The Passion of the Christ is Opening Soon

The March back to Morals and Quality is Joined

 

By Lisa Sarrach and Kevin Fobbs

 

As we approach the long awaited opening of The Passion of the Christ on Ash Wednesday, the 25^th of February, Hollywood-Hero would like to thank everyone who has signed our petition over the last 8 months.

 

This upcoming film event has sparked a furor of controversy, much of which has been documented on our site.  The most vocal qualms have come from the Anti-Defamation League, a very outspoken Jewish organization.

 

Mr. Gibson appeared on Prime Time Live Monday evening with Diane Sawyer to address many of the questions posed by these Jewish organizations and others and why he felt so motivated to make this film.

 

We have provided a link to The Passion’s website that lists the theaters where The Passion is going to be shown.  Be forewarned, however, that while 2000 screens can be interpreted as a wide release, you may have to travel a bit, depending on where you live, to find it.

 

With this drama coming to a close and the film available to one and all, it’s time to take a step back and remember why we at Hollywood-Hero decided to start the petition to support the film in the first place.

 

Many who have signed our petition and others, who have advocated for its release, have done so more for religious reasons than any other driving factor.  We, as our petition states, were driven to support Mr. Gibson’s efforts because he was refused financing by the same studios in Hollywood that he made billions for during the course of his career.

 

We felt then and feel now that Hollywood would be better served to listen to those who actually go to the movies and to start the march back to morals, responsibility, and talent when choosing what films to finance.  We’ve stated in previous writings on our website, how much money family friendly films have made over the course of the last year.

 

Mr. Gibson’s film, The Passion of the Christ, purports to show the last 12 hours of Jesus Christ as told in the Gospels.  That’s a story hundreds of millions of people across this globe will want to see.  It shouldn’t have been so difficult to achieve.  Back in the day, the Hollywood studios gave us The Ten Commandments and The Greatest Story Ever Told.  Now they give us American Pie and Jackass, the Movie.  They market sex and violence to our children and call it art.  Mel Gibson should forever be commended for staking his personal fortune to return us to a time when we can see a religious story told once again.

 

We hope that The Passion of the Christ does wonderful business and that Mel Gibson gets a good return on his investment.  He is certainly marketing it to the faithful and our churches with great gusto.  His marketing scheme might well be a great combination of his faith, of possible conversions and a recoup of his investment, ours however, is a bit more secular in nature.

 

We want more, not less filmmaking that inspires us, entertains us, and that we can take our children to.  We want more television that does the same thing and doesn’t continue to push that envelope to the point where television is no longer an option when children are in the room.

 

It is time to stop the clock and rewind it.  Rewind it to the time when our Judeo-Christian roots, moral code, and personal lifestyles were not fodder for the Liberal Elite.  No longer a subject of derision for baby-boomer writers to continually mock.  Not anymore, we’re done.

 

The sixties are over, forty years over and it’s time we all grew up and remembered the children.  If we don’t, we’ll no longer have any future generations to concern ourselves with.

 

For those who will go and see The Passion of the Christ to feel Jesus’ last hours as a Christian, God bless you and Godspeed.  For those who want to send a message to Hollywood that we will no longer abrogate our responsibility as citizens of the greatest country ever on the face of the Earth, be fruitful and multiply yourself to a theater near you.

 

We will continue to demand that our entertainment reflect our values and not Hollywood’s debauched version that still reeks from those funny cigarettes smoked forty years ago and still burning in the hills and valleys of Southern California.

 

 

Postscript:  Stay tuned for another chapter in The Sixties Are Over, Get Over It and Grow Up, and coming to a website near you.

 

Lisa Sarrach is president of Hollywood-Hero.  Kevin Fobbs is Vice-President.  You can reach the writers at hero@hollywood-hero.us or visit them on the web at www.hollywood-hero.us