I guess because with books, in your mind, you can create your own view of the story. In the movies, you generally turn your mind off and just receive. And that manipulation of your emotions with music is kind of creepy, don't you think?
Another thing I definitely don't like in movies and books is when they portray heavenly beings such as Jesus, the Holy Spirit, angels, and the apostles and put words in their mouth. Like I said, I find that blasphemous on the one hand and tremendously tacky on the other.
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I get that. There's a part of my head always working, though, while I'm watching a movie or reading a book. In both instances, I can get fully immersed in the story. That is, until I spot a woke agenda or serious anti-Christian slap. Where anybody religious is shown as stupid, a failure, secretly the villain, etc. Or when I'm getting an Alphabet Soup indoctrination. I usually drop the book or turn off the set.
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Yeah, I get that. And it's shaky ground, but I've definitely written that in stories. In one, God speaks directly to the main character of a book, telling them specific instructions to go down and stop a human sacrifice. Pretty much as an answer to prayer. And I've gotten that before, and I bet you have, too. Where you pray for divine help, and God tells you in an inner voice what to do (or where to look for the keys or glasses).
In another instance, at the end of that book, a character is mostly dead, but instructed by a friend to go back to the living, that there is more for her to do. The other character is actually a sentient tree, so there's that, too.
In a sequel, a main character and a friend are blown up, and end up in the same scene, watching it in slow motion as it's transpiring - the family trying to rescusitate them, the enemy being vanquished, etc. Superimposed over the same scene, which is now transluscent and grey, is a brightly colored hill with a golden city at the top. The other girl's parents descend the stairs to tell the girl she's not able to come with them. At the same time, an angel talks with the MC, and shows her where the main villain is being hauled across a chasm to a place of torment to await final judgement. She wakes up in a hospital ward and wonders if it was all a dream.
In one of my other series, and this is the furthest I've ever gone, the MC is struggling to reach a certain spot to free his friends, fighting against what seem like all-powerful fairies (not the nice kind, more modeled after the fae I suppose.) The entire scene (and time itself) is stopped by an old man who sits on a boulder and talks with him. He discovers through the course of the conversation that he's talking with God. That's a concerning place to be, putting words in God's mouth. None of what's said there is out of character with the God of the Bible. I hesitated to do it, but it seemed the correct thing to do. The main plot point of the series, that God wanted to communicate the text of the Bible to that alternate dimension. The faith to believe it was already there, like the OT saints of old. That scene and the ones following pretty much wrap up the series in a nice bow.
Anyway, I don't expect you'd like it given your statements above. And I do know I'll have to answer for these scenes. But I expect I'll be there with CS Lewis concerning his scenes with Aslan, or Screwtape and his letters. So at least I'll have company, and my heart was in the right place.
. I do understand the pros and cons stated.
