@mayo.edu (Vinayak Dutt)
- Subject: Re: The Steve Martin movie "Leap of Faith"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.131518.6337@bmw.mayo.edu>
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- Organization: Mayo Foundation/Mayo Graduate School :Rochester, MN
- References: <1992Dec29.053200.13860@engr.LaTech.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 13:15:18 GMT
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- In article 13860@engr.LaTech.edu, mchenry@latech.edu (Michael Q. McHenry) writes:
- :But along the lines of the original post, Steve Martin said he expected
- :differences of opinion about the film.. "I'm curious to see if people
- :will find it an uplifting movie or a satire on those characters. Will
- :they see it as anti-religous. Will they see it a pro-religious."
- :It is an interesting ambiguity, and I think that someone would have
- :to be pretty desperate to seek a comedy for confirmation of belief or
- :non-belief.
- :
- :What's interesting is that Martin studied for his role at a Charismatic
- :Ministries Conference in Tulsa. A former graduate (Ted Haggard) has
- :now set up shop here in the Springs (the New Life Church) where they
- :"practice" faith healing. Scary.
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- The whole movie goes ok till the end. If the movie could have been ended 5-10
- minutes before, it would have been a great one :-) But some how the director
- seems to have lost his guts and shabbily ended the movie with the *faith* thing
- leaving me doubtful as to if he really wanted to make fun of evangelical crowd or not.
- The end pretty much made it *pro-religious* despite steve martin's claims.
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- --- Vinayak.
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- vinayak dutt
- e-mail: vdp@mayo.edu
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