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To: Huck

Doesn’t matter if DO make it. You have to get past the gatekeepers into the theaters. That won’t be allowed to happen.


107 posted on 12/30/2009 5:47:31 AM PST by Little Ray (Madame President sounds really good to me...)
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To: Little Ray
Doesn’t matter if DO make it. You have to get past the gatekeepers into the theaters. That won’t be allowed to happen.

Not impressed with your "can't do" attitude. But seriously, the conservative movement needs to think much BIGGER, and much more LONG TERM. Presumably, within the entire conservative movement, there is enough money for a few souls with extremely deep pockets (Limbaugh) to buy or form an entertainment conglomerate. If Limbaugh has the dough to buy a football team, he has the money to buy or form an entertainment company.

Such a company would have to be more than just a small concern dedicated to solely conservative-themed movies. It would have to be a legitimate business, and would have to produce enough movies of varying styles to stay profitable.

But among the entire range of movies produced could be movies with conservatve themes. And not overt, ham-handed, obvious ones. Not where the conservative theme was so obvious as to obscure the entertainment value.

Conservatives need to grab the reins of cultural power and get in the game. Why should Limbaugh waste his money on a football team, which has no significant cultural influence or value, when he could buy into something with strategic value?

There are a million small ways conservatives could subtley effect the culture. How about creating apps for Iphones? Maybe one is just a humor app---it gives you jokes. And many of the jokes could have a conservative slant. How about a history app for kids, that has a conservative slant.

But they ought not advertise the slant. The idea is to INFILTRATE the mainstream. Just act as if the ideas are normal (which they are.) Do not mention the political slant. Infiltrate.

111 posted on 12/30/2009 6:21:04 AM PST by Huck (The Constitution is an outrageous insult to the men who fought the Revolution." -Patrick Henry)
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To: Little Ray; Huck
Doesn’t matter if DO make it. You have to get past the gatekeepers into the theaters. That won’t be allowed to happen.

Not necessarily. Take a look at Fireproof.

It cost half a million to make and made 33 million. Plus, some people in Hollywood are beginning to catch on to the fact that Christians are a large and neglected market. If they can go one step further and realize that the same is true of conservatives, we'll get movies that make Cameron rip his hair out.

112 posted on 12/30/2009 8:21:48 AM PST by Mr. Silverback (We're right, we're free, we'll fight and you'll see!)
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