A new movie will attempt to bring JAMES DEAN (pictured) back from the dead to be its star. This is very creepy, especially considering that Dean died in 1955 and the movie is about VietNam, which occurred AFTER his demise...
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/james-dean-set-star-new-film-through-digital-resurrection-horrifying-n1078051
For the longest time after I became a Christian (1975), I couldn't watch movies starring dead actors. The new awareness I had that the deceased are either in Heaven or Hell was prominent in my mind to the point that I thought "WHEREVER this actor is, he or she regrets wasting the time to MAKE this piece....so why should I waste precious time to WATCH it?"
SOME new Christians give up watching certain movies for OTHER reasons....THAT was MINE, believe it or not.
Extreme?? Maybe. Mind you, I've moderated over the years to the extent that I'm ABLE to watch old movies with dead actors now...for the most part. (Still can't watch "Rocky V," which used to be one of my favorites, since the very tragic deaths of Tommy Morrison and Sage Stallone, however. In that case, though, it's HOW they died which hurts me to the point that I can't re-watch that movie yet.) But I still believe that dead former actors (who, Biblically speaking, are either in the glories of Heaven or pains of Hell now) REGRET wasting time on earth to make movies. It's just that, pardon the pun, I've learned to "live" with death better.
However, I am totally against this new idea Hollywood has to use footage of dead actors from PAST movies, via CGI wizardry, to create starring roles for them in NEW movies....as if they never died. Hey, it's one thing the way they have preserved images of dead people in movies already filmed. It's quite another matter to exploit those images, via technology, to create NEW films. You see, EVERY movie becomes "The Walking Dead" in that latter scenario...but then again way Zombie TV shows and movies are so POPULAR these days, hey, the concept might be a big hit.
Not with ME, though. (I hate Zombie movies.)
And I'm not the ONLY one who is against exploiting dead actors by "making" them "come back to life"!! I'm sure LIVING actors will object, because which of the male stars today could compete with a resurrected JOHN WAYNE, for instance?? Since he died 40 years ago NO ONE has taken Duke's place. And, though I personally don't think MARILYN MONROE is beautiful a lot of the Hollywood actresses TODAY would not want THEIR movie competing against a new one with "her" in it, in the near future.
Here is one perspective I will NEVER outgrow....MAN IS INCESSANT TO "BE LIKE GOD," WHETHER THAT INVOLVES TEST-TUBE DESIGNER BABIES (while the Bible makes it plain that GOD designs each one of us in the womb) OR TRYING TO BRING THE DEAD BACK TO LIFE, AT LEAST ON THE SILVER SCREEN (Scripture teaches that God ALONE can resurrect the dead.)
Modern man seems to think that just because they "can" do something they "should" do something, but man can never "be like God"!! It was tried, back in the Garden of Eden, and just LOOK at all the pain Adam and Eve's sin has caused.
And for THAT reason ALONE, movies that try to resurrect the dead are NOT okay with ME...and never will be.
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