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P.D. James

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Alfonso Cuarón

"Children of Men": Literary sabotage, or award-winning adaptation?

The debate continues: Did the screenwriters for Children of Men take a novel written by a Christian, which offered a profoundly Christian vision of human depravity and redemption, and turn it into an attack on Christianity? Or were they just interested in taking P.D. James' premise and exploiting
14 Jan 2007 1 min read
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Cuaron on "Children of Men" and Christian Themes

Thanks to Steven Greydanus for catching this revealing admission from Alfonso Cuarón regarding Children of Men: Cuarón: There was a script and I read the beginning of it and didn’t like it. I wasn’t interested in making a science fiction film and secondly I wasn’t interested in
09 Jan 2007
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