Real-life couple from 'The Vow' explain key differences

 Everyone knows the new movie the "The Vow," a tragic but ultimately happy story of a newly married couple that faced a car accident that wiped all the wife's memory of her new husband. This movie is actually based on the true story and book “The Vow” by Kim and Krickitt Carpenter. But there is a key difference, while the book credit's the couple Christianity as drawing them together, the movie strips the characters of this important belief.Kim Carpenter said, “The movie doesn’t talk about faith significantly. It would have been nice to see more of it,”Showing that although the couple was not mad about Hollywood's depiction of them, they would have preferred to see a movie with as much depth and power as the true story had. Some critic agree that it was a nice story but because of its push for secular values it didn't hold a candle to the power of the true story.

I don't understand Hollywood. They make things secular to sell to a wider audience. But wait, don't 82% of American believe in God? If just a fraction of that 82% went to see the movie, it would already be successful. Even then, most of the 18% left are not completely opposed to all things religious, some of them would go see it anyway. So why the push to make everything secular? Off the top of my head I can think of movies like Fireproof, Bridge to Terribithia, and Soul Surfer that have an emphasis on faith yet did very well in theaters. Maybe Hollywood needs to think this through before assuming all of America is on the same page with premarital sex and extramarital affairs as the "norm" in a modern relationship. I'm a little disappointed in Hollywood. Of course, I have been for awhile and I doubt it's going to go away anytime soon. In the mean time I'll watch my old Disney movies, foreign films, and indie movies and be completely fine thank you very much.

Piazza, Jo. "Real-life Couple from 'The Vow' Says It 'would Have Been Nice' to See Christian References in Film." Fox News. FOX News Network, 16 Feb. 2012. Web. 21 Feb. 2012. <http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/02/16/real-life-couple-from-vow-says-it-would-have-been-nice-to-see-christian/>.