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December 06, 2005
Christian-themed filmmaking: We have to answer to God for how we treat people
In the VOICE, Anthony Kaufman concludes a survey of Hollywood forces—some relics of past decades, like 1970s-era studio topper Frank Yablans and Punisher-Aeon Flux producer Gale Ann Hurd—a tad shirtily: "Will this growing industry affect un-Christian entertainment like Brokeback Mountain? Fortunately for Brokeback, the film's reported $13 million budget is small enough that Focus Features need not cater to a massive audience... [As] producer James Schamus recently said... "If you're a homophobic asshole, I don't care. Just stay away." [But] Disney has a lot more riding on Narnia... Judging from the dozens of stories published in the mainstream press about the Narnia-Christian connection—The New York Times has run at least six since February—the "secular" establishment seems to be worried. As [one interviewee] says, "The idea of religious people acquiring media and artistic expertise is chilling to the secular left. I suppose they imagine that we will be as unfair and propagandistic with cultural power as they have been. But I pray we won't be. We have to answer to God for how we treat people."
Posted by pride at December 6, 2005 03:45 PM
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