Bedknobs and Broomsticks

[Mrs. Mary Whitford]

Brothers and Sisters, you probably saw the title of this thread and gasped in shock, wondering why I'd be writing about bondage and the use of phallic objects not just on our Godly forums, but in Focus on Family of all places! Let me assure you, I have good cause.
You may not be aware of this, but "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" is the name of a film released many years ago by that most anti-family, pro-sodomite of companies, Disney. It's not really a surprise that a corporation that promotes homerism with an annual "Gay Day" would come up with something as shocking and disgusting as this, but the demented title is only the beginning of the sad story.
Even worse? It goes beyond just trying to recruit young children into the sodomite agenda. It promotes witchcraft, my friends!
The movie stars obvious lesbimen Angela Lansbury as a wannabe witch who learns her Satanic craft through a correspondence school operated by yet another fey Brit, David Tomlinson (whom many of you may remember from that popular anti-business, pro-Communist and pro-witchcraft film, "Mary Poppins").
And so many of today's True Christians think this all started with Harry Potter. No. Satan has been after our children through the magic of movies for decades now with the generous help of Walt Disney and his minions.
Together, these two take three innocent children on a "magical journey" on an "enchanted bed". Really. They weren't even trying to be subtle. How many catlick priests saw this movie as the gift from the devil that it was? Imagine "Father" Seamus inviting young choirboy Tommy to stay after choir practice to watch a movie. After the end credits roll, the priest turns to his victim and talks about how he's got a magic bed, and would Tommy like to take a ride on it?
I weep thinking about how many youngsters fell under the wicked spell of papist pedophiles thanks to this tool provided them by their dark master!
That's not enough for the sickos who made this abomination though. Oh no. They had to go make witchcraft look cheery and fun! Not once did Angela Lansbury question if this was something that Jesus would want her to do, no, she just went around casting spells with a huge smile on her face! If this were a Christian film, she'd have met her fiery death and been cast down into Hell for defying God's will, but she's actually portrayed as a heroine!
We've all been there when filthy sinners so intent on wallowing in their own degradation call us "Nazis" and "worse than Hitler" for doing nothing more than spreading the Gospel and trying to save their worthless souls. Well, Nazis appear in this movie as an obvious allegory for True Christians, and the murderous witch uses her dark powers to defeat them, to convince the unsuspecting that Satan will actually triumph over Jesus!
All of this makes me wary to even bring up the talking animals. As we all know from the Bible, the only animals that can talk are the serpent and the ass, but they show lions and bears an other creatures yakking up a storm! In human clothing too! If we ever want to try and find where the growing problem of "furries" got its start, I don't think we have to look any further than this wretched excuse for "family entertainment".
In short, while we need to stand on guard as the next Harry Potter movie is released (I've got my picket sign painted and ready to go), we'd do well to remember that the most monstrous film ever made is already out there and has been corrupting the innocent for decades now.
So please join me in prayer and write to your Republican senators and congressmen to pass legislation to ban "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" and to see that all copies out there are promptly destroyed. If they're not sure where to start, I'm sure there are a few papist nightstands and Wicced bookshelves they can check to get things started.

[Sailor Chaos (On Moderation)]

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Mary Poppins promotes witchcraft? Man, I need to pay more attention!

[Mrs. Mary Whitford]

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Mary Poppins promotes witchcraft? Man, I need to pay more attention!

Which part of the spinster woman casting spells and enthralling children went over your head?
Don't even get me started on how she got so into the head of one of the children (the male child at that), that the boy not only disrespected his father, breaking a commandment, but managed to get the hard-working head of the household fired from his job! The whole movie is anti-God, anti-family trash from start to finish, but what can you expect from Disney?

[Sailor Chaos (On Moderation)]

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But doesn't the bible say this?
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. - Luke 14:26

[Brother Temperance]

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But doesn't the bible say this?
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. - Luke 14:26

Yes, we are to hate our parents, but in a respectful fashion.

[Sailor Chaos (On Moderation)]

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That seems contradictory.

[Mrs. Mary Whitford]

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That seems contradictory.

There's nothing contradictory at all in the Bible. For example, I hate Bill Clinton. Yet if I were ever to meet him, I would say, "I rebuke you in the name of Jesus, Mr. President, sir!" See? I honor the position he once held while at the same time despising his evilness.

[Sailor Chaos (On Moderation)]

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So anyway, what was the premise of this movie?

[Mrs. Mary Whitford]

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So anyway, what was the premise of this movie?

Witch bedevils children. Are you really that addlepated? Maybe if you'd spend a little less time spewing silly little one-liners all over the forums and more time reading them, you might learn a little something.

