Posted on 04/08/2007 5:47:31 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Is the Clerks and Dogma creator next going to attack middle America, Conservatives, Republicans and Christians in an upcoming movie? It certainly seems so with a recent interview he gave that appears on the moviefan website called Rottentomatoes.com.
Smith, known for his irreverent skewering of conventional mores, seems to be in the midst of production on a horror movie based on a "Fred Phelps" styled character.
UK audiences recently saw documentary journalist Louis Theroux spend time with members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, a controversial church group made largely of members of the Phelps family and run by preacher Fred Phelps. Infamous in America for taking a supremely homophobic stance and for picketing the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq, the group see media interviews as a platform for airing their views and the word of their founder, Fred Phelps.
"That dude has always fascinated me and he's really informed the horror movie that I'm working on," Smith told us, "The movie's called 'Red State' and it's very much about that subject matter, that point of view and that position taken to the absolute extreme. It's certainly not Phelps himself but it's very much inspired by a Phelps figure."
Red State, huh? Can you just guess what that means? "Red" as in Republican, "horror" as in the horror of Conservative ideals? Along with another Smith attack on religion, I can imagine how badly he is going to treat the average American in "flyover" country with this one.
Think I am reading too much into it. Well, read more of director Smith's interview.
But while Smith is convinced that "horror" is the right definition for the film, he's not so sure audiences will agree. "To me there's all kinds of horror, and killing someone's not the absolute worst thing you could do to another human being," he said, "The death in a horror movie has always been the money shot in a very exploitative manner. Stabbing somebody and splashing blood all over them is the equivalent to some dude exploding over some broad's face.
All kinds of "horror" like voting for George W. Bush, I'd lay odds.
Still think I am reaching or over reacting?
Try this...
(see rest click here)
But I guess facts don't matter in the face of a good storyline...
However, he is getting free publicity on a conservative website...
I can’t stand the Phelps family so I will probably go and see this movie. The good thing about Smith is that he makes fun of everyone. I can just imagine the fool he will make Phelps look. I think everyone should see it.
When has he ever made fun of liberal stuff?
On the movie about Jay and ? return, he was making fun of druggies big time.
Right... because people in “red states” vote Democrat and picket soldiers’ funerals, and don’t appear to have any jobs, leaving them free to roam around the country protesting at different places...
I used to buy all three Philadelphia newspapers and subscribed to Time, Newswek and US News. Avidly read them all. Then I found out what they were not reporting and that I was ill informed as a result. Now they don't get a dime of my money.
I see ads for movies and a number appeal to me at first, but I wait. "Flags of Our Fathers" turned out to be biased. That Leonardo DeCaprio CIA movie was another one I passed on. At one time I would have gone to both in a heartbeat.
If Hollywood wants to insult me and my values and praise communist front groups and talk trash about the US, screw them.
Let them get a real job.
“...over reacting?”
Yep, just what they are looking for...
“Dogma” was just about the most stupid movie I’ve ever seen. I’m not religious, so I wasn’t offended, but I certainly was bored.
...then what is? Lowering their self-esteem?
More moral relativism from the left
Somewhere the KS Republican party might want to maintain a research file on his political affiliation and political activities and brief every Republican running for office so they can counter media assumption and smears.
“John Edwards, Esq., Hillary Clinton, Esq., President Bill Clinton, Vernon Jordan, Esq., Richard BenVenista, Esq., Reverend Jessie Jackson, Reverend Al Sharpton, Rev Fred Phelps, Esq., all Democrats. Yuk! Don’t blame us. Pheuw!, he’s your boy!”
He should check out any given FR thread on Phred “The Latent Phag” Phelps and he’ll quickly see that 99% of conservatives consider him and his followers to be subhuman garbage.
Is the Clerks and Dogma creator next going to attack middle America, Conservatives, Republicans and Christians in an upcoming movie? It certainly seems so with a recent interview he gave that appears on the moviefan website called Rottentomatoes.com.Smith, known for his irreverent skewering of conventional mores, seems to be in the midst of production on a horror movie based on a "Fred Phelps" styled character.
For the record, Fred Phelps is a vile racist DEMOCRAT.
He had run for political office as a Democrat several times (without national media attention nor rebuke from the DNC).
He "was" friends with Sen. Al Gore Jr. until Phelps' comments and Gore's rising star as VP made such publicly acknowledged friendship "uncomfortable".
I suspect that Fred Phelps and his family (who are the primary group who make up his 'church') do so strictly out of smearing "conservative" Christians. Certainly in the press AND in politics Phelps is wrongly painted to be a Republican.
And this article does more to spread the Big Lie. Goebbels would be proud.
If he’s making fun of Fred Phelps(D) and his protesting military funerals, then he IS making fun of liberal passtimes.
ping
Finally, Fred Phelps is certainly NOT a Christian and neither party is desirous of encouraging him to be a member!
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But in the 1980’s Phelps won several civil rights-related cases, earning him three awards from civil rights groups, including a local chapter of the NAACP. He also supported the 1988 presidential bid of Al Gore, whose campaign used Phelps’ family office space. Son Fred Phelps Jr., who had hosted a fundraiser for Gore, attended the 1993 Clinton-Gore inaugural. When invited to the 1997 inaugural, the Phelps clan came to Washington, but this time to demonstrate against the Clinton-Gore administration for betraying them. The Phelps family would also demonstrate at the funeral of Gore’s father in 1998. In 1990, 1994, and 1998 Phelps ran for the Democratic nomination for governor of Kansas, getting 15 percent of the primary vote in his last try. In 1992, he ran for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, getting nearly 31 percent of the primary vote. He also ran for mayor of Topeka in 1997.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21229
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