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...
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I saw Unbroken. It was just okay. The movie completely stripped Christianity from it. Hence the movie really made absolutely no sense, just some guy with a strong will.
The entire premise of the movie, or book, was the incredible amount of sustaining faith this guy possessed which sustained him through immense trial and hardship.
Yes
I saw that-haven't read the book though.
BTTT.
Yeah, it reminds me of Oliver Stone’s plane to remake The Fountainhead into an allegory about an anticapitalist hero who makes public housing.
The problem with Christian movies is that a lot of the drama is taken out of the equation when you realize that basic plot of a Christian is movie is (a) problem, (b) God can handle it, (c) don’t worry! LOL! In non-Christian movies there is angst and tension all over the place.
Randy Alcorn wrote a wonderful Christian murder mystery entitled, “Deadline,” which I would LOVE to see translated to the screen. I’ve always thought my own former pastor’s story would be a great movie (his name is Lon Solomon).
A Christian comedy? Wouldn’t that be fun!
I think, though, that as long as we have good, old fashioned movies without language, sex scenes, obscenity, etc., it would be just fine.
Oh, yes, the one Angelina Jolie produced.
Ms. Jolie brilliantly *directed* Unbroken and she is getting better with each film she does. Followed by Unbroken, she made the Cambodian-language film First They Killed They My Father based on her friend Luong's childhood memories of growing up during the war and Khmer Rouge
Spoiler alert: the closing scene of the film shows Luong and the real-life adults that the children in the film had portrayed -- reuniting these years later and kneeling to pray and pay their respects before a Buddha statue and temple that had formerly been destroyed by the communists. (Their doing of which is a prior scene in the film.)
It was a beautifully shot scene and felt like a heartfelt tribute to FAITH in general, not merely Buddha-specific.
I don't know the details of Ms. Jolie's personal faith journey, but writer Barbara Nicolosi also has an essay entitled Why Do Heathens Make the Best Christian Films?
s/b
[I used to email, long ago with Dave Christiano. He and his BROTHER made some decent low-budget films.]
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