More than 20 guesses, and still no winner on Half-Shot Contest #9.
Okay, here’s a little more of the picture…
If you love movies, I’m pretty sure you know this film.
More than 20 guesses, and still no winner on Half-Shot Contest #9.
Okay, here’s a little more of the picture…
If you love movies, I’m pretty sure you know this film.
Harold and Maude!
CONGRATULATIONS, Michael!
You’ve got it.
Wow, did that slight expansion of the photo really make the difference?
“Of course, he had enough conscience to realize the evil in what he’d done… so there’s a point in his favor.”
After seeing Howard’s ultra-nervous state on Leno last week & how Hanks is subtly distancing himself from DVC, I’m thinking they realize what they’ve done. I very much hope & pray that they’ll repent & ask God for forgiveness, if they’ve not already.
But Howard & his production team have known for quite a while what they were making. In another recent thread on this blog I mentioned a co-producer of DVC who mentioned that the film was “conservativel anti-Christian.” Well, I got the quote wrong. John Calley, DVC co-producer & former Sony chairman actually called the film “‘conservatively anti-Catholic,’ as opposed to destructively so” in an August 2005 NYT piece. Here’s a link to a reprint of the article that appeared on the Internatial Herald Tribune website.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/05/news/davinci.php
Make no mistake. They knew exactly what sort of film they were making. They knew it was offensive to Christians. Yet they made it anyway & thought spin & *dialogue* would help sell it. But I’d wager that even the best salesman couldn’t sell doo-doo that stinks this bad. It deserves to fail.
I dunno, I don’t think “conservatively anti-Catholic” automatically translates to “offensive to Christians”. Many Christians oppose Catholicism on a number of points — and as Barbara Nicolosi has noted, that may be one of the reasons why evangelicals have been much more eager to “engage” with this film than Catholics have.
Since Dan Brown is a self-professing Christian himself, albeit of the heretical John Shelby Spong variety, I would not be surprised if those who don’t claim any Christian allegiance at all saw the book’s historical claims as a slam against Catholicism only, rather than as a slam against universally orthodox Christian beliefs. And I would not be surprised if John Calley spoke as one of these outsiders.
. . . Howard’s worst film since Far and Away.
Hmmm, I’ve never seen Far and Away (1992). Or The Paper (1994). But if it’s worse than How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), that’s definitely saying something.
Is that The Bonfire of the DaVincis I see burning?