 | The Shipping
News (2001)
 | Quoyle learns that his family had been banished from
another island for their evil. There is a scene in
which we see them dragging the ancestral home
across the ice, as they have been evicted from their
Eden. (Darrel Manson, Artesia, CA) |
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| Tarzan
(1999)
| Paradise/Garden of Eden - Garden of
Eden is defiled by "civilization" or "evil men" entering it. (See review at Hollywood Jesus) |
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| A Simple Plan (1998)
| Hank is forced to leave the innocence of the world that
he later learns was Paradise. |
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| The Thin Red Line
(1998)
| scenes of war juxtaposed with scenes of
light/sounds of nature, representing paradise defiled. |
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| The Truman Show
(1998)
| Truman leaves the illusory "paradise" at end of movie
- leaving the Garden of Eden for "real life". |
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| Pleasantville (1998)
| The loss of innocence - leaving the Garden. |
| Quote from the "garden of Eden". Girl asks boy "What's it
like outside of Pleasantville?" He answers that it is: A lot noisier, kind
of scary, and a lot more dangerous. She replies, "Sounds wonderful!" with a
huge smile and the sparkle of wonderment in her eyes. (Alix
Pridgen) |
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| Amistad (1997)
| Cinque pulled from Paradise. |
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| Anaconda (1997)
| The snake in the "paradise" of the Amazon
Rain Forest - Paradise Restored at end of film. (see review at Hollywood
Jesus) |
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| Robocop (1987)
| Verhoeven says in the DVD commentary that he is
consciously creating Paradise Lost when Robo/Murphy visits Murphy's
house and remembers his family. |
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