February 27, 2004
60-40 NATION:
Brother Driscoll has an amusing comparison of how the two sides are faring in the culture war.
Posted by Orrin Judd at February 27, 2004 8:19 AMOh, that doesn't matter to Hollywood or the left.
Posted by: pchuck at February 27, 2004 9:38 AMWell, if 'The Passion...' were to generate $ 200 million at the box office, I suspect that Hollywood would take notice.
They probably wouldn't make many good films, but they'd make plenty of "religious" films.
Posted by: Michael Herdegen at February 27, 2004 2:27 PM>>They probably wouldn't make many good films, but they'd make plenty of "religious" films.
Cf. the decade or so after "The Ten Commandments"; that was the era of Biblical sword-and-sandal-and-silk blockbusters like "Solomon and Sheba", "The Greatest Story Ever Told", "Land Of the Pharaohs", "Esther and the King", "Cleopatra", et al.
Posted by: Joe at February 27, 2004 10:11 PMMinor correction to my own post: actually, I think that wave began with "Quo Vadis" and "Ben Hur".
Posted by: Joe at February 27, 2004 10:12 PM