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WT02.04 The Wicker Man (1973)

Watching Theology April 15th, 2008

The Wicker Man (1973)Somewhere on an island outside Scotland, Christopher Lee has built the perfect neo-Pagan civilization. There you will find fertility rites, folk music and a frolicking Britt Ekland (and her body double). You will also witness a clash of civilizations that hasn't been seen since St. Patrick brought Christianity to the heathens in Ireland. On this episode, we'll explore Summerisle and its devotion to the old gods and how that may affect the life of a Christian police officer investigating the disappearance of a young girl.
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2 Responses to “WT02.04 The Wicker Man (1973)”

Christov April 26th, 2008

It's not really a comment on your show, but I sometimes wonder about actors who have been typecast in the sorts of borderline scare roles, like Christopher Lee or Vincent Price – where they are spiritually or theologically.

Forwarding Andrew July 6th, 2009

And now for something not so different…

>>>Robin Hardy's long awaited Cowboys For Christ is finally in production. Some shooting has already taken place in the US and the filmmakers are reportedly in the midst of the Scottish shoot right now.

>>>Hardy's 1973 directorial debut The Wicker Man is truly one of the most jubilantly beloved films in the pantheon of British genre pictures. I still see it doing abundant business as late night screenings, and pretty much everybody I speak to holds it close and dear, including those of us all too aware of its shortcomings. For a good few years now, Hardy has been touting Cowboys as a kind of follow up, a 'spiritual successor' to feature a number of the same ingredients as Wicker Man: a clash between pagans and Christians, a remote rural location, Christopher Lee as a mysterious aristocrat.

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