Thanks for your comments, Prisca.

Thanks for your comments, Prisca. The underlying point of my Theology of Screenwriting series is that themes such as Redemption, Incarnation, Grace, and the like are present in secular movies all the time. Indeed, if one looks at the Christ story as one in which he gave up his life for others, that is echoed over and over and over again in movies in which a character moves from selfishness to selflessness, e.g., Schindler’s List, Leon: The Professional, Casablanca, Django Unchained, Up, Mad Max: Fury Road.

Whether overtly religious or not, these themes speak to the universality of human experience and thus, as writers, we can mine them in our own stories.