If I Was Hollywood, I'd Want To Prove There Was No Hell Too.
Joe Escalante ·
Jul 14, 2010 at 10:33am
According to New York Magazine on line, Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace, Finding Neverland) is set to direct a film based on an NPR radio segment about an evangelical preacher ostracized by his flock for claiming to have a revelation that hell does not exist and we're all going to heaven.
I listened to the 30 second promo for it and immediately heard the kind of God bashing that really could whip Hollywood into enough of a frenzy to sink millions of dollars into this negative narrative. While the existence of an afterlife continues to be debated, I predict hell on earth will be more than evident to all investors in another anti-traditional values product like this from Hollywood.
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Jul '10
Re: If I Was Hollywood, I'd Want To Prove There Was No Hell Too.
Movies like this don't cause me to question God, but they do make me wonder about the theory of market discipline.
Jul '10
Re: If I Was Hollywood, I'd Want To Prove There Was No Hell Too.
Makes me want to watch Robert Duvall's "The Apostle" yet again.
May '10
Re: If I Was Hollywood, I'd Want To Prove There Was No Hell Too.
Sounds like the film will try to hit the two favorite notes of the unreligious and irreligious. First, that faith is bad - and here are some flawed humans to prove it! Second, that the joke's on the faithful because in the end we're all gonna be okay.
Yawn.
Jun '10
Re: If I Was Hollywood, I'd Want To Prove There Was No Hell Too.
If anyone is on their deathbed, and anxious to test the theory:
Revelation 14:9-11: And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
May '10
Re: If I Was Hollywood, I'd Want To Prove There Was No Hell Too.
I might watch this if the director had chosen an Islamic Iman instead of the usual Christian bashing. But that might take real courage; and really speaking Truth to Power.