Posted on 08/21/2008 11:47:29 AM PDT by AJKauf
The film industry's blacklist is dead — unless you happen to be openly conservative......
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In 2004, before anyone had even seen The Passion of the Christ, before Mel Gibson would drunkenly reveal his darker side, leftists poured out of the entertainment, academic, and religious worlds to unleash an unholy hell on the film and its maker. Too late to stop the film (it had secured distribution), the goal was therefore two-fold: to hurt the movie financially (which obviously failed), but also to launch a pre-emptive strike against any filmmaker thinking about following Gibson’s lead and scampering off the liberal Hollywood plantation. The message was clear: Stray and you will be personally destroyed. And it worked. The Passion may be the only film to make over a half-billion dollars and not create a me-too phenomenon. A more tolerant industry, or at least one driven by financial considerations, would’ve quickly greenlit a serious-minded sequel based on the Acts of the Apostles.
Reasonable people would call this a form of “blacklisting,” but liberal Hollywood isn’t reasonable and rather than have an honest discussion on the matter they instead wrap us ’round the axle of specificity when it comes to the word “blacklist. ” So let’s use another word: Passioning.
“Passioning” is what happens when the leftist Hollywood establishment, using whatever power available, demean, dismiss, diminish, and defame those they consider an ideological apostate. In 2004 it was Mel Gibson and The Passion of the Christ; today it’s director David Zucker and An American Carol....
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You know, it’s funny, that Hollywood is ok with the mention of “God” (because “God” can mean anything, in their book), but once you mention the Name of Jesus Christ, they get freaked out. Liberals claim to be tolerant, but in reality, they are tolerant as long as you agree with them.
No it didn't. There have been films made since then based on the Bible: The Nativity Story and One Night With the King, just to name a couple that come to mind off the top of my head. Christian films are becoming more frequent now.
This writer is wrong on that aspect.
I’m waiting for a movie or TV sitcom with gay married characters. After all, now that homosexual marriage is legal in California, and California is the home of the entertainment industry, can this be far off?
BIG GOVERNMENT is God!
That's because Democraps are Fascists. They whine about being open minded and inclusive, but they are goose stepping Nazis who will crush any opposition to their Marxist Dogma.
This new Zucker film looks pretty funny though. I hope it's a huge hit.
“That’s because Democraps are Fascists. They whine about being open minded and inclusive, but they are goose stepping Nazis who will crush any opposition to their Marxist Dogma.”
They call conservatives fascists as well when, in reality, they are the ones who try to suppress those who don’t agree with them.
Nonsense. There has been a slew of torture-porn flicks (e.g. Saw) over the past few years.
An American Carol
Ummmm.
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Is that the new form of gay-lifestyle logic?
I plan on seeing this at least twice. Hey, Freep Hollywood by actually attending a movie, what a turn of events.
...another long-lost half-brother of Barack Obama has been discovered along with his “partner...”
I can’t wait to see it, it looks really funny.
lol Sure why not! I like a goofy movie on occasion, and I can laugh with this one, not at it. I’m there.
Pray for W and Our Troops
I miss good comedies like the Marx Brothers or Hope and Crosby. Why can’t they make funny movies that don’t involve toilet humor and sex? Where are all the funny men (and women) these days?
But did Saw make over a half billion?
>>Christian films are becoming more frequent now.>>
‘Passion’ was not Christian, it was Catholic. And no, they are not the same thing.
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