Evil Eye/Video Unrelated
Talk of the “evil eye” dates as far back as Hesiod and has been included in the work of Plato, Tgheocritus, Aristophanes, Plutarch and Plithy the Elder. It is also found in Islamic and Talmudic sources, albeit in a more theologically sinister form. Talismans featuring the eye of fatima have been used by a number of these cultures to ward off the negative effects (which primarily include dryness, withering, and dehydration). While we may follow this to a discussion of the Eye of Horus and the All-Seeing-Eye of Adam Weishaup’s Bavarian Illuminati (founded May 1st 1776), there is not enough time and this medium is not nearly as safe as it would need to be. No. So instead let us look to something far safer. Sociology. More specifically let us look at a manifestation of the (a) secularization thesis: the use of the evil eye in Forrest Gump.
The movie garnered a wide audience in North America and Europe, and its popularity in Asia and the Middle East was no less formidable. However, for all of the movie’s popularity in the Near East, there was one scene in the film that was met with large-scale protest and disapproval. The result of which lead to the scene’s deletion in the Near East version of the DVD. Dubbed the “evil eye occurrence,” the scene takes place directly after Forrest is ejected from the Black Panther compound. Standing outside the bus to which the character “Jenny” will soon board, Forrest recommends that she avail herself of her drift-less wandering and return to Greenbough, Alabama. Directly after making this statement Forrest flashes her abusive lover the evil eye. This got Forrest as well as the actor that played him, Tom Hanks, branded a “sorcerer”. A number of Danish youths picked up on the story and have since adopted it into their cultural milieu.
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