{"id":35112,"date":"2008-05-15T19:56:59","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T02:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lookingcloser.wordpress.com\/?p=3420"},"modified":"2013-03-18T10:55:26","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T16:55:26","slug":"the-browser-515-lynch-and-herzog-collaborating-city-of-ember-caspians-pg-ebert-plays-twister-adamson-on-caspian-horton-versus-expelled-david-darks-next-and-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/2008\/05\/the-browser-515-lynch-and-herzog-collaborating-city-of-ember-caspians-pg-ebert-plays-twister-adamson-on-caspian-horton-versus-expelled-david-darks-next-and-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Caspian’s PG and David Dark’s Next"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Did Prince Caspian<\/em> get the right rating?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cinematical\u2019s Eric Snider thinks the \u201cPG\u201d is misleading<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2026 watch The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian<\/em><\/a> and marvel at how such a violent movie magically got the kid-friendly PG rating.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t know the rating before I watched it, and I didn\u2019t remember, off the top of my head, whether the first Chronicles of Narnia<\/em> was PG. (It was.) As Prince Caspian<\/em> unfolded, I noted that there was an awful lot of stabbing, throat-slitting, and other killing, though I also noted that it was almost entirely bloodless. I figured it was the lack of gore that had prevented the film from being rated R, and that it was instead a moderately violent PG-13.<\/p>\n

So I was flabbergasted to discover afterward that it was rated PG.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dark\u2019s next<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Stephen Lamb<\/strong> is blogging about<\/a> hearing David Dark<\/strong> read a sneak preview of his upcoming book The Sacredness of Questioning Everything<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

One point [Dark] kept returning to is \u201cwho\u2019s really evangelical?\u201d As I\u2019ve mentioned before, I stay away from that label because of the negative connotations. But I\u2019m hearing more and more people, like David, trying to reclaim the label. (Donald Miller is even identifying himself now as a Fundamentalist, trying to take back that label.) David said that too often, the vibe we get from the church is \u201cI\u2019m Christian, because I\u2019m offended.\u201d But we are called to something different, \u201cwe are called to better imagining,\u201d not for ways to be offended and cry foul.<\/p>\n

In David\u2019s upcoming book, each chapter will be devoted to questioning a different thing. He mentioned questioning The Future, Being Offended, Religion, Government, and the Media; I think he said there will be ten or eleven chapters in all. He read an excerpt to us from one chapter on what he learned while watching Michael Scott on an episode of NBC\u2019s The Office. He mentioned that, \u201cwhat we call comedy is the space where everything can be talked about.\u201d<\/p>\n

A quote that has meant a lot to him recently is from John Howard Yoder \u2013 \u201cJesus has the power to unendingly meet new worlds.\u201d And because of that, if we believe it is true, we don\u2019t have to be afraid of things changing, of post-modernism or other shifts in our culture and in our lives\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Did Prince Caspian get the right rating? Cinematical\u2019s Eric Snider thinks the \u201cPG\u201d is misleading. \u2026 watch The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and marvel at how such a violent movie magically got the kid-friendly PG rating. I didn\u2019t know the rating before I watched it, and I didn\u2019t remember, off the top of my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1051,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[482,1005,1271,1424],"class_list":["post-35112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-david-dark","tag-prince-caspian","tag-ratings","tag-the-sacredness-of-questioning-everything"],"yoast_head":"\nCaspian's PG and David Dark's Next<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Did Prince Caspian get the right rating? 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