Posted on 01/11/2005 8:19:46 PM PST by Racehorse
Hollywood News]: New York, Jan 8 : Oliver Stone is deeply disappointed with the lukewarm response given to his epic film, 'Alexander The Great', courtsey the new fundamentalist morality in the United States.
Oliver will, therefore, change the offending homosexual scenes before the movie is released on DVD. "There's a raging fundamentalism in morality in the U.S.," The New York Post quoted Oliver as saying.
"The bond between men can be suggested in different ways. From day one, audiences didn't show up. They didn't even read the reviews in the South because the media was using the words, 'Alex the gay.'
The gays lambasted me for not making Alexander openly homosexual, and, in the Bible Belt pastors were up in the pulpit saying that to watch this film was to be tempted by Satan," he added. (ANI)
Oh, yeah, American film crickets are all fundies. You should see Roger Ebert at the snake-handling services.
Geez.
Oliver should spend less time on Kennedy and Nixon conspiracy theories and more on getting decent acting for his films.
coulda been the Fundamentalists, or it coulda been that the movie was a piece of cr@p.
Dide it ever occur to him that maybe it's just a lousy movie?
Wow, nice to know that when Hollywood lefties are faced with the choice of art or profit, they behave like the good little capitalists their pal Castro kills or imprisons.
Oliver if things offend you so much then just leave and move to Europe and make your movies there. No one is forcing you to stay here.
My youngest daughter saw it and said it was the latter -- CRAP! Said the acting was bad, story was bad, and didn't think much was good about the movie.
He need not delete it for me. I won't see it anyway...
I just don't trust his judgment when making historical movies.
If Alex was homosexual, portray him as such. It's true to historical fact.
As a Christian, I don't ask that lies be told about one's morality. But I'd rather watch it on the History Channel.
So Ollie why is morality so bad?
Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians. - Thomas Jefferson
If Christians would really live the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today. - Mohandas Gandhi
The Bible is the cornerstone of Liberty. - Thomas Jefferson
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. - George Washington
It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom. - Horace Greeley
A Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. - H.L. Mencken
Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner. - Elbert Hubbard
I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out. - Denis Diderot
He must be having trouble financing his next film.
Satan Recoils at Sacred Symbols, Says Holy Water "Burns Like Fire"
Let me get this straight....Oliver is pissed that people won't give him their money?
ACTUALLY, I think he'd do well to spend more time, thought, and money on his wardrobe. I saw him on Leno (or was it the other guy?) all hunched over, dressed like a bum, wearing ill-fitting jacket and ORANGE socks. Maybe orange socks are some new gay code for "I'm available" or "Keep away, I'm crossing my ankles at you."
I didn't see the movie but wonder whether Alexander wore orange socks. Or not.
Sour grapes.
Will Oliver also change the clown hair on Alex for the DVD?
Only a Leftist moron like Stone could believe the failure of his film was due to "fundamentalists."
Him and Alec Baldwin could share a duplex in Brussels...
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