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 | | Chaplin was touched by Christ's "tolerant understanding of the woman who had sinned and was to be stoned by the mob"; when a despondent Edna carries her illegitimate child out of the hospital in The Kid, the image dissolves to a statue of Christ carrying his own burden, the cross, perhaps empathetically. |
 | | Phillipe is often seen carrying wood, and, of course, there is the scene of Etienne praying at his inverted sword, and the scene of the Bishop being confronted by the shadow of the cross... |
 | | I'm sorry if this post is taking the discussion in the wrong direction, but it seems to me that suggestions of the cross and other biblical imagery are often made in superhero films. |
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