HOLLYWOOD 2005 / MONTROSE MICHIGAN

WESTFALL'S "THE AMERICAN WORKER" ^ | DECEMBER 1, 2005 | MICHAEL WESTFALL

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By Michael Westfall

MONTROSE MICHIGAN'S, “Moose’s Movie Theatre”, was one of the favorite places to visit every weekend in the 1950’s. Movies were just decent family entertainment back then and not formulated to be offensive or political. Today, in addition to the sex and violence, there are also those in the film industry who are promoting a political agenda. Michael Moore is an example of just how far the bar of excellence has dropped in Hollywood. See…http://michaelwestfall.tripod.com/id22.html When you have self-promoters like Michael Moore, who continually jumps on the obvious hot issues, given the power and authority to promote and spread their ridiculous ideas with negative venom and marginal plots it eventually becomes very boring and unimpressive to anyone with a working brain. On the other hand,“The Passion of The Christ”, Mel Gibson’s independent hit movie was a certified blockbuster and opened Hollywood’s eyes to the possibilities of filming movies of substance to reach the forgotten Christian conservatives in our nation. Jonathan Flora is another award-winning producer who works for Disney and Miramax. He directs music videos, commercials and most recently worked on “Finding Neverland”. Jonathan Flora independently wrote and directed “A Distant Thunder” which is a gripping supernatural courtroom thriller that deals with partial birth abortion. Let us understand Hollywood’s ability to reach and influence millions of people. We aren’t going to win the cultural war by fighting Hollywood. The razzel-dazzle of glitzy tinsel town is so powerful that it isn’t going to go away. I understand the power of film and I believe that the best way to make meaningful changes in Hollywood is to support in a “huge” way the people that do movies right and encourage them to do more....