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Rejecting Creation the movie: A business decision
Canada’s Macleans news site recently published an article titled “Darwin movie too evolved for U.S. audiences”. The article refers to the decision of US film distributors to “pass” on the film “Creation”—the dramatized story of Charles Darwin’s struggle while writing the Origin of Species. The refusal to distribute a film premiered and acclaimed at the Toronto Film Festival seems to have again roused the Canadian media’s scorn of the “backward Americans” of which—according to Gallup—only 39% believe Darwin and his evolutionary theory. It is interesting how very differently the Canadian and world media treated America during WW II when far fewer Americans believed Darwin! It seemed then that disbelief in Darwin had little to do with economic power, and “backward America” was capable of defeating the “advanced evolution-believing” Germany and Japan economically, technically and of course militarily. After the war a creationist—Wernher von Braun—headed the Apollo space program. American schools, most of which refused to teach Darwinian evolution, have produced (between 1925 and 1957) more Nobel prizes than the rest of the world put together.
The film “Creation” (see CMI’s review) has Paul Bettany (who seems to enjoy playing such characters, from the dark “ecclesiastic agent” Silas in the Da Vinci Code to the surprisingly Darwinesque doctor Stephen Maturin in Master and Commander) depict a tormented Darwin who lost his faith in God as he lost his favorite little girl Annie. Dramatic maybe, but far from reality because Darwin had already stopped believing in the God of the Scriptures long before. For a useful reality check on Darwin see CMI’s documentary The Voyage that Shook the World.
Why did the distributors reject it? ...
The vast majority in the movie business are lefty-Darwinists who would like nothing better than put out something that attacks the Christian Right in way or another.
Canada’s Macleans news site recently published an article titled “Darwin movie too evolved for U.S. audiences”. The article refers to the decision of US film distributors to “pass” on the film “Creation”—the dramatized story of Charles Darwin’s struggle while writing the Origin of Species. The refusal to distribute a film premiered and acclaimed at the Toronto Film Festival seems to have again roused the Canadian media’s scorn of the “backward Americans” of which—according to Gallup—only 39% believe Darwin and his evolutionary theory. It is interesting how very differently the Canadian and world media treated America during WW II when far fewer Americans believed Darwin! It seemed then that disbelief in Darwin had little to do with economic power, and “backward America” was capable of defeating the “advanced evolution-believing” Germany and Japan economically, technically and of course militarily. After the war a creationist—Wernher von Braun—headed the Apollo space program. American schools, most of which refused to teach Darwinian evolution, have produced (between 1925 and 1957) more Nobel prizes than the rest of the world put together.
The film “Creation” (see CMI’s review) has Paul Bettany (who seems to enjoy playing such characters, from the dark “ecclesiastic agent” Silas in the Da Vinci Code to the surprisingly Darwinesque doctor Stephen Maturin in Master and Commander) depict a tormented Darwin who lost his faith in God as he lost his favorite little girl Annie. Dramatic maybe, but far from reality because Darwin had already stopped believing in the God of the Scriptures long before. For a useful reality check on Darwin see CMI’s documentary The Voyage that Shook the World.
Why did the distributors reject it? ...
The vast majority in the movie business are lefty-Darwinists who would like nothing better than put out something that attacks the Christian Right in way or another.