 There's a great movie called Shadowlands starring Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger. Hopkins plays a know-it-all philosopher professor, who teaches about courtship and romance and writes kids books. He thinks he's got it covered until Winger comes along. "I like a good fight," says the professor. "That's great," says Winger. "But when's the last time you lost?" Later in the movie he talks about how inquisitive he is, in a boastful way, and she sets him straight. "When was the last time you asked a question you didn't know the answer to?" Learning never stops. People who know all the answers, or pretend to, have simply forgotten to ask questions they don't know the answers to. BTW, it's a beautiful sweet movie, and even though we pity the Hopkins character, in the end he has great courage, and does the right thing. [Scripting News]
It might not be obvious from the movie itself, but "Shadowlands" is at least loosely based on the real life writing, marriage, and widowerhood of C.S. Lewis, one of Christendom's best-known modern writers—very few Christian teen-agers have not read The Chronicles of Narnia or The Screwtape Letters, while many Christian adults will at least be familiar with Mere Christianity. It's also worth noting that C.S. Lewis was agnostic for most of his adult life, but was persuaded of the truth of Christianity largely through conversations with his good friend and fellow writer of epic fantasy, J.R.R. Tolkien.
I note also with some pleasure that The Screwtape Letters audiocasette is read by Joss Ackland, who also portrayed Lewis in a BBC production of Shadowlands.
It's true that Shadowlands is a great story—all the more so because it's true.
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