Entry #5: Superjesus! No, wait...Jesusman! No, uh...

I sure do write a lot of tangential entries, don't I? With that said, here's another tangential entry! 

                  When I was a wee Shelby, I wrote stories all the time. My first completed story was a crossover fanfiction between Neopets and Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends with the plot lifted verbatim from Lilo and Stitch 2: Stitch has a Glitch. No lie! I still have the story if anyone’s interested in reading what I had to say at age 9 ½.  

                  Later, when I wanted to write original stories, I had it in my head that if I didn’t write a story that was either Christian or a Biblical allegory, I would go to Hell. Enter my first developed character: Rin the wolf. Rin was a Jesus figure, the end. She was the sacrificial lamb that would save the world from the ultimate evil by dying (but she comes back to life in the end).

                  I never finished Rin’s story, but Rin went through the pipeline for a lot of my other stories and went under different names and appearances until I dropped the Jesus allegory all together and started working on my current pet project Corona.

                 

                  What I’m getting at is how Jesus allegories in movies can be kind of heavy handed. Ever seen Man of Steel? Remember this?

                  And this?

                  Yeah. Superman is Jesus. We got it.

                  Why do we integrate the Jesus arc into our movies so often? I don’t think it’s bad that we do, not at all. But, why do we do it?

                  Maybe it’s because the idea of a savior of the world is something we want in our protagonist so they have purpose. But, lately, that character type is pretty much everywhere, and pretty blatant, too.

                  If you wanna do a Bible allegory, more power to you. But, there are so many other fantastic stories in the Bible you can reference, and you can do the Jesus figure thing with finesse. If It’s a Wonderful Life is indeed trying to do what we read about it allegedly doing, I think that was done pretty skillfully.

                 

                  I might pick up Rin’s story again, maybe. If she’s still a Jesus allegory then, I hope I can execute it better than I did when I was young. I mean, I had a scene with her mounted on a cross. It was weird. Turning Jesus into a she-wolf might actually be kind of offensive, now that I think about it.

Here's an OLD OLD drawing of Rin when I used Photoshop for the first time:

Take it all in. Such Jesus wolf. Very Photoshop. Wow.