I just got the idea for an animated short called "I am the clay" which as inplied in the title actualizes the Potter metaphor Paul uses in...one of his letters...Since the essence of animation is the ability to bring inanimate objects to life, I came up of a story where the clay dislakes the shape it's being formed into and jumps of the very wheel and tries to go off on it's own sticking his nose up to the finished vessels and the vessels in the furnace or the scrap pile. After several failed attempts of forming/mataining a shape and being torn by the elements (even added a gag of having a dog come and chew on him a little...the blob meekly crawls back for the Potter to pick him back up and finish the process he started on him. Probelem is I wanted to shocase this short into the secular film festivals and the Christian, and I'm not sure the secular ones are going to get it. I'm even questioning the meaning of some parts of the movie, like who does the shattered pile reperesent? Do they ever get restored? Where are they [the unbelievers] in this piece? Are they also rebellious clay or are they the matireals in the earth the potter doesn't even choose to use in making the clay itself? Or does what I have so far not need to answer those issues?
Well other than sound effects I fealt this should be a silent film...it'd be to obvious if the clay or even the potter talked...I had a similar story about the "be happy" moral about a Chinese Crested who to some people for obvious reasons keeps trying to be any breed other than himself...especially the large athletic breeds...all to impress a "PowerPuff" girl in the same neighboorhood instead of trying to please the people who keep him...
When divinely driven, just following the calling is enough. God fills in the blanks, and expounds on the details. Remember the parable of Jesus about the seed? Some falls on good ground, some on not so good ground and some never makes it to the soil. I like your idea, and hope you follow thru.
you don't have to have the scrap pile, god in his all-knowing power doesn't bake mistakes. (bake is a typo but it applies so well here doesn't it?) and the sinners are the rebelious clay.
you don't really have to answer the questions, sometimes leaving it open is a good thing. breeds curiosity in some cases.
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BTW this is a BRILLIANT idea! I love it. Even if the spiritual aspect is lost to unbelievers, it can still have a " be happy with who you are" moral.
you don't really have to answer the questions, sometimes leaving it open is a good thing. breeds curiosity in some cases.