Posted on 11/01/2013 10:03:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Orson Scott Card, the outspokenly homophobic author of the book Ender's Game, won't get any of the box office money from the movie that opens tomorrow. So is there still cause for boycott?
Though there has been a call to boycott the film over Card's support of anti-gay causes, Josh Dickey of The Wrap reported yesterday evening that Card will not benefit—at least not directly—from the film's success. Sources "both inside and outside the companies that produced the" movie confirmed to Dickey that Card gets no back-end on the movie, and has already been paid the money he will get from the adaptation through a "decade-old deal." Card's deal for the movie, which lingered in development for many years, was done long ago, and Dickey explained that, by the time the iteration of the project that finally made it to the screen got underway, "Card’s involvement, both creative and financial, had dissolved to virtually nil."
Card has a producing credit, but he wasn't involved in the film creatively, Dickey reports. That goes in contrast to authors like J.K. Rowling and Suzanne Collins, who made deals that gave them a say in the filmmakers' decisions and kept the money flowing. (For what it's worth, director Gavin Hood told us in an interview earlier this month that he did have to meet with Card, "because he had approval rights on the director and they were hiring me as a writer director.") Of course, the success of a film will likely drive book sales, with some of those going to Card.
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Oh and another thing... foolishness does say yes... to Satan. In clever disguise. Often Satan provides a lie that it isn’t even him at work, but us. It’s the lie of the garden. It may actually be better to be actively Satanic than to be an atheist. Because at least the lie that one’s soul is not embracing spirit is not present.
God DOES want to empower the ungodly... with godliness.
It’s we who are holding the grudges. God isn’t.
And no it is not a trivialization. It is a big ole hatpin right into the balloon of one of Satan’s greatest deceptions, the inversion of the blessing and the curse.
And this is actually otherwise expressed as “DON’T UNDERSELL HEAVEN.”
A lot of thought in that post.
>> Often Satan provides a lie that it isn’t even him at work, but us.
I consider this statement consistent with my view that we exist in the baseline of godlessness. But not to be construed as existing without God.
Yep I agree with “baseline of godlessness.”
We know it better as a fallen creation.
There is no godlessness in heaven.
And heaven turns out to be something that is very gutsy. It is as gutsy as Christ on the cross. We don’t usually see pictures of the suffering Christ showing a steely determination. But there’s the bible again... “for the joy set before Him endured the cross.” Jesus suffered the cross for what... JOY? Are you insane?!? Well the bible says He did. And it turns out our own lives of fighting evil trace that same story once we are mature enough in Christ. It’s something that has to be experienced to be believed. You damn the torpedoes with a grin! And you win!
Now that makes me a very dangerous fundie... fortunately for the world, I’m only bent on being dangerous to Satan. I want to be everyone else’s friend, that will let me.
>> It is as gutsy as Christ on the cross.
>> And it turns out our own lives of fighting evil trace that same story once we are mature enough in Christ.
Two salient points that resonated with me since childhood.
Ender and the other characters in the book show no sexual or romantic interest in each other for the entire story of Ender’s Game. Apparently, failing to sexualize children (I think Ender was 11 at the end of the story) is intolerant in the warped view of the gay lobby.
So anyhow, our “politics” ought to be as illuminated by God as anything else we do.
And I now got to go for the blessing of sleep. Even though it is a Saturday. I don’t want to be in bed all day!
Good night.
G’night, FRiend.
So enjoyed reading your posts to each other on this thread.
Thanks for a well reasoned and faith filled discourse.
It represents the best of FreeRepublic.
Being anti homo sexual means one is homophobic? I doubt that
is very discriptive of most Americans. Very few people are phobic about homosexuals, homosexuals are not “feared” but pitied by most Americans,as human beings who engage in unatural sexual acts, which shorten their emotionally unbalanced lives, spread sickness, and cause painful confusion among children and adolescents.
That view is not being homophobic. Thats rooting politically for the A team and the natural order of the universe or Darwinian evolution, which does not, in the long run tolerate, buggery, beastiality, or tribadism, despite their desperate efforts to the contrary.
So who is trembling with homophobia? Not I. I accept them for who they are but most of the time simply pity them all, the poor lonely ba$tard$.
I read the original and the others as they became available - can't imagine a movie doing them justice because a movie glosses over the inner intellects and thought processes that make the stories what they are.
Reason is definitively subordinate to Faith.
I have to disagree. Pascal's wager may be the reason that a person initiates a search for God. Later this is reinforced by the use of logic and reason in determining the best course for that person.
Note I am not saying this is true in most or even all cases. I am saying it is one possible path.
Exactly my thought. For me the part(s) of the book I enjoyed the most were those that showed how he reasoned out/ learned the tactics that worked the best. It was comparable to watching a gifted chess player develop a winning style of their own by studying the tactics/methods of other great players.
They always confuse disgust with a phobia. Strange....
They’re such petty little Madame DeFarges.
I say you’re wrong!....where’s your credible link?
The Locke/Demosthenes subplot is left out of the movie. Can’t wait to see it.
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