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donVutz wrote:
just took a peek of the article about the hulk movie and yes, it’s more than just funny.
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Questions
How would you characterise Hulks father? What does he want? How far would he go to get it?
How does Bruce continue to be the same person even though he has changed physically? Are we always the same? Who are you? Would you be a different person if you changed your name, or if you suddenly found yourself in a different body?
Do you think we are people who are made by our past? What effect do our ideas or commitments to what we will become in the future have on who we are? What is the most controlling thing in our pasts? Do you think that guilt from the past affects how we act in the future? Is there a way out of this cycle?
Can you remember a time when you lost your temper? Did you really have a choice? What did you do? How did you feel afterwards? How was the situation resolved - if at all?
Bruce Banner loses his temper and throws tanks around. We seem to lose our temper internally more often than we fly into a rage: we resolve not to help that person again, or not to invite them again. How can we recognise when we have unresolved and festering internalised grudges? Are there appropriate ways of dealing with anger? Is anger wrong in itself? If so, then was Jesus in the wrong when he turned the tables over?
Nietzsche wrote about how in each human being there is a will to power. He thought that as human beings we desire power. What do you think Hulk says about the human desire for power and authority? Is Bruces father grasping or being given power? Do you think that power corrupts? How is the fall of Satan related to the subject of power (Isaiah 14:13-15)?
In a postmodern view of the world, authority is seen pretty negatively. It is deduced from history that power corrupts character. A Christian view of power is that it entails responsibility, and a fall from a great height awaits anyone who divorces sound character (a healthy soul) from power. Why might power be sought as an end in itself? What would it be good to talk about from Hulk to someone who was lusting after power?
What words come into your head when you think about the word father? What might Bruce say to this last question? How can our concept of fathers affect our relationship with God? (http://www.sermonillustrator.org/illustrator/sermon4/your_concept_of_god.htm)
The enraged Hulk seems to be pacified by the affections of Betty Ross. What do you feel that Hulk is saying about the relationship between love and anger?
Is God angry at our rebellion against him? Do you feel that God is justified in being angry? Why cant God just forgive people for their sin? Why does sin have to die for God to be satisfied?
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Posted on Thu, 11 September 2003 at 18:40
