That's more plausible. Scorsese still claims to be a believer. Don't you think Gibson, with his film had a bit of primal scream therapy himself at how he feels the Church has gone too liberal? Catholic themes are all over Scorsese's films. TLTOC just literalized them. The ironic thing is that the Vatican wouldn't subscribe to either Scorsese's or Gibson's ideas about the faith. As for knowing it wouldn't make money...some things just aren't destined to appeal to a mass audience. It all depends on how many 'consistuencies' of viewers you can appeal to. BTW: That 'Easy Riders' book, while a completely addictive read, has been discredited by just about every director that Biskind quoted...saying he misrepresented them completely.
That's more plausible. Scorsese still claims to be a believer. Don't you think Gibson, with his film had a bit of primal scream therapy himself at how he feels the Church has gone too liberal? Catholic themes are all over Scorsese's films. TLTOC just literalized them. The ironic thing is that the Vatican wouldn't subscribe to either Scorsese's or Gibson's ideas about the faith. As for knowing it wouldn't make money...some things just aren't destined to appeal to a mass audience. It all depends on how many 'consistuencies' of viewers you can appeal to. BTW: That 'Easy Riders' book, while a completely addictive read, has been discredited by just about every director that Biskind quoted...saying he misrepresented them completely.
I just had to toss in the observation Medved makes in his autobiography as to how the anti-war movement was barely extant until Prez. Johnson ended the college deferment for grad and professional schoolers. Then and only then did the campus hell-no-we-won't-go marches and riots begin in earnest. The only post-graduate havens remaining were in med school and the seminary and this far more than any schmutz to come out of Vatican II caused the ruinous liberalization of the american church as the priesthood was suddenly overwhelmed with the worst kind of people, joining up for the worst possible reasons.