Media is such a diverse spectrum in today’s society. Movies especially, offer many different
viewpoints, and often time’s very controversial scenes. Going to see a rated PG
13 movie now shows more nudity and violence than what a Rated R movie showed
ten years ago. With the growing popularity of these scandalous movies there are
still directors who seek to write a film based on religious morals. However,
these directors and film writers seem to get much more negative publicity than
the major produces releasing filthy movies all around the world.
Kirk
Cameron, a former star on the hit TV series Growing Pains, recently released a
movie titled Unstoppable. The
film is about faith and God it is based on the popular question asked by
numerous people: Why does God let bad things happen to good people? Social
media blocked the trailer to the film stating that it was offensive, and
unsafe. Watch the trailer here: http://kirkcameron.com/2013/09/social-media-blocked-unstoppable-trailer-fans-complained/
This
trailer was very conservative and provided no “unsafe” or “offensive”
connotations. In a society where there are racial discriminations and other
offensive subjects being placed into movies it is absurd to me how this film
was blocked from social media sights. However, Facebook as well as YouTube did
block the trailer and it remained blocked until a large group of people
complained and fought to get the trailer back onto these sights. This movie
appealed to a certain cultural groups (Christians) and the symbolic meaning
(Brummett, 2011) of the movie was very important and deserved to be advertised
regardless if some people disagreed with the content. The movie is portrayed to use symbolic
language upfront, they did not try to hide messages throughout the content of
the movie unlike many popular big named movies.
Text: used for symbolic meaning-
Brumett,
Barry (2011), Rhetoric Popular Culture- Third editi