[Old Iron Crotch]

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So anyway, what was the premise of this movie?

A father who is so wrapped up in his work and his desire for everything to be picture perfect in his life that his children actually think he dislikes them because they aren't perfect, and a mother who is at once a suffragette and at the same time utters the words, "If you say so, dear" so many times that you lose count hire one nanny after another to care for their children. The nannies they hire are generally a dour lot, and have no patience with the normal rambunctious nature of children, expecting them instead to behave like little adults. The children write their own want ad for a nanny, and their father declares it ridiculous, tears it up and tosses it nto the fireplace, where an updraft carries it up to the sky. Enter magical nanny Mary Poppins answering the children's ad, who teaches the children the value of an active imagination while at the same time teaching them to channel their energies. Along the way, she also teaches the parents the value of spending time simply playing with their children.

http://www.reelclassics.com/Musicals/MaryPoppins/marypoppins.htm

Based on the book by P.L Travers.

[Brother Temperance]

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A father who is so wrapped up in his work and his desire for everything to be picture perfect in his life that his children actually think he dislikes them because they aren't perfect, and a mother who is at once a suffragette and at the same time utters the words, "If you say so, dear" so many times that you lose count hire one nanny after another to care for their children...Based on the book by P.L Travers.

That's a fairly acceptable, if unpleasantly secular, summary of Mary Poppins. Too bad that's not the film being discussed. There's a clue in the title of this thread, if you look closely enough. But I suppose that would involve you paying attention to something other than your own navel...

[Old Iron Crotch]

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That's a fairly acceptable, if unpleasantly secular, summary of Mary Poppins. Too bad that's not the film being discussed. There's a clue in the title of this thread, if you look closely enough. But I suppose that would involve you paying attention to something other than your own navel...

