Posted on 04/14/2005 11:33:01 AM PDT by Pyro7480
Since he was a homosexual, Oliver Stone should be interested.
http://www.arxpub.com/literary/Angels/AngelsinIron.html
NORTON!!!!
My thoughts exactly!
Ed Norton hits I haven't seen:
HARRY AND TONTO?
I guess Christians "made the problem" by being driven out of the Holy Land and North Africa, or being slaughtered or forced to convert, over the course of several centuries, before they determined to fight back.
I smell another anti-Christian Hollywood stink bomb. Unfortunately, this will play well in the Muslim world.
Of course, everyone (including most Catholics) believed this until about four years ago. Then some people began to reexamine the history that was taught them.
As was the Inquisition.
The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition"The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition," a 1994 BBC/A&E production, will re-air on the History Channel this December 3 at 10 p.m. It is a definite must-see for anyone who wishes to know how historians now evaluate the Spanish Inquisition since the opening of an investigation into the Inquisition's archives. The special includes commentary from historians whose studies verify that the tale of the darkest hour of the Church was greatly fabricated.
...The Inquisition Myth, which Spaniards call "The Black Legend," did not arise in 1480. It began almost 100 years later, and exactly one year after the Protestant defeat at the Battle of Mühlberg at the hands of Ferdinand's grandson, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. In 1567 a fierce propaganda campaign began with the publication of a Protestant leaflet penned by a supposed Inquisition victim named Montanus. This character (Protestant of course) painted Spaniards as barbarians who ravished women and sodomized young boys. The propagandists soon created "hooded fiends" who tortured their victims in horrible devices like the knife-filled Iron Maiden (which never was used in Spain). The BBC/A&E special plainly states a reason for the war of words: the Protestants fought with words because they could not win on the battlefield.
...What is documented is that 3000 to 5000 people died during the Inquisition's 350 year history. Also documented are the "Acts of Faith," public sentencings of heretics in town squares. But the grand myth of thought control by sinister fiends has been debunked by the archival evidence. The inquisitors enjoyed a powerful position in the towns, but it was one constantly jostled by other power brokers. In the outlying areas, they were understaffed - in those days it was nearly impossible for 1 or 2 inquisitors to cover the thousand-mile territory allotted to each team. In the outlying areas no one cared and no one spoke to them. As the program documents, the 3,000 to 5,000 documented executions of the Inquisition pale in comparison to the 150,000 documented witch burnings elsewhere in Europe over the same centuries.
...Discrediting the Black Legend brings up the sticky subject of revisionism. Re-investigating history is only invalid if it puts an agenda ahead of reality. The experts - once true believers in the Inquisition myth - were not out to do a feminist canonization of Isabella or claim that Tomas de Torquemada was a Marxist. Henry Kamen of the Higher Council for Scientific Research in Barcelona said on camera that researching the Inquisition's archives "demolished the previous image all of us (historians) had."
pffft....that all revisionist history :-)
As I said on a related thread, I'm going to wait until some Christian and Christian-sympathetic reviewers like Michael Medved actually see the film until I make my final call on whether I will see it or not.
So, in other words, as long as the depictions coincide with the liberal point of view, things will be okay.
It sounds as if he has Winston Smith's job.
I cannot say I admire Scott's thesis but I will not miss this movie. He's a helluva a movie maker. Alien and Gladiator assured his place in film history. His movies are really good. Did he do Black Hawn Down as well? I googled it and yep,you bet. Like his politics or hate them, he delivers the action goods in a huge way.
I cannot say I admire Scott's thesis but I will not miss this movie. He's a helluva a movie maker. Alien and Gladiator assured his place in film history. His movies are really good. Did he do Black Hawn Down as well? I googled it and yep,you bet. Like his politics or hate them, he delivers the action goods in a huge way.
I hope this won't be anti-Christian, but it probably will be.
I liked Troy.
Evangelical Christians are attacking it as well saying it presents the Muslims in a positive light and the Christians in a negative.
CAIR also says it is fair.
"Death to Smoochy" (2002)
That's alright. Nothing can ever take away from the powerhouse performance he gave in "American History X". Now there's a movie I never thought would be made in Hollywood.
Are you kidding? "Death to Smoochy" was hilarious.
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