Oscars showing Hollywood's hypocrisy

[GraniteStateConservative]

I'm curious about the psychological profile of people who put vanities in breaking news.

[ClearCase_guy]

LOTR: Big Success
Passion: Big Success

Hollywood conclusion: The People want Barrabas -- I mean, The People want Kill Bill Vol. 2

[apackof2]

However nothing gets Hollyweird's attention like big boxoffice

I am sure there are producers having meetings about producing the next "Biblically" movie

[johniegrad]

Speculate on it for me?

[highlander_UW]

I don't know that Hollywood is being hypocritical in relation to LOTR. I just think they don't "get it". The strong themes are too subtle for Hollywood...just look at the movies they normally make, almost completely devoid of depth and introspection (although there are a few exceptions).

[Mr. Jeeves]

I think Hollywood's films are often too introspective - they get so caught up in studying subtle shades of gray that they forget the existence of the big, black-and-white themes that "Passion" and "Lord of the Rings" portrayed so well. Of course, most "enlightened" Hollywood types don't believe in the concepts of good and evil, so that makes it hard for them to create themes with any relevance to people who have to live in the real world - the kind of subjects that might be discussed at a Hollywood cocktail party end up being made into films.

[Liz]

LOTR: Big Success; Passion: Big Success. Hollywood conclusion: The People want Barrabas -- I mean, The People want Kill Bill Vol. 2

LOL. Good zinger.

As one articulate, insightful FReeper posted: " Mel Gibson has shown there is more than one way to skin a cat. The Passion broke Hollywood's monopoly and stranglehold on this country's (and the world's) entertainment industry. People are sick of Hollywood's decadent, nihilistic, incestuous mutual admiration society. They are sick of the celebrities who continually bash all that Americans hold dear. They are hungry for entertainment that reflects and reinforces their values, rather than attacking them and glorifying the immoral dregs of our culture. Mel Gibson just poked them in the eye big time. It will be interesting to see if Hollywood tries to jump on the Mel bandwagon or bands together to destroy him. "

America has learned to its grief that a culture devoid of Christian values is a dangerous wasteland of school killings, disturbed one-parent kids, crime waves of titanic proportions, schools teaching the destructive, terroristic NEA--PP'hood agenda, sexual license, younger and younger teen pregnancies, throw-away babies, abortion on demand including infanticide, and the homosexual takeover.

Hollywerdos will change their ways or be left behind.

[defendingright]

What do you think the odds are that Hollywood (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) will come out with an Islam "epic?" I think it's only a matter of time.

[highlander_UW]

As I mentioned, there are a few Hollywood movies that are deep, but even the type you refer to as "introspective" I believe are not really deep but simply run over the same little bit of emotional terrain without really digging into implications. I believe that is exactly because of the reason you stated, which is that Hollywood doesn't recognize evil or good. Instead they make introspective movies like Shallow Hal and Jason vs. whoever that other slasher movie guy is.

[FreeTheHostages]

I'm curious about the psychological profile of people who put vanities in breaking news.

Emotionally impulsive, egocentric, and maverick/rule-breaker.

Truthfinder, breaking news is for breaking news.

[Sam's Army]

Your post made me think of the Sarandon/Penn movie "Dead Man Walking" as a perfect example of the overstudy of Gray vs. Black and White.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - LOTR vs TPOTC

[xp38]

They tried that once back in the 70s with a film called Mohammed Messenger of God. Since retitled The Message. Anthony Quinn starred. Is is expressly forbidden to show the visual image of Mohammed in Islam. This film was made by muslims so Quinn played a relaitive of Mo and all dialog and appearance was offscreen. A small sect of muslims didn't know this and took a theater showing the movie hostage in Washington. There would be loads of fun if a movie actually did show mad Mo visually.

[maestro]

Ping!

America has learned to its grief that a culture devoid of Christian values is a dangerous wasteland of school killings, disturbed one-parent kids, crime waves of titanic proportions, schools teaching the destructive, terroristic NEA--PP'hood agenda, sexual license, younger and younger teen pregnancies, throw-away babies, abortion on demand including infanticide, and the homosexual takeover.

Let's lay aside the absolutes of biblical doctrine and go to the 'movie-temple' and 'worship together'.

(2nd Corinthians 6:14-18)

Maranatha!!

(Romans 10:17) /sarcasm

[Godzilla]

One item from the oscars last night was when the award for film editing was announced, they said something to the effect that with out the film editors, film would be six hours long and theaters would lose money. Then they announced LOTR-ROTK which was close to 4 hours long...... Hmmmmmmm.

[xp38]

This is a small blurb of the event I found on the web.

In 1977 a film was released titled MOHAMMED, MESSENGER OF GOD. This evoked the wrath of the Hanafi Muslim sect, who assumed that it was going to depict the prophet on screen, an act considered blasphemous. While it was being shown in a Washington DC theater, the local city hall and two other buildings were entered by small bands of Hanfi gunmen. Protesting the showing of the film, they held more than 100 people hostage and caused one death over a two-day period. The Prophet was never physically depicted on the screen at all. The camera was the 'eyes' of the Prophet as all of the characters on screen addressed him as such.

[Liz]

Let's lay aside the absolutes of biblical doctrine and go to the 'movie-temple' and
'worship together.' (2nd Corinthians 6:14-18) Maranatha!!(Romans 10:17) /sarcasm

Movie-temple? You mean the one with the golden (Oscar) idols and the fatted calves (those in need of liposuction)?

[afz400]

All Mel Gibson has to do to get back in the good graces of the Hollywood moguls is to remake "Masada".

[maestro]

:-)

Yep.

Psycho/Sociological Pagan diversity-doctrine rules a pluralistic society?

No constitutional 'letter',.....rather the 9 'wizards'...make 'rulings'...?

:-(