The Cultural Foundations of Screenwriting: Abrahamism, Part 2
In the continuation of his exploration into Western culture, Dimitri Vorontzov lays out some methods for interpreting Abrahamism in mainstream screenwriting and what that can mean for your story.
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Jan 22, 2021
In Part 1, we reviewed the Christian thematic influences at the core of James Cameron’s 1984 film
The Terminator. In today’s Part 2, we’ll review some of the methods we can apply to creatively interpret the mythology and ethics of Abrahamism in the works of mainstream screenwriting!
Contemporary Western reality is soaked in Christian thinking and even those of us who never set foot to church learned “cultural Christianity” indirectly from our parents, teachers, mentors, and from almost everything we read, watched, or listened to. We may not know the distant source of some of the ideas we use in everyday life, but we can safely expect those ideas to come from the Bible.