Episode #29: Follow Your Heart And Other Hollywood Lies

<p dir="ltr">In the twenty-ninth episode of The Babylon Bee podcast, editor-in-chief Kyle Mann and creative director Ethan Nicolle welcome back recurring guest and film expert <a href="https://godawa.com/">Brian Godawa</a>. They discuss the recurring existentialist theme in film of "just follow your heart" which always works out okay because our hearts are not idol factories or anything. In the subscriber portion, they go through the best all-time pro-life films (whether they intended to be or not).</p> <p dir="ltr">Brian Godawa is an award-winning Hollywood screenwriter (To End All Wars), a movie and culture blogger specializing in God, Movies, and Worldviews, author of a textbook, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hollywood-Worldviews-Watching-Wisdom-Discernment/dp/1459632885"> Hollywood Worldviews</a>: Watching Films with Wisdom and Discernment as well as an Amazon best-selling author of Biblical fiction (Chronicles of the Nephilim/Chronicles of the Apocalypse).</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Movies/Shows Mentioned</strong></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Veggietales In The House episode: Laura At Bat</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Joe Vs. The Volcano</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Stranger Than Fiction</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>The Truman Show </em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Groundhog Day</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>City Slickers</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>13 Conversations About 1 Thing</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Titanic</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>I Heart Huckabees</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Unstrung Heroes</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Box of Moonlight</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Forrest Gump </em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Shopgirl</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Synechdoche, New York</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>The Fault in Our Stars</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Boyhood</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Frozen</em></p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Also mentioned: </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Mike Rowe on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVEuPmVAb8o">Don't Follow Your Passion</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Ben Shapiro Interviewing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBxAQYmPHDA">Neil Degrasse Tyson</a></p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Paid-subscriber portion: </strong><br /> Brian Godawa gives us his list of the most pro-life movies, whether it was intentional or not. </p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Pro-life movies mentioned:</strong></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Juno</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Bella</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>The Island</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Knocked Up</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Three Extremes</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Waitress</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>17 Again</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>August Rush (adoption)</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>October Baby</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Room </em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Into the Forest </em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Unplanned</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Gosnell</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><br /> Become a paid subscriber at <a href="https://babylonbee.com/plans">https://babylonbee.com/plans</a></p>