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'Secretariat' Movie Given Special Push to Faith-Based Filmgoers
Fox News ^ | 10/7/10 | Jo Piazza

Posted on 10/09/2010 7:39:38 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta

Enter Secretariat. The true-life story about a woman horse breeder, played by Diane Lane, who defies the odds to create a Triple Crown winner, has the kind of inspirational story that Disney is banking will appeal to the same faith-based audiences that turned “The Blind Side,” produced by Warner Bros., into a $250 million blockbuster.

Disney has been marketing “Secretariat” to the Bible Belt by organizing special screenings of the film, which hits theaters on Oct. 8, for Christian bloggers, reviewers and influencers, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

They have also produced special marketing materials for the audience. Screening invites sent to non-religious outlets described the film’s story in purely secular terms.

But for the benefit of Christian reviewers, the invitation goes on to add that “The movie is directed by Randall Wallace….Not only is Randall one of the most successful directors of all time, he is also a devout Christian .”

So is Disney pandering to Christians, or is their outreach seen as a positive step by religious audiences?

Or both?

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To: Dr. Scarpetta

Geez! What a sorry, self absorbed, sorry sack of excrement this Salon critic is. This twit is one of the most angry little minded people I have read in my life. His entire worldview eminates around the radical 60’s duds who are now running our cuntry.

To think that Ebert sounds sane compared to this twerp says it all. Hey Andrew, did your mommy take your binkey way before you turned 6? Or maybe she kept you in pampers till then?


41 posted on 10/09/2010 8:29:47 AM PDT by mazda77 (Rubio - US Senate, West FL22nd, Scott/Carroll - FL Gov/LtGov, Miller-AK US Senate)
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42 posted on 10/09/2010 8:35:32 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

Thank you, Doc. What a nice pic. I started bugging my parents for a horse as soon as I could say the word and kept telling them we could keep it in the garage. I’m surprised they didn’t spank me into oblivion for my pouting about it. I still have my first and prized big plastic black horse complete with a shoelace as a bridle and reigns (I lost the plastic one early on.) I keep him in the safe with the guns and my kids’ hospital bracelets.


43 posted on 10/09/2010 8:37:00 AM PDT by Miss Behave
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To: Miss Behave

You’re very welcome...


44 posted on 10/09/2010 8:40:50 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

People must remember that the reason why the sports world was cheated out of Secretariat running as a 4 year old was because federal inheritance laws required the Chenery heirs to raise money quickly. Ravenous government sent him to the sidelines. Up to then, the Chenerys had raced their prospective studs (including Riva Ridge, the previous year’s Kentucky Derby winner).

So the movie is truthful in that respect.

PS. Still, Citation was the best horse of the 20th Century, followed by Man o’ War.


45 posted on 10/09/2010 8:41:02 AM PDT by qwertypie
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46 posted on 10/09/2010 8:47:32 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

Citation had the best year of any American horse ever in 1948. Sure, he won the Triple Crown with ease and won at every distance. But what set him apart was his early, pre-Derby wins against the top American horses of the previous year before he had actually become 3 calendar years old — unheard of. There’s no telling what his record would have looked like if he hadn’t been run into the ground and injured by season’s end.


47 posted on 10/09/2010 8:54:33 AM PDT by qwertypie
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To: Kirkwood

Thoroughbreds do have very thin legs. It’s something that has been bred into them, sometimes with disastrous results.

“Thoroughbreds are born to run, bred to win, and will literally race to death.”

As a Kentuckian I think I’m required to see this movie :)


48 posted on 10/09/2010 9:05:41 AM PDT by brothers4thID (http://scarlettsays.blogspot.com/)
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To: Kirkwood
I don't know, maybe it will show up here.
49 posted on 10/09/2010 9:47:41 AM PDT by rabidralph
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

Conservatism is on the rise. Fiscally. And culturally.

Period.

Commies, progressives and libs are on suicide watch.


50 posted on 10/09/2010 9:47:58 AM PDT by nhwingut (Palin/Bachmann '12)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

I will.


51 posted on 10/09/2010 9:50:59 AM PDT by netmilsmom ("Happiness is a choice"-Fr. Ben Ludtke. Pray for healing of his Brain Tumor, pls.)
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To: NavyCanDo

>>“Marx Brothers - A Day At The Races” <<

“Getta you Ice acream! Tutsi Fruitis Ice acream”

“I’m getting a fine tutsi frutsing right here.....”

(My 12-year-old gave me that quote. I taught her well)


52 posted on 10/09/2010 9:58:21 AM PDT by netmilsmom ("Happiness is a choice"-Fr. Ben Ludtke. Pray for healing of his Brain Tumor, pls.)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

I just wish that we would NOT politicize specific movies and leave it to the audience or the market to determine if it likes the movie or not and what it derives from the two hour experience in viewing it.

Having said that I have nothing against analyzing the movie industry or several movies over a good length of time to demonstrate a trend but singling this movie out as representative of the Tea Party movement or right-wing propaganda especially when it is a biography is simply vacuous and a Leftist effort to cause circumscription among American filmgoers.


53 posted on 10/09/2010 10:07:10 AM PDT by techno
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

We plan to see this film because it sounds interesting. Too many films have been just boring.


54 posted on 10/09/2010 10:18:36 AM PDT by Dante3
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We plan to see this film because it sounds interesting. Too many films have been just boring.

...or sadistic. When I see some of the previews, I'm turned off at the gratuitous violence.

55 posted on 10/09/2010 10:26:28 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: netmilsmom

“My 12-year-old gave me that quote. I taught her well”

Good job. My 9-year old son loves listening to my Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy Show cassets when he goes to bed. He quotes from Charlie all the time. “I’ll mow ya down” is his most frequent quote. Many a night I’ll hear him laughing his head off when he should be sleeping. But I say what the heck - count my blessings


56 posted on 10/09/2010 11:04:58 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: brothers4thID
Secretariat winning the Triple Crown


57 posted on 10/09/2010 11:18:37 AM PDT by newfreep (Palin/DeMint 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: NavyCanDo

:)


58 posted on 10/09/2010 11:26:48 AM PDT by netmilsmom ("Happiness is a choice"-Fr. Ben Ludtke. Pray for healing of his Brain Tumor, pls.)
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To: netmilsmom

He also likes Gilligan’s Island, Adams Family, The Munsters, Flipper, and other 60’s TV shows. And between Netflix and my DVDs he will never run out of them.

He’s proof the apple does not fall far from this tree.


59 posted on 10/09/2010 11:33:43 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: NavyCanDo

I loved Seabiscuit and hope this will be in the same vein as inspirational.

Besides...Diane Lane looks gorgeous.


60 posted on 10/09/2010 11:51:41 AM PDT by max americana (Hoax and Chains, Dopeychangey)
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