"The
Fourth Man has to do with my vision of religion. In my opinion,
Christianity is nothing more than one of many interpretations of
reality, neither more nor less. Ideally, it would be nice to believe
that there is a God somewhere out there, but it looks to me as if the
whole Christian religion is a major symptom of schizophrenia in half the
world's population: civilizations scrambling to ratio
nalize
their chaotic existence. Subsequently, Christianity has a tendency to
look like magic or the occult. And I liked that ambiguity, because I
wanted my audience to take something home with them. I wanted them to
wonder about what religion really is. Remember, that Christianity is a
religion grounded in one of the most violent acts of murder, the
crucifixion. Otherwise, religion wouldn't have had any kind of impact.
With regards to the irony of the violence, much of that probably comes
from my childhood experiences during and immediately following the
Second World War. In fact, if it hadn't been for the German occupation
and then the American occupation, I would have never been a filmmaker."
Paul Verhoeven (film director, screenwriter and producer best known for
RoboCop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct and Starship Troopers)
"The
Fourth Man has to do with my vision of religion. In my opinion,
Christianity is nothing more than one of many interpretations of
reality, neither more nor less. Ideally, it would be nice to believe
that there is a God somewhere out there, but it looks to me as if the
whole Christian religion is a major symptom of schizophrenia in half the
world's population: civilizations scrambling to ratio
nalize
their chaotic existence. Subsequently, Christianity has a tendency to
look like magic or the occult. And I liked that ambiguity, because I
wanted my audience to take something home with them. I wanted them to
wonder about what religion really is. Remember, that Christianity is a
religion grounded in one of the most violent acts of murder, the
crucifixion. Otherwise, religion wouldn't have had any kind of impact.
With regards to the irony of the violence, much of that probably comes
from my childhood experiences during and immediately following the
Second World War. In fact, if it hadn't been for the German occupation
and then the American occupation, I would have never been a filmmaker."
Paul Verhoeven (film director, screenwriter and producer best known for RoboCop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct and Starship Troopers)
Paul Verhoeven (film director, screenwriter and producer best known for RoboCop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct and Starship Troopers)
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