Arkady
President
Recently, there have been a bunch of big-name, big budget Hollywood pictures aimed at Christians, starting with the success of Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ. This year, that will include Russell Crowe in the Noah story, and Christian Bale in the Exodus story. Anyway, I read a cultural commentator talking about that, making the point that Hollywood has just identified an underserved demographic from which they can profit. So far so good. But then he characterized that underserved demographic as people who won’t go to the theater to see films full of sex and violence. I just had to laugh.
Yes, these Christian-oriented films tend to be fairly lacking in sex. The physical expression of love seems to make such people uncomfortable, so films aimed at them make sure to keep any sex off screen. But they are some of the most violent films you’ll ever see. Most of the screen time of the Passion of the Christ consisted of gruesomely detailed depiction of an innocent man being tortured to death. Torture-porn films like “Saw” have nothing on it. The Noah film is likely to be far more violent, even, than that. The whole story is about the premeditated murder of nearly every living human (along with the mass slaughter of nearly every other animal on the planet). Exodus will presumably include a scene where Yahweh sends his spirit door-to-door deliberately killing innocent children, targeting them for their race, as part of a scheme of political terrorism, since that’s a major plot point from the story. If Hollywood has accurately pegged the Christian audience, it must be an incredibly bloodthirsty demographic.
Yes, these Christian-oriented films tend to be fairly lacking in sex. The physical expression of love seems to make such people uncomfortable, so films aimed at them make sure to keep any sex off screen. But they are some of the most violent films you’ll ever see. Most of the screen time of the Passion of the Christ consisted of gruesomely detailed depiction of an innocent man being tortured to death. Torture-porn films like “Saw” have nothing on it. The Noah film is likely to be far more violent, even, than that. The whole story is about the premeditated murder of nearly every living human (along with the mass slaughter of nearly every other animal on the planet). Exodus will presumably include a scene where Yahweh sends his spirit door-to-door deliberately killing innocent children, targeting them for their race, as part of a scheme of political terrorism, since that’s a major plot point from the story. If Hollywood has accurately pegged the Christian audience, it must be an incredibly bloodthirsty demographic.
