Today, they've had to revise and change. Movies are no longer forbidden." Music, too, for Schrader, was considered sinful. "I can remember my mother finding me listening to a Pat Boone song and taking the radio and throwing it against the wall. I remember her anger at losing control, at the insidious effect of the media, destroying and undermining the family structure, which it did."
Schrader's father had been forced to drop out of seminary training during the Depression, and his highest hopes were that his sons Paul and Leonard would enter the ministry. Though Leonard eventually became a teacher and missionary in Japan, Paul's religious training was deflected when, at the age of seventeen, he and two friends slipped downtown to sneak into a showing of The Absent-Minded Professor "I was disappointed," he says now. "After all, movies were forbidden, and this one hardly seemed to qualify. But it was the beginning of a legitimate form of rebellion, and one with an artistic mantle to boot." Schrader's recurring observation on the subject is, "I came to movies as an adult, hut I saw them as a child."
Following high school Schrader entered the seminary at Calvin College.
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