that are filled with purity and hope contrasted with today’s television of sin and darkness, will help to expose the darkness.  If you are watching a channel with a show like Sex in The City and then on a commercial break, switch over to a show like Sharon in the city (a Christian twenty-something show), you will immediately see the stark contrast of the two.  It will make the darkness appear to be even darker than before.  I believe that if the shows are good quality, that people will prefer them to their cynical and jaded counterparts. 

     Television is the main delivery system for almost all other forms of media.  How do you find out about a new movie that you want to see?  You watch a movie trailer on television.  How does a teenager find out about a new music band?  They watch MTV or see a commercial.

Christ In The Movies

There is a new movie coming out about the African nation Uganda and it’s transition from an evil dictatorship to a proclaimed Christian government, starring Denzel Washington, Anthony Hopkins, and Jennifer Garner.  It’s full of action, drama, and most importantly Christianity!  No, not really, but I got your attention didn’t I?  But there could be such a movie if the funding was there.  Or how would you like to see a comedy starring Jim Carrey about a guy with a case of mistaken identity and the mob is after him, with all of the hysterical hyjinks but with a Christian message at the end?  Or maybe your daughter would like to see a movie starring Lindsay Lohan about a teen who struggles with rejection and acceptance and finds her way through with the help of some Christian friends?           

All movies have a message, whether they are action, drama, comedy or family movies.  It’s the packaging that makes us want to see a specific movie.  Like, “Hey, I hear that the new Spiderman movie is going to have some amazing special effects”.  Or, “That new comedy looks hilarious.”  Well, we can do the same, and have a good message. No sex scenes, no unnecessary vulgarity, no graphic violence.  How many times have you or anyone you know, ever walked out of the movie theatre saying, “My favorite thing about the movie was that they used the “F” word fourteen times”?  Or, “I didn’t really believe that those two people were in love until I saw that graphic sex scene”?  In fact, most of us probably enjoy a movie with the exception of those scenes. They really don’t add to the plot at all.  It almost seems that these scenes are being added purposely to desensitize us or accustom us to these behaviors.

So how about making movies with all of the best aspects, leaving out all of the worst?  With the funds to create big ticket, blockbuster movies, starring big name actors, with a positive message, and no shocking vulgarity, people will be flocking to the theatre to see these films.  If people are choosing to see these movies, than they’re not seeing the other movies.  That means that we are not only positively impacting people, but we are also pulling the funding away from films who choose to add these vulgarities.  Thus if the old way no longer makes any money, it can not sustain its self, and moviemakers will have to adapt to cleaner films in order to just survive!  We could change the way the film industry makes movies!  Competition drives betterment.  There was just never anyone able to compete with them before now!