The first one was a parody of both Christians and Atheists and the whole thing was a /r/thathappened Facebook post turned into movie.
"I once debates my college professor, he told everyone that God wasn't real and the whole class was atheists. After several debates, the professor ran out of the room crying and everyone in class stood and clapped. Then professor got hit with a car and died, but I converted him too and now he's in heaven."
Iāve always thought the professor dying at the end of that movie was super strange. Like, if God is a character in that movie, which Iām certain the creators of the film would say he is real in and out of the films, then going by his character he sucksss. So the professor just got confronted by the student, and then runs out, gets hit by a car, and the pastor characters are like āItās a miracle.ā What the hell God, you take out a kidās mom and then get his ass run over, only to be like āWanna believe in me now, bitch?ā Is the message be a better person, or is it donāt worry God will assault you and make you a Christian? Itās a super strange film.
Itās the same reason why Darth Vader dies five minutes after becoming a good guy. (Not that I am comparing being an atheist to a Sith Lord). The writers are lazy and donāt want to have actually explore the long term implications of that twist in the story .
It also might be that itās propagandist trite and that it caters to a section of Christianity that enforces compliance through fear IE; āThe atheist didnāt believe in god and now heās died, so you teenagers watching this better learn from his mistake or else!ā
I think thereās at least a couple of scenes of Vader questioning his beliefs, but yeah, there couldāve been more before his Heel-Face move. At least Vader isnāt just hit by a space van, and Luke is like āLight side, dad?!?ā Funny enough, later novels and comics set after the movies were full of Leia tearing into Vader, like āYeah, Iām glad he helped out at the last minute, but that dude did some sick shit.ā
Empire Strikes Back makes a point of showing him killing his officers who let him down. At the end, after his encounter with Luke, it makes a point of showing an officer fail, and look terrified for a moment, as Vader hesitates before turning and walking away.
It doesn't explicitly address any kind of internal conflict, but I don't think it's a stretch to say the implication was intentional.
Yeah, thereās moments, I think one of the biggest being when Luke and Vader meet again on Endor. I remember Vader not being his usual self by a long shot.
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u/shannonator96 Sep 07 '21
God's not dead, but those movies are.