For Greater Glory, formerly called Cristiada, has finally found a distributor and is set for release in the United States on June 1, 2012. The film retells the efforts of Mexican peasants to resist the efforts of their atheistic, totalitarianizing government to stamp out the Catholic Church. (H/t Roratae Caeli).
The new trailer’s a little more… well, Hollywood, than the original one. Still, it’ll be nice to see a movie depicting the Catholic Church at a time when it still inspired passion and loyalty in men, before it was gutted by renegades and heretics.
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It looks promising.
If by “more Hollywood” you mean “I believe in freedom” then yeah, and plenty of violence. Although Mel Gibson slipped a nationalist ethnic classic in under the guise of “Freedom!” glopped over with violence (Braveheart)
And Eva Longoria–hot tamale!
The trailer suggests the movie is about fighting for what you believe-in (PC), a minority fighting against authoritarianism and that what this minority believes-in is freedom (Neo-con, libertarian, or nationalist).
But I noticed some people dressed as priests and a statue of Jesus – does this movie maybe have something to do with Christianity as well?
My point? In the mainstream media, pro-Christian sentiments must be presented *subliminally*, by indirect hints.
Rather as Vaclav Havel describes the way that anti-Communist criticisms were presented in plays during the late Soviet era.
Good observations. There are several movies I’ve watched in recent years that seem perhaps to fit the “covert” model you suggest. The overall theme of the movie is PC-acceptable, but then there are also very deep and very explicit Christian messages, usually in the form of a symbol, that poke through here and there, that are unmistakeable, and that are entirely unnecessary and perhaps even antithetical to what appears to be the PC line that is otherwise toed throughout the movie. These symbols that come through are so explicit as to have had the effect of at least partially redeeming what would otherwise be rotten movies in my estimation. “To End All Wars” and “The Great Raid” come to mind.
Indeed. Notice how Spanish is rendered into English in the film (typical for non-Anglophone settings) except for “Viva Cristo Rey.” Now, it could be that they retained the Spanish because it sounds awesome for a rallying cry. Or it could be that it was too explicit . . .
Still, we’ll happily make our advances, covert or not. In Hollywood, we must now plan low flying missions while the enemy is stronger. Eventually, we’ll be able to send in the bombers. It’s a shame that Brietbart died so young . . . his death set back the desired bomber missions by a long spell.
Followed the link to the original trailer– it’s much better, but such pro-Christian sentiment is verboten in Moloch’s America. Who knows? Perhaps it fears that a few decades hence there will be an army of “Cristeros” operating to-and-fro in the US borders, and it deosn’t want the Christians getting any ideas…
It may not be known, may never be known, how, if at all, the film For Greater Glory differs from Cristiada. Obviously the studios choose and edit the trailers. They want to sell tickets. All art needs patronage, whether of the typical drivel or of profound beauty. Needless to say there is much promising with this film, for to tell the story with any degree of honesty is to tell an inherently anti-revolutionary story. Maybe Hollywood leftists screwed it up, maybe they compromised the story for a bit of PC-ness, or maybe they had enough integrity to tell the honest story. Let’s go see it and find out.
Left out Masonic.
The fairly sizable marketing campaign for the film (still called Cristiada, with a cross for the t) here in Mexico is quite explicitly Christian.
The main feature of the poster I’ve been seeing everywhere is a picture of Pope Benedict, with a message saying “Welcome to the heart of Mexico! Thank you Holy Father for recognizing our Cristero martyrs…” Below which two of the martyrs (Anacleto Gonzalez Flores & José Sánchez del Río) are pictured and below that the film’s title and release date. Nary a mention of Longoria.
For those missing the context, while he was in Guanajuato, the Pope gave his mass in front of the Cristo Rey monument and also made a point of flying over it to get a view from the plane.
Slightly OT, but this little anecdote from the Pope’s Latin American jaunt would probably interest Orthosphericals:
“The pope said Castro, who was raised a Catholic, asked about the reasons for the changes in the liturgy after the Second Vatican Council”
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I have just watched it. Very good movie and the Christian message is clear, No nudity, no crass language, no despising of religion but Christianity is seen under a positive light. Good acting and an emotive storyline. A small jewel.
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