Hollywood! The town that’s afraid to make terrorist villains come from the Middle East is now making a movie about the Catholic Church’s sex abuse scandal. How brave.
Because you know, nobody’s heard or read anything about this subject so people will really be on the edge of their seats the entire movie to see if the brave newspapermen actually learn that the Church was covering up a sex abuse scandal.
I seriously ask, is Hollywood interested in actually making money anymore or just furthering an agenda?
Deadline reports:
The producers intend to frame the movie in the vein of All The President’s Men. One of the planned film’s hooks is that some of the journalists are themselves Catholic and were conflicted as they researched and wrote their stories. This journalism angle seems a fascinating way to approach the topic. And, interestingly, the Boston Globe investigative team was headed by Ben Bradlee, Jr., son of the legendary Washington Post editor who stood behind Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein when their Watergate reporting was assailed by Richard Nixon’s White House.
I wonder if the reporters will all decide that the celibacy requirement is at fault.
No word yet on whether Bill Maher or Sinead O’ Connor have been offered roles.
April 30, 2010 at 11:08 pm
Gosh, who would have ever guessed that Hollywood is the home base of cheap, mendacious prejudice? Or that many of its leading lights have the ethics, morals and intelligence of over-heated poodles?
May 1, 2010 at 4:13 am
"…the ethics, morals and intelligence of over-heated poodles? "
Just what do you have against poodles?
May 1, 2010 at 5:12 am
Already been done:
http://www.vowsofsilencefilm.com/trailer.html
May 1, 2010 at 3:17 pm
It can make money because it implicitly justifies the failures of lay folks. "If priests can cheat, so can I" is the implicit message and that will sell because adultery and fornication will look and feel less evil. And even if it does not sell, the great liar will use it to encourage sin and continuous slide. So, there's more at work here than meets the eye.
May 1, 2010 at 4:24 pm
this would be the same Hollywood that champions Roman Polanski, no?
May 2, 2010 at 5:49 pm
It won't make a dime, but I can follow the angle.
Exposing the Church's corruption through lay men hasn't really been done yet, so they think it'll be a more effective anti-organized religion message. Now everybody yoga!
May 4, 2010 at 6:26 pm
If it don't have albino monk assassins, I'm out.