Yesterday I tried to re-watch IMPROMPTU, a comedic account of a romantic attraction between Chopin and novelist G. Sands, in France, mid 1800s. I saw it over a year ago, while collecting bio-pics of better known artists, etc. Well, when the French ducchess first has the handful of artists out from Paris (she's starved for 'culture'), the first dinner is quite intriguing. She opens by asking 'I understand atheism is quite popular in Paris now; what do you say?'
The first answer from a sculptor was that 'God exists, but it is not worth putting effort into saying he does not.'
The 2nd was a priest who said 'God has left his marks all over the world, but everyone is trying to fill the marks with dust so that you cannot see them any more.'
The 3rd was a painter who said 'God is very sad about what the world has become, like in the days of Noah, but this time He's not talking to anyone about it.'
I was intrigued enough by these responses that I made up a handout sheet to use as an outreach. Who would refuse to look at a 'secular' movie excerpt about the famous Chopin and friends?
This year (yesterday) I just went to watch it again, and the scene is GONE! Garsh, is Amazon or the producer so worried about being politically correct 20 YEARS LATER that they have to remove a scene that is 'honest to God'? If so, it is rather disgusting that marketing or corporate interests can do this to a published-produced script. Which is why I wrote one of my novels about the BBC changing the gender of a character in a classic movie for the sake of 'equalization'.