Posted on 08/26/2015 5:36:49 AM PDT by wagglebee
Thanks wagglebee.
Great link! Thank you.
Though I do like Sad Sack, I like the superhero genre. Always have, and still draw it to this day.
Your solution is the ONLY antidote.
My favorite countercultural movies that were verrrry well done include Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ which despite the absolute refusal of Hollweird cooperation or even tolerance was magnificently successful at the box office as well and the great fact about the movie on the business side was that Gibson directed it, produced it, oversaw distribution of it and did not have to share the vast profit with the usual gang of Hollywood suspects. In having God working through Matthew, Mark, Luke and John as the writer, Gibson was quite likely to succeed. The man has personal flaws as do we all and has fallen short of the glory of God as do we all. His cinematic achievement with this movie should earn him support in all things moral and should never be forgotten.
Gibson also directed and starred in Braveheart which despite his adultery with the wife of the lavender crown prince (Edward II) had a raft of moral high points. That adultery did not occur since the lady in question (a French princess and daughter of King Philip the Fair) was a ten year old child living in France when William Wallace was executed. Edward III was her illegitimate son by a knight who was executed by Edward III upon attaining his majority and the throne.
Another favorite was For Greater Glory about the Catholic revolution in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s against the utterly evil regime of Mexican el presidente Plutarco Calles, an enemy of all religions. Peter O'Toole as a martyred pastor (one of his final roles), Andy Garcia as the previously atheist general who was the military leader of the revolution who became a Catholic. A great, true and seldom told story. During the final credits, the film shows actual footage of the execution by firing squad of the young Jesuit priest and martyr Miguel Pro who was condemned by a kangaroo court for the "crime" of saying Mass in the basement of a Mexico City home. The distribution of the film was severely restricted but it is available on DVD and well worth watching.
Hollywood was once a force for good. Louis Mayer of MGM was approached by a "friend" who complained about all those wholesome MGM films and particularly the Andy Hardy movies. The "friend" urged Mayer to make movies that would accept adultery and other evils as "normal" and were "more fit for adults."
Mayer was a Jew who came to the US as a refugee from Czarist Russia during the pogroms that resulted from the aborted revolution of 1905. Mayer told his "friend" that America and its people had taken him in, as a stranger, during his hour of greatest need and allowed him to become a very successful man making moral movies and that he would NEVER make movies that would harm the US or its people. Then he told his "friend" to get lost. We also need men who are good Jews like Louis Mayer.
God bless you and yours!
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