The Art of Story Telling...

Here is a link to a great interview Ralph Winter, the producer of The Fantastic Four and upcoming X3.

http://www.lookingcloser.org/ralphwinter-interview.htm

Here is a one excerpt.

"When movies are about God on the surface, when they're "Christian" art and entertainment, they rarely seem to captivate an audience. Why?

Winter: [Christians] want to dot every "i" and cross every "t" and make sure it's uber-clear what's happened by the end of the story. We've lost the ability to create mystery and wonder.

Movies are not good at giving answers. Movies are great at asking questions. Movies that do that are lasting.

I love the movie Gladiator. It's inspiring. It's a wonderful journey of someone who is sort of an also-ran in the process, but who aspires to greatness and asks the huge questions. It seems to be about "Win the crowd and win your freedom." But I think that movie is truly about love, and not just about choosing. Even when Commodus smothers his dad, what is it that he says? "If you would have loved me, I would have butchered the whole world." He wants love as well—in a different sense than Maximus, but it is about love at some level."