
Translator: Davood Salehan
Source: Rasekhoon.net
Source: Rasekhoon.net
In remake of the movie that was on the cinema screen last year, exactly the same events happened in the film which happened thirty years ago, of course with new actors and stakeholders.
Baby, "Robert Thorne," US Ambassador, dies mysteriously in the hospital and he adopted another baby in the same hospital by proposal of a priest in order not to hurt his wife, and he named him "Damien". Gradually strange behaviors are seen by five years old Damien and his babysitter shockingly commits suicide in his fifth birthday party. A priest called Father "Brennan" warns Robert Thorne that Damien is not son of human, but Robert does not believe until his wife was injured in an accident and then she died mysteriously. Photography explains incredible facts for Thorne and to explore the event he goes to Palestine and Israel with him. Thorne is now sure that he has to kill Damien by sacred daggers especially that the photographer died in an accident as well. But Robert Thorne's attempt to kill Damien in church was in vain and interrupted with the involvement of the police and the murder of Thorne.
It is clear that one of the main reasons for the reconstruction was presence of "David Seltzer" as a scriptwriter that thirty years later, for making the film "the omen: 666" following common clichés of Hollywood, led the director, John Moore, to use shocking shots with common effects (and they were never used in the seventies version).
But now, perhaps due to the film "The Da Vinci Code" we can speak about "the Omen" much easier. In two scenes of the movie we can see number 666. Once number 666 is shown in the photographs of the dead nurse who committed suicide on her right hand, and another time we see it when Thorne sees that among Damien's hair on his scalp.
It seems that Damien and his supporters are imaged in order to implement the same idea of 666 that was disclosed in "The Da Vinci Code" as well, and of course continuous display of the two films cannot be without related interpretation. An idea, which according to the film, is clear from "the secret society of Jewish monastery" and since the early second millennium AD that today it is crystallized in some mystical Jewish sects such as "Kabbalah"; a thinking that helps notion of Zionism to achieve its goals.
There are sentences that Father Brennan in a scene from the film quotes from the Bible, and later in conversations between Robert Thorne and photographer they use them many times to penetrate the mystery of Damien, in what it is mentioned: "When the Jewish people come back to Zion, and comet splits the sky and he will rise from the eternal sea and creates an army on its shores so that everyone stand in front of their brothers ...”
This kind of apocalyptic thinking that is better to be called "Armageddon" (as in the first film it is mentioned by a priest) is promoted in many of the so-called Hollywood horror movies in different ways and any kind of fighting with it is in vain.
At the beginning of the film "The Omen" quoted by a priest, who has researched the signs of the apocalypse, all the signs citing from "revelation of events of the Apocalypse" in New Testament are shown by evidences. For example, in the expression of the dream of seven trumpets, when he says "... the second angel blew in the trumpet, suddenly something like a great burning mountain fell into the sea ..." we see images of the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York on September 11th 2001, or when the third trumpet said:
"... When the third angel blew in the trumpet a blazing star fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and springs ... and they got bitter when it came on one-third of the Earth's waters, and many died due to its bitterness. .. ", we see scenes from the recent tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia or Katrina Hurricane in Louisiana coast.
Words of the priest deliberately implies prove of the signs of the apocalypse and the release of an evil animal or the Satan, but it prevents to explain the last part "dream of seven trumpets" quoted by the "Book of Revelation of events of the Last Days" that is a tale of happy ending and "the eternal kingdom of God ", and it stops at the event after the sixth trumpet and release of a strange creature that could be interpreted as supporting troops of Damien to abandon audience in fear and hopelessness of the end of the world. Father Brennan and photographer, and finally Robert Thorne and his wife, who are somehow aware of reality of Damien, are murdered terribly, and finally Damien smiles in camera while he is hand in hand with the US president to emphasize the fate of the rule of evil forces (of course, according to the filmmakers) over the world. In fact, this is contrary to the apocalyptic ideal of all religions and monotheists waiting for a savior and God's sovereignty.
The Holy Book states about the fate of the strange beast that is released with the sixth trumpet, first in chapter XVI in revelation of the apocalypse:
"So first angel went out and he emptied his cup on the ground, painful terrible scars appeared on the body of those who had signs of unclean beast ... The fifth angel poured his cup on the throne of the beast so his (evil's) morphology plunged into darkness”...
