Originally posted by: C3PX
Exegesis - "to read out of"
Eisegesis - "to read into"
Unfortunately in our modern world exegesis is becoming obsolete, as everyone rushes to read everything into everything else. Like lordjedi said, if you didn't know when Lord of the Rings was written it could be taken as a warning of where America is heading. You can read anything into anything you want. This is why 300 has been taken by so many to be complete propaganda in favor of taking out Iran. This is why so many have considered Children of Men to be somewhat about the current state of imigration in the US. You could take anything and make it anything else. This is why the Bible has been made to say and mean so many things is doesn't over the centuries. When you bring all this baggage with you into your arts and entertainment you are going to end up with some very "deep" and "profound" things that were never there to begin with.
That is really stupid about the "truth, justice and everything else", very retarded. I am getting sick of anti-Americanism in the US. Every other country has their right to be anti-American for whatever reason they choose, but for Americans to do it, this really proves the rotten state of things. That particular line would not have been one of those typically American things in a film. Usually the "typically American" things in films have to do with the very enthocentic world view Americans generally have, or just glaring bits of American culture that inevitable show up in own movies. Every culture has this, only Americans export a lot more films and TV shows than other countries do. Every culture has their quarks, America's just more visable to the rest of the world through our exported media.
Exegesis - "to read out of"
Eisegesis - "to read into"
Unfortunately in our modern world exegesis is becoming obsolete, as everyone rushes to read everything into everything else. Like lordjedi said, if you didn't know when Lord of the Rings was written it could be taken as a warning of where America is heading. You can read anything into anything you want. This is why 300 has been taken by so many to be complete propaganda in favor of taking out Iran. This is why so many have considered Children of Men to be somewhat about the current state of imigration in the US. You could take anything and make it anything else. This is why the Bible has been made to say and mean so many things is doesn't over the centuries. When you bring all this baggage with you into your arts and entertainment you are going to end up with some very "deep" and "profound" things that were never there to begin with.
That is really stupid about the "truth, justice and everything else", very retarded. I am getting sick of anti-Americanism in the US. Every other country has their right to be anti-American for whatever reason they choose, but for Americans to do it, this really proves the rotten state of things. That particular line would not have been one of those typically American things in a film. Usually the "typically American" things in films have to do with the very enthocentic world view Americans generally have, or just glaring bits of American culture that inevitable show up in own movies. Every culture has this, only Americans export a lot more films and TV shows than other countries do. Every culture has their quarks, America's just more visable to the rest of the world through our exported media.
Great info C3PX, I think another perfect example of eisegesis is where I heard a couple years back, I do not rememeber where, that some folks were believing that Revenge of the Sith was a play on the current Presidency. Implying that the Emporer was Bush and how he organized the Empire was how Bush was organizing his Empire by making up the whole mulsim extremist stuff. It was a bunch of crap and stupid, but a perfect example of eisegesis. I like that word.