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Hell in Fiction
Dawidos:
Well, we don't believe in Hell, but I like what man imagination can creates :D :D. There are "nice" ;) portrayals of Hell for example in Constantine, the movie based on the popular comic book series. A mixture of traditional visions combined with modern architecture, I would say :)
Information from Wikipedia
Hell is depicted in the film as a place which appears to have been struck by a nuclear bomb. According to the DVD commentary, it was indeed based on old nuclear test in which anything in the path of the ensuing shock wave was immediately disintegrated. As of such, the landscape was left crumbling with a constant hue of orange in the sky and immensely strong winds over the land. According to the novel[7] which was released alongside the film, the buildings were lined with blood instead of mortar and the souls of the damned had been crushed in ways that made up the very foundations and building materials of the buildings. In other areas, demons would feast on the souls of the damned in large groups (as is depicted in the film where a great deal of souls are being desecrated by attacking soldier demons). The book also describes how the landscape of hell is a mirror of that of the physical plane: “If you died in Los Angeles, you went to Hell Los Angeles. If you died in New York, you went to Hell New York.” According to Constantine, time in Hell also passes with immense relativity to that of time in the physical plane. While speaking with Angela on his time in Hell immediately after his suicide, he claimed that, "...I was officially dead for only two minutes; but when you cross over, time stops. Take it from me, two minutes in Hell is a lifetime." This was visibly observed towards the end of the film after John’s second suicide.
Some pictures :)
A lot of talking and seeing of Hell, but don't worry - there is also a vision of Heaven.
Information from Wikipedia
Heaven also appears to be a mirror of the physical plane. As seen at the end of the film, Heaven also features the Los Angeles geography, as Hell did, but the city is intermixed with large clouds and a bright, golden sun illuminating the entire city.
Very nice. :) :)
Now, some spoilers
By the way, don't be offended by the gesture shown by the protagonist. It's not directed to God, but to Lucifer/Satan. That's how Constantine expressed his joy of escaping Satan's hand. Aha, the movie implies that the Angels are very jealous of God's love for manking and his continuous mercy towards us (as long as they repent) and that the best way to escape Hell and reedem your person is a altruistic self-sacrifice (Constantine commits another suicide, knowing it will cost him eternity in Hell, but he does it to summon Lucifer and ask him to release another person's soul from Hell, and because of that he is deemed worthy to enter Heaven). I would like to see sequel of this movie very much.
Do you know others movies (funny, scary etc) with depictions of Hell or Heaven?
Shawn Fainn:
There seem to be a lot of Heaven/Hell or Apocalyptic type movies that have been released the past few years.
Legion, 2012, etc.. I don't really care too much for them anymore, but used to be a big horror movie buff. I think perhaps one of the weirdest demonic type movies I watched before was an old film named Rawhead Rex. It had some freaky urine/baptism scene that I have never forgotten.
Aside from that, I do still enjoy a good video game. Doom 3 was so scary I got headaches from it - I don't mind going to hell if I have a shotgun/chainsaw to kick some demon booty though. :)
Aatos:
while not a movie, the video game series 'Silent Hill' is about a small town that alter itself to reflect the Hell inside of person. It reaches into the unconscious mind, and manifests things that the characters would rather not see.
that's all that comes to mind right now.
jassy:
While not a depiction of hell the prison planet of Crematoria in the movie Chronicles of Riddick was the best hellish environment I have ever seen.
Whoever thought that up should have been given an oscar for imagination.
Dawidos:
--- Quote from: Shawn on September 08, 2010, 07:26:15 AM ---few years.
Legion, 2012, etc.. I don't really care too much for them anymore, but used to be a big horror movie buff.
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I hate Legion. Stupid movie with no logic. God losing faith in manking (God without faith, can you imagine?), angels being possessing demons, good fallen archangel with machine guns and the new messiah supposed to be born (if God wants to destroy humankind, why he lets the messiah conception and birth).
--- Quote --- I think perhaps one of the weirdest demonic type movies I watched before was an old film named Rawhead Rex. It had some freaky urine/baptism scene that I have never forgotten.
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You mean this movie with this scene Rawhead Rex. What is going on? Is it a demon from Hell and this...hmm..priest is his servant or what?
--- Quote ---Aside from that, I do still enjoy a good video game. Doom 3 was so scary I got headaches from it - I don't mind going to hell if I have a shotgun/chainsaw to kick some demon booty though. :)
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Please, tell me, do you really fight demons from Hell or just aliens from other realm in this game? I would like to try it :)
--- Quote ---while not a movie, the video game series 'Silent Hill' is about a small town that alter itself to reflect the Hell inside of person. It reaches into the unconscious mind, and manifests things that the characters would rather not see.
that's all that comes to mind right now.
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I have Silent Hill 2, but I still haven't played it. Anyway, great motif you mentioned
--- Quote ---While not a depiction of hell the prison planet of Crematoria in the movie Chronicles of Riddick was the best hellish environment I have ever seen.
Whoever thought that up should have been given an oscar for imagination.
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You mean this planet (rocky hell, great :D :D)
--- Quote ---do not img anything in Heaven,on earth,on the sea.
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Just fun here, nothing serious and spiritual.
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