Here is a theory -- there is a huge audience of fundamentalist and otherwise devoted Christians in the US. They don't get much to reaffirm their world view in reality, so they crave it in fiction, and are so keen to see it that they flock to fiction that affirms their world view, in numbers big enough to make significant difference to the bottom line.
People who believe in science, on the other hand, get to see it in reality all the time. Fancy gadgets, modern medicine, and a lot of real heroes. When they want to see their world view reaffirmed, they don't want to see fiction, they can see a documentary. So their depiction in films doesn't matter as much to the bottom line.
Maybe that is it. They have Hollywood, we have reality.
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Date: 2009-04-29 05:26 am (UTC)People who believe in science, on the other hand, get to see it in reality all the time. Fancy gadgets, modern medicine, and a lot of real heroes. When they want to see their world view reaffirmed, they don't want to see fiction, they can see a documentary. So their depiction in films doesn't matter as much to the bottom line.
Maybe that is it. They have Hollywood, we have reality.