First Trailer for American Gods
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Ranguvar18 — 9 years ago(July 23, 2016 05:58 AM)
Basic plot with no spoilers: A man recently released from jail finds out that his wife has died and is offered a job working for a mysterious man who calls himself Mr. Wednesday.
It is about real gods, both old and new, and what happens to old gods after their worshipers die off. It's also a giant road trip through America.
Read the book.
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Dreamsincolour — 9 years ago(July 23, 2016 09:49 AM)
old and new gods??? in America??? what culture are these gods supposed to be based on? cause the USA does not have any "gods" of there own, besides the Chrsitian God
Oh for heaven's sake, try thinking outside the box a little. To shake a few brain cells and to use a little imagination won't actually hurt you.
Otherwise just take the cue from others' excitement, that there's potentially something really special here. Or read the book perhaps?
And re the trailer.Yea, this could be really good! Looking forward to it hugely! -
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Dreamsincolour — 9 years ago(July 23, 2016 01:39 PM)
You had already had the premise of "American Gods" explained to you perfectly well, and you effectively came back with how America only has a Christian God. So I actually thought you were one of the God bothering trolls who was going to start declaiming how there's only one God, and that anything else is blasphemy etc etc (boring) etc. Apologies if I read it wrong and you weren't going that way, but really what followed was no clearer than what you'd already been told. And I would also recommend the book as well worth the read. Neil Gaiman's stories are wonderfully imaginative!
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Ranguvar18 — 9 years ago(July 23, 2016 02:20 PM)
I actually thought you were one of the God bothering trolls who was going to start declaiming how there's only one God, and that anything else is blasphemy etc etc
Ugh, I can't wait until we get those types of posters on this Board. It's going to be so much
fun.
And I say this as a practicing Catholic.
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theunopeneddoor-697-442391 — 9 years ago(September 09, 2016 06:31 PM)
You do realize that America has hundreds of religions.
And to answer your questions:- The old gods are from ancient pagan religions like Norse, Greek, Egyptian, Hindu, Native American, ETC.
- The "New gods" represent things like technology, money, travel, things we worship now.
You could have just as easily googled it.
Never Drumpf! Never Hillary!
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Ranguvar18 — 9 years ago(July 23, 2016 11:10 AM)
Every culture. You've got Norse gods, Indian gods, Egyptian gods,Celtic gods, gods of media and technology, djinn, etc.
America isn't just one culture, it's a mix of many different cultures. The premise of the book is that the new gods want to take over from the old.
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taranian71 — 9 years ago(July 31, 2016 12:34 AM)
The idea behind the book is that people came to America and worshipped their gods from where they came from. Eventually they stopped doing this and started to worship other things, media, slot machines and technology. This "worship" created new gods, the old gods want the get rid of the new gods so people will worship them again. This idea of gods needing worship to survive or have power is used by other writers as well. The idea that worshiping your tv by sitting in front of it would create a god is something original to Gaiman as far as I know.
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JuandePareja — 9 years ago(July 23, 2016 07:09 AM)
With Spoilers?
When people emigrated to America they bought their old pagan gods and folk heroes with them. Odin, Loki, Horus etc Gods only have power when people believe in them. So when people stopped believing in them the gods had to resort to living as drifters, prostitutes and confidence tricksters.
Then along come new Gods The god of Television, The Internet, Automobiles etc
There is a civil war between old Gods and New.
Its epic.