Mary Poppins was brought up in a subsequent post. I thought that was the film being asked about.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks synopsis from Wikipedia:
Set in 1940, that is when England is threatened by German invasion, in the county of Dorset in the West Country of England, the only defence to hand is in the form of the British Home Guard. As this consists of elderly gentlemen (all the young men are already away at war) this really couldn't provide much of a defence in case of an actual invasion. Angela Lansbury plays Miss Eglantine Price, an excentric woman who lives close to Corfe Castle. She is following a correspondence course to become a witch and hopes somehow to help the war effort.
To her distaste, however, she is assigned three young siblings evacuated from London, to protect them from the Blitz bombings. The three, Charlie (Ian Weighill), Carrie (Cindy O'Callaghan) and Paul Rawlins (Roy Snart), discover that Miss Price is a witch and Charlie tries to blackmail Miss Price by threatening to reveal her secret. Rather than be blackmailed Miss Price decides to win over their favour instead by giving the children one of her spells.
Miss Price activates a travelling spell, and applies this to a bedknob which Paul pulled off Miss Price's late father's brass bed. The bed is now able to go anywhere that the owner of the bedknob wants. Miss Price and the children use the bed to fly to London in search of Professor Emelius Browne (David Tomlinson), the headmaster of the College of Witchcraft in London, and the final lesson in the course: the spell for substitutiary locomotion - making inanimate objects move of their own accord. They discover that he is only a conman, who inadvertently used spells from a book of a real magician, Astoroth, for his correspondence course. Mr. Browne takes them to "his" town house, in fact a house in an abandoned part of bombed-out London. The children explore the house and come across a nursery, in which Paul finds a children's picture book about the Lost Isle of Naboombu. He likes it so much that he takes it with him.
Miss Price finally manages to force Mr. Browne to give her the old book from which he got his spells, but it has been torn in half. They go to Portobello Road's marketplace, where Mr. Browne last saw the other half of the book. There they meet The Bookman (Sam Jaffe), who has the other half of the book. Unfortunately, the spell is not in either of the parts: the paragraph, when completed, only tells of the spell's legend, not the spell itself. The Bookman explains to Miss Price that Astoroth used his magic to make the animals he had to emulate human-like qualities and behaviours. But they revolted, killed Astoroth, stole much of his magical spells & items, and escaped to the Isle of Naboombu. An island the Bookman says cannot be found on any map; that is until Paul shows him the children's book he kept from the nursery. The Bookman tries to grab Paul's book, but they escape on the bed, and to the mystical island.
Entering the cartoon world, they crash land in the nearby lagoon and find an animated realm where fish can talk, and they can breathe under the water. Miss Price and Mr. Browne compete in an underwater dance contest. They win first prize, but suddenly partying turns to peril when fish hooks come down and grab the bed, taking it and the children for a ride. Miss Price and Mr. Browne grab hold and follow after.
On shore, a bear in a sailor suit is fishing and pulls the bed to shore. He is about to throw the humans back into the water, when Paul interrupts, showing him the book and demanding to see the king, as it's the law. The land is called the Island of Naboombu. The bear reluctantly takes them to meet the king's secretary, a Secretary Bird. The bird leads Mr. Browne into the king's tent after he reveals the king likes football, but lacks a referee.
Mr. Browne emerges with the king, who turns out to be a lion. The group soon notice that the king is wearing a medallion: the Star of Astoroth, which has the words to the sought after spell engraved upon it. After the football match, with a lot of cartoon rough play of which Mr. Browne as the referee is the biggest recipient, the humans manage to steal the star medallion from the king. They read the magic words and wrap it up in a handkerchief.
The group use the bed to leave the cartoon world and return home, only to discover that the medallion evaporates; items cannot be taken from one world to another. It turns out however the words had been in Paul's book all along, allowing Miss Price to attempt the spell. She is unable to control it however. Many objects inside her house come to life, including her nightgown and Charlie's Sunday trousers.
Later that night, Miss Price laments her inability to control the spell and is finally cheered up when, while juggling apples, Mr. Browne drops one and splatters his face with gravy at the dinner table. After dinner, Mr. Browne is awkwardly confronted by the children as being their "Dad", whereupon he hurriedly leaves for the train station.
During the night, the Germans launch a secret raid on England, taking over Miss Price's house and using it as their headquarters. Annoyed with her, they hold her captive in the village castle.
At the train station, Browne sees two Germans cutting the phone lines and successfully wards them off. He then sneaks back to the house to find it overrun with Germans. Upon discovering that Miss Price and the children are no longer there, he is chased into Miss Price's workshop by two Germans. Browne is able to turn himself into a rabbit just as they corner him and escapes.
Mr. Browne finds Miss Price in the castle. He urges her to use the substitutiary locomotion spell to bring all the suits of armour and medieval weapons in the castle to life to attack the Germans. This time, Miss Price is able to control the spell and weapons from ancient Viking times to British imperial redcoats come to life, overpowering the guards outside the door, and marching in full force against the Germans.
Miss Price leads the ensuing battle while riding a broom found in the castle. The Germans are dismayed to find that no matter how many bullets they fire, and how many of the museum exhibits they damage and destroy, it has little effect on the fighting spirit of the magical army, only slowing them down long enough to empty out bullets from inside their armour.
The German colonel now tells his men to retreat, stopping only long enough to plant charges to blow up what they have to leave behind. The explosion destroys Miss Price's workshop causing her to immediately fall from the sky and the magical army of warriors to fall where they stood. At this point, the Home Guard, hearing the gunfire, arrives at the beach to see the Germans off.
A newspaper later reports the events of that day vaguely and unclear, speaking only of "mysterious happenings" that are largely ignored and anecdotal.
Mr. Browne enlists in the British Army, promising to return. As he departs down the road, Charlie complains that they won't have any more fun, to which Paul replies "we still have this, don't we?", pulling out the magical glittering bedknob.

[Sailor Chaos (On Moderation)]

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A father who is so wrapped up in his work and his desire for everything to be picture perfect in his life that his children actually think he dislikes them because they aren't perfect, and a mother who is at once a suffragette and at the same time utters the words, "If you say so, dear" so many times that you lose count hire one nanny after another to care for their children. The nannies they hire are generally a dour lot, and have no patience with the normal rambunctious nature of children, expecting them instead to behave like little adults. The children write their own want ad for a nanny, and their father declares it ridiculous, tears it up and tosses it nto the fireplace, where an updraft carries it up to the sky. Enter magical nanny Mary Poppins answering the children's ad, who teaches the children the value of an active imagination while at the same time teaching them to channel their energies. Along the way, she also teaches the parents the value of spending time simply playing with their children.

http://www.reelclassics.com/Musicals/MaryPoppins/marypoppins.htm

Based on the book by P.L Travers.

I know about Mary Poppins, but I was talking about this Bedknobs and Broomsticks movie. Thanks anyway.

[Sailor Chaos (On Moderation)]

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Oops. Nevermind that last bit.

[Bobby-Joe]

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discover that Miss Price is a witch and Charlie tries to blackmail Miss Price by threatening to reveal her secret. Rather than be blackmailed Miss Price decides to win over their favour instead by giving the children one of her spells.
Miss Price activates a travelling spell, and applies this to a bedknob which Paul pulled off Miss Price's late father's brass bed.

Gee, a witch uses a "bedknob" to win some children's favor; I can't imagine what the symbolism is there. You seem mighty keen on this flick Dance with Joy. Since I value my peace of mind I really don't want to know why.