Posted on 08/12/2018 2:56:26 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
“I realized coming here,”....“that it’s not that Hollywood was persecuting the Church as much as it was the Church was committing suicide in Hollywood. Big difference. I discovered Hollywood isn’t anti-Christian as much as it is anti-bad art. The problem is that we’re giving Hollywood schlock.”
Barbara Nicolosi has worked in Hollywood since 1996 as a writer, producer, and production company executive.
"We have a misconception now that we need to make propaganda for God as a response to the secular world. It’s triumphalistic, rah-rah, our side is the winning team. It doesn’t bring anyone over at all. The response to left-wing, secular propaganda isn’t right-wing propaganda; it’s beauty."
"What does beauty in the 21st century look like? It doesn’t look like the Renaissance. We’re going to have to have our own Renaissance."
The vocation of an artist has particular crosses. I’m able to say to artists, if you’re suffering these things, that doesn’t mean you’re doing it wrong. Buck up. Find community; find strategies to keep walking. You can’t abandon writing because you don’t like isolation. You have to learn to deal with it.
I’m going to use Dante Alighieri’s Purgatorio. Dante puts the artist in purgatory, not hell, which is encouraging. I think he’s saying that artists are innately close to God because they’re going to suffer. They’re also going to have an innate humility, what John Paul II calls the “suffering of insufficiency.” Artists are given a divine vision that they can never quite reach. That suffering is sanctifying.
Artists also have an innate sense of wonder. No one knows more than the artist the spiritual dimension of art. Because where it comes from is a mystery...
(Excerpt) Read more at angelusnews.com ...
>>I discovered Hollywood isn’t anti-Christian as much as it is anti-bad art.
Sharknado? Endless remakes?
The quality of Christian filmmaking is so poor, unfortunately, although there are exceptions, e.g. the brilliant pro-life film October Baby, The Measure of a Man, but they are rarities.
They hated “The Passion of the Christ,” and hated Mel Gibson for it, because it hit them with a truth they couldn’t handle.
It’s post-Weinstein Hollywood.......
Sooner or later they’ll figure out it was their “art” that unleashed Harvey’s sexual atrocities and those of the other Hollywood denizens.
The artists sneered at Christian-based sexual prohibitions..... never factoring in that they were letting loose a destructive force on the populace.
The Harveys of Hollywood couldnt control themselves..... forcing themselves on young girls.
So full of themselves, they figured nubile starlets looking for parts was an open invitation to THEM.
I loved the fact that The Passion of the Christ was an outstanding movie which was a spectacular box office success—in spite of the haters in Hollywood who tried to destroy Mel and his movie.
conservatives are generally more disinterested in show business. Not just in acting but everything around it from writing and directing etc. Not sure if it stems from inherent personality issues or blacklisting effects. But whatever the reason libtards are free to monopolize the industry and also have the lion’s share of the experience. And you get funny things where it seems every writer in Hollywood is obsessed with SJW issues hardly anybody on the outside cares about.
>>They hated “The Passion of the Christ,” and hated Mel Gibson for it, because it hit them with a truth they couldn’t handle.
True. They’ll watch John MacLaine walk on broken glass and get beat up and shot for sequel after sequel and never bat an eyelash at the violence.
But “Passion” was too much for them. Even for the Jews and Anti-Theists of Hollywood. This is because their heart KNOWS. The Holy Spirit makes them feel the pain in “Passion”. They want to pretend it isn’t real.
I know this because I was an atheist when I saw it. I can giggle at a horror movie of the worst kind and I LOVE watching John MacLaine walk on glass. My atheism survived nearly dying in a submarine that was sinking, but “Passion” jarred something in me and it wasn’t the violence.
To truly explore the Christian experience, you have to have experienced that explosive dimension of the Creator's love. How many people in Hollywood do you think have ever known that feeling?
So it's hard for them to interpret Christianity in the context of anything but a price tag.
[ The quality of Christian filmmaking is so poor ]
Unfortunately that’s true. Their budgets are always very small.
They’re getting better. The case For Christ was well done, so was God’s not Dead.
Well, in that case, they were completely off base on the profitability of the movie too, to the tune of hundreds of millions.
“. I discovered Hollywood isn’t anti-Christian as much as it is anti-bad art.”
B.S.
Unbroken was a high quality film about a Christian.
Haven’t seen them.
I used to email, long ago with Dave Christiano. He and his brothers made some decent low-budget films.
I liked “End of the Harvest”. Granted, it’s not fast-paced. There were a few others that I liked.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3a8vhk
Granted, it’s not Hollywood, and very low budget. But it doesn’t have all the trash Hollywood usually puts in there.
End of the Harvest is a Rich Christiano film, BTW. Rich is Dave’s brother.
But we are on the winning team. I’ve read the end of the book. All glory in the end belongs to God the Father Son and Holy Spirit.
Was that the film about the WWII POW in the Pacific?
Their hatred and ignorance of Christianity actually overwhelms their greed. They’d rather produce “Broke Dick Mountain” than “Ben Hur.”
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