Movie time...

It’s been a long time since I read the book but I’m hoping to go see the movie soon.

 

Read Katherine Paterson’s  interview in Christianity Today.

I particularly like her answer to this question:

How does your Christian background inform the story?

I think C. S. Lewis said that a book cannot be what a writer is not. Who you are informs what you write on a very deep level. You reveal yourself whether you intend to or not. So you don’t signal that you’re a Christian; you write the story as well and as truthfully as you can because that’s how you glorify God, and you have to be true to the characters and who they are and how they talk. If it comes from a person who has a Christian hope and a Christian knowledge of grace, then I think hope and grace are going to infuse my work—not that I put them in, but because I can’t help having them there.

This is the concern I have with a lot of Christian fiction - it seems forced - more like a Christian pamphlet than story.
 

What do you think?

Have you read the book? Seen the movie?

Comments

[Susanne]

I have neither read it or seen the movie yet but all my kids want to go see it so we were going to make it a family thing. I love the way she answered that question!

[Jodi]

Read the book back in junior high (I should probably pick it up again), haven't seen the movie.

I dislike "Christian" fiction as a genre because, you're right, it does seem very forced. Most Christian authors can't seem to resist adding a moral the story rather than letting the story BE the moral. Most of it is just plain poor writing.

[violet]

I read 'Bridge' and other books by Katherine Paterson. I admire her a lot. I would see the movie.

I used to feel the same way as some others here about 'Christian ' fiction. Not so much any more. There is some great fiction currently being written and published by Christian publishing houses. Dale Cramer and Jamie Langston Turner are two authors I'd recommend.

On another topic, Kathie, I was just watching PEI curl in the tie breaker and noticed a 'Robin MacPhee' was part of Susanne Goudet's rink. Is she a relative, by any chance?

[Islandsparrow]

Violet, I don't think so. But maybe way back - they say that all Islanders are related way back :) My daughter's best friend is up there playing ringette.

[Kim in ON]

We just read the book this year. I think we'll see it, but wait until it comes out on video.