3.0
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Helaman's Stripling Warriors (1990)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 3.0
Overview
The people of Ammon, a group of Lamanites, take an oath to never kill again. They rear their children with great faith. One day the wicked Ammoron threatens the peace. 2,000 young men, not bound by the covenant of their parents, are led by Helaman to defend their people. Despite their youth and inexperience these stripling warriors bravely fight because they trust their mothers’ promise that they will not be harmed.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Strong Right
Diversity: Moderate
Christianity: Positive
Overview
The people of Ammon, a group of Lamanites, take an oath to never kill again. They rear their children with great faith. One day the wicked Ammoron threatens the peace. 2,000 young men, not bound by the covenant of their parents, are led by Helaman to defend their people. Despite their youth and inexperience these stripling warriors bravely fight because they trust their mothers’ promise that they will not be harmed.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Traditional
Primary
The film's central thesis explicitly promotes traditional religious values, emphasizing unwavering faith, obedience, and maternal teachings as the source of divine protection and success in righteous defense, aligning with a clearly conservative ideology.
The film, based on a religious text, features visible diversity in its cast by portraying characters consistent with their implied ethnicity in the source material. Its narrative focuses on themes of faith and courage, without critiquing traditional identities or centering explicit DEI themes.
Secondary
The film portrays the Nephite warriors' unwavering faith in God and Christ, their reliance on prayer, and the divine protection they receive, aligning with core Christian virtues of faith and righteousness.
Helaman's Stripling Warriors is an animated film based on a religious text, focusing on a historical narrative of young warriors. The film does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes within its storyline, resulting in no portrayal to evaluate.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film adapts the Book of Mormon account of Helaman and his stripling warriors, who are canonically and historically established as male. There is no evidence the film portrays these characters, or any other significant character, as a different gender.
The film adapts characters from the Book of Mormon. The portrayal of Helaman and the Stripling Warriors with predominantly white actors aligns with traditional interpretations and depictions of Nephite characters in LDS media, showing no clear instance of a race swap from established canon.
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