And then in the twentieth chapter of the Book of Revelation it is written:
... The devil deceived them and was thrown into the lake of fire. Lake of fire is the place where burns with sulfur, where the beast and the fake prophet will be tortured and suffer in there forever day and night...
Before "The Omen" in the seventies, I recall "Rosemary's Baby" film (by Roman Polanski- 1969) that the final victory was for evil forces (ironically the presence of "Mia Farrow," where in the film she finally gave birth to Satan's child, and in the 2006 film of "the Omen," Damien's nurse protects him against anti-evil forces, and it is very meaningful and it can be considered another sign of the filmmakers' thought!). Even in the film "The Exorcist" finally Father overcomes Satan and evil spirits, although he is killed himself. But in all parts of "The Omen the forces of evil defeat others and divine front that in the films belong to the Catholic Church is fearful and anxious in front demons and defeated, even when Damien dies in the third part of the movie called "final confrontation", but in the fourth part (which was made for television) evil spirit goes into a girl named "Dalia" and he pursues his goals by her.
But creating horror and fear in the hearts of men and making them disappointed to build the future, especially by the influential media, such as cinema can create a psychological opportunity in human mind for to those who are isolated against the powerful divine religions such as Islam and Christianity to deal with dark future of humanity and take refugee other force or find a humble way to cope with the same evil force.
Let us not forget that belief in the occurrence of Armageddon or emergence of the promised survivor by change of entry into the third millennium and going from "Hoot" tower to "Aquarius" belongs to the Jews that did not accept Jesus Christ (PBUH) and the Prophet of refused and perhaps more than followers of other religions they consider themselves entitled to the emergence of a savior. In the "Da Vinci Code" American professor "Langdon" said to Sophie, a girl who is looking for the secret of death of his grandfather at the Louvre Museum in Paris:
"End of Pisces and start of Aquarius are historic signs. Monastery (the Jewish secret society of Zion) wanted to disclose documents to the world but the millennium came and nothing happened...
Langdon's friend, "Sir Leigh Teabing" (who had studied for years about monastery of Zion and the Holy Grail by the Royal Society of England) said:
"... I knew that the monastery has decided to tell the truth the world at the beginning of the millennium, but the millennium passed without any revelation and the monastery had a sacred purpose and for centuries, people like Da Vinci, Newton and Botchily kept their secrets ...
Holy Book states about the millenniums and status of divine and evil forces as follows:
... I saw an angel coming down from heaven. He brings the key to endless well ... he chained dragon and put it in the well for thousands of years… dragon is the same old snake which is also called the devil and Satan... I saw those who did not worship evil creature and its statue and did not have its sign on their forehead and hands. They all, began life all over again and ruled with Christ for a thousand-year... Satan will be released after the end of the thousand years...
"End of Days" is the belief of Jews, who are still waiting for the Messiah and believe that at the beginning of millennium and the so-called the end of the day, Messiah will emerge otherwise Satan will be dominant on the world. This subject can be clearly seen in the last few years in some films such as "The Ninth Gate," "End of Days", "blessed children", "The Seventh Sin" and other movies. Symptoms are similar, for example in the book "Harry Potter 3: Prisoner of Azkaban" it is mentioned that the black dog is a sign of Omen and we see black dogs repeatedly in the film "The Omen"; dogs which protect Damien and even The secret to his mother's grave. An interesting point is that in the "Harry Potter 3: Prisoner of Azkaban," the step father of Harry is Sirius Black that is in from of a black dog and in fact he is supposed to defend Harry Potter against his enemies. (Just like black dogs that protected Damien!!). We also remember that in "The Da Vinci Code" clearly they named Harry Potter and his story is considered as one of the topics that seeks to keep alive the secret of the Holy Grail and the lost dynasty of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. You can see how "The Da Vinci Code" tells all the mysteries and internal relation of the theme of books and movies.
But the other point is that many times in the film "The Omen," it is quoted by photographer, Keith Jennings, that she quotes ancient traditions:
Satan's son will come out of the world of politics.
Robert Thorne is a person who even had a wish of being president and attended the funeral of President of the United States. But the picture of US President hand in hand with Damien in the camera frame extremely evokes a group of famous caricatures of martyr cartoonist of Palestine, "Naji al-Ali" that always pictured Zionism as a child with spiky hair from back that sometimes had his hand in the hands of Uncle Sam, the America!
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