Christmas Cinema
Aloha kākou and Happy Aloha Friday. They don’t make movies like they used to do anymore. If they tried to make a movie production today, it would be loaded up with woke ideology. Making movies unwatchable and offensive to the theater going audience. Why spend $12 dollars for a movie ticket to watch 90 minutes of crap on the silver screen. If I wanted to torture myself with bad cinema I’d watch HBO, Netflix’s, or the Babylon Bee on my home devices. At subscription rates only.
For example: In This episode of the Babylon Bee, FBI Agent Jim Johnson has seen many horrors in his time but few compare to the repulsive work of friendly Christian extremists who love their enemies and want them to go to Heaven. Take caution watching this NSLM - Not Suitable for Leftist Minds.
Horrible, isn’t it. Unsocial Media sites like YouTube, Rumble, Bitchute, and Odysee, carry this content. Or you can go to the Babylon Bee Website and be exploited to your heart’s content. The latest trend in cinema is movies made entirely in Artificial Intelligence. Human actors replaced with computer-generated replications. Humans can interact with these computer generated actors in their own fantasy simulations.
I would much prefer a holodeck experience over wearing Google Goggles. Wearing a virtual device is like wearing a feedbag for my eyes. Plus, the simulation would be interrupted constantly with infomercials. These virtual reality experiences would never match the look and feel of reality. The artwork and magic of cinematic filming is a lost craft. The photographic realism, artwork, costumes, landscapes, and acting is like being there in the presence of naturalistic realism.
As in this faithful rendering from the movie Ben-Hur made in 1959. After being enslaved by the Romans, Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) is forced on a brutal march to be pressed into service aboard a galley. When his captors deny him water upon arriving in Nazareth, a local carpenter defies the Romans to show Ben-Hur mercy.
They don’t make movies like this anymore. Yet there is an audience out there yearning for more movies with faith-based themes like Ben-Hur. The big movie studios won’t make films with faith, family, and freedom themes anymore. They’re afraid such films would alienate some from the viewing audience. Meaning films with Christian based themes. They’re too expensive, they say. So, the movie Mongols stopped making these masterpieces of film art.
The War on Christmas has been going on for decades. Only small motion-picture studios like Angel Studios produce Christian based family films. Their audience and following is huge, but these films do not get the attention and recognition from the secular media. There are some television sitcoms that try to bring Christian theme message into their programming. Television sensors were very scrutinizing regarding religious content.
This 1968 episode of Star Trek titled “Bread and Circuses” is a magnificent science fiction tribute to Christianity and its origins in Rome. Today’s television sitcoms are raunchy and boring. Some are retreads of old shows that have lost their luster.
Even the Peanuts cartoon Christmas special was criticized for having a biblical reading. Linus’s Christmas speech, from A Charlie Brown Christmas, is a famous recitation of the biblical passage from Luke 2:8-14. Leftists wanted that scene to be taken out, but it would have ruined the whole meaning of Christmas.
The left’s influence in the motion picture industry is fading. They’re in serious trouble. They’re losing audiences and money. Many of these Golden Age Hollywood studios have consolidated to create a Hollyweird version of cinematic art. It lacks style and imagination.
It’s now up to independent film makers that are rising up in the cinematic universe. Using the latest technologies to create remarkable short features, documentaries, and feature films. This masterpiece created by Mr. Reagan USA combines AI with comedic timing. The music and audio are in the fashion of old timey films. The voice overs include President Trump as Santa with the story narrator sounding suspiciously like Bing Crosby. “Trump saves Christmas when Santa Claus catches a cold.”
Christmas Cinema isn’t so bad when it’s created by those who are blessed with the Christmas Spirit. Those priceless gems filmed long again can be watched over, and over again. The growing industry of independent filmmakers is getting popular through Unsocial Media outlets. They bring us memories of joy from past seasons. We need this now more than ever today to bring back what was long forgotten to say,“Merry Christmas To All and Happy New Year.”
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Excellent analysis! I’m curious, what specific aspects of modern cinema often labbeled 'woke ideology' do you find most challenging for viewers, given many groups are simply seeking more inclusive and representative storytelling?