David Zucker Commits Hollywood Treason

Pajamas Media ^ | August 21, 2008 | John Nolte

[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....

[Recovering_Democrat]

There has been a slew of torture-porn flicks (e.g. Saw) over the past few years.

Jesus' sacrifice should not be described merely as "torture-porn". History testifies to his death on the cross as an event we use as a major time-marker in civilization. Followers point to the event and his resurrection as Hope for the future.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Are you a member of one of those Protestant churches who ordain openly gay bishops and perform gay weddings?

My money is on snake handler.