VATICAN "CONSOLED" BY POOR BOX OFFICE FOR COMPASS
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VATICAN "CONSOLED" BY POOR BOX OFFICE FOR COMPASS
In an editorial packed with schadenfreude, the Vatican newspaper l"Osservatore Romano said that it found the mediocre box office for New Line's The Golden Compass "consoling." The film had been denounced in America by the Catholic League, the country's largest Catholic lay group, as an introduction to atheism. Although the film itself has no overt anti-religious message the Philip Pullman book trilogy on which it is based, does, and the Catholic League had expressed concern that children who were expossed to the movie would be drawn to the book. "In Pullman's world, hope simply does not exist, because there is no salvation but only personal, individualistic capacity to control the situation and dominate events," Wednesday's editorial said. The editorial also took note of reports that poor returns for the movie would discourage the studio from producing a sequel. "If that should happen, it wouldn't be a big loss," the newspaper said.
20/12/2007
