Religious Worldview Paper – Film Analysis (750–1000 words)

Select a film from the choices below and analyze its religious themes. Once you have identified the religious themes, you will begin to determine how they relate to the doctrines of Judaism, Islam, or Christianity. Film options include:

• Meet Joe Black
• Interstellar
• The Apostle
• The Lion King
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• The Matrix
• Contact
• Any of the Harry Potter films
• Seven Days in Utopia

Instructions

Choose a film and identify its religious themes. Your focus will be twofold:

1) What the religious themes are

2) How the movie communicates those themes

Keep in mind that films are full of varied ways of communicating their themes: dialogue, cinematography, images, lighting and coloring, the arrangement of scenes, setting, characters’ wardrobes, as well as several other devices.

You are to find the religious themes and discuss how the film communicates them, being especially mindful of any connections with the doctrines and principles of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

This paper should be between 750–1000 words and must conform to all relevant MLA formatting guidelines.