It's a Wonderful Blog Post!

Okay, so the above is meant to be a joke. I know that's not how it really happened. Professor Leeper wasn't out to prove me wrong or anything (though he still did ^_^). So I just hope no one took it the wrong way. It was interesting, because see, I didn't know that Capra was Catholic, so it didn't really strike me at first. And even so, I'm not completely convinced about the whole moonbeam thing (that he did it on purpose. I'm thinking it was more unintentional and that he was unconciously doing it), but I could be wrong. I mean, all those pictures did have Mary glowing...but that's not how I pictured what George was telling Mary. I don't know. That could just be me. I always pictured the moonbeams to look more like this, the ones coming out of their eyes:


These are some freakin' scary moonbeams...


 

I pictured that, except white and coming out of her fingertips and toes and hair. Not a big ray of light, little beams of it. I don't know. I guess when you have that image in your mind its hard to think of anything different. Of course, the guy that wrote the essay also kind of annoyed me (I have no idea why. Maybe because a lot of what he was suggesting seemed unlikely at the time) so I probably was less likely to believe what he was saying.
Still, you have to admit with Capra's background, he had to have been influenced by these images and probably used a lot of them purposefully. Even though I don't want to believe it (I'm such a stubborn person ^_^) its hard to ignore the facts.