December 10, 2007, - 11:14 am
Critics’ Fave “There Will Be Blood” is Anti-Christian Rant
By Debbie Schlussel
Major film critics’ societies and individual reviewers from all over the country are raving about “There Will Be Blood,” a movie that debuts in New York and Los Angeles in late December and the rest of the country in January.
I have seen the movie, starring Daniel Day-Lewis. And while I’m prohibited from posting an early review, I can tell you this: About an oil prospector-cum-millionaire, the movie is an almost three hours of anti-Christian propaganda. One of the major characters in the movie is an Evangelical Christian preacher, who is portrayed as weird, mean, sleazy, and a phony who will say or do anything for money. And most of the congregants in his church are the same. When a person is killed working at an oil well, the preacher predictably blames it on the fact that the oil baron refused to allow him to bless the oil well. And there are other similar incidences throughout the movie.
I thought I’d like this movie, which at the beginning was beautiful and interesting, but it degraded into a saga of mystery, killing, and above all of that–anti-Christian ranting. And that’s probably why it will likely do well at the Oscars, next year.
If this is what mainstream movie critics love–and they do; they’re gushing over this movie–it says a lot about what they think of religious Christians: not much.
Merry Christmas.
Stay tuned for my complete review.
Tags: Christian Rant By Debbie Schlussel, Christmas, Daniel Day-Lewis, Debbie Schlussel Major, Los Angeles, New York, oil, oil baron, oil prospector-cum-millionaire, preacher, the Oscars, There Will Be Blood
Ben Stein on one of those Saturday morning finance shout down shows this past Saturday (but I do love them) (do wish they’d talk one at a time)said that Hollywood given two identically marketable, money making scripts will opt for the one that would be anti-religion, anti-(fill in the blank). Very similar to what you’re saying here. Hooray, for Hollywood. Sure ain’t your father’s Hollywood.
John Cunningham on December 10, 2007 at 12:16 pm