Recovering this weekend on the couch in a vat of Black and White Offerings from Turner Classic Movie Channel....Hours upon Hours actually.....of declared must see 'essential' classics. This was my first time watching the station. I love the art of film. It was exciting especially because they had no commercials and added an info preface about the movie; some even with banter between two movie buffs. It began with Hitchcock; Notorious, The Man who spoke Too Much, North by Northwest. Then the infamous Philadelphia Story, David Copperfield(My personal fav pic of them all which was new for me, now I want to read the Dickens Classic),Holiday and two more that I can't recall the titles of. Last night I tuned in again to catch a two hour Bio on Cecil B. Demille. It was fascinasting and fantastic.
Initially I thought that I was in for some wholesome experience from yester-years gone by. Some were of that genre,I really enjoyed them.
Yet to my amazement for the most part how many were polar opposite; sensual, obviously purposely sexual yet in a very subtile way that in my opinion was even more potent than today's in your face approach to sexuality. From the silent films...... in which sexual deviance was theatrically depicted in the orgies of Ancient Rome, people with multiple divorces, very unclad or provocatively dressed females, fornication .......et
Is it possible that when we look back in time, and even for that matter upon people's lives that we do a gloss over on reality? As if a 'Father's knows Best' world once existed devoid of the flesh, sin and tempations. In a time when it was the culturally demanded norm that you have a form of cultural christianity and be religous, was there a genuine 'revival' in our culture that manifested in the moral standards of Hollywood Films? Why do we believe that to be so? as if every film made before the 60's was It's a Wonderful Life. It was obvious as in the life of Cecil B Demille that this super religous man could compartmentalize his life.....he was wild.
Cecil B Demille said that sex and religion were the winning combo in filmaking. That's what made blockbuster hit movies.. It was the purposely linking those two elements together the commentator stated that made his comeback when he had become a has-been after talkies began having had flop after flop. He went on to be Iconic as a Director with many many hit movies and at 73 with great passion filmed The Ten Commandments.
It is also culturally acceptable in our day to compartmentalize our cultural christianity.
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Today we all watch as the world mourns Michael Jackson. It is honorable to speak well of the dead. But Are we doing our usual gloss over upon this mega star?
Let us not be conformed to this world.
God help me to approach this time of 'crisis' as a time of oportunity, as people are speaking of him,his life, his death to focus upon eternal things. Someone asked me the other day if I believed in Hell and where did I think Michael Jackson was going to end up eternally..I didn't answer his question but had the opportunity to share of the grace God offers the most vilest of sinners and how we all will have to answer God one day for how we responded to His Son.
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MUST EDIT THIS ONE TOO.
Initially I thought that I was in for some wholesome experience from yester-years gone by. Some were of that genre,I really enjoyed them.
Yet to my amazement for the most part how many were polar opposite; sensual, obviously purposely sexual yet in a very subtile way that in my opinion was even more potent than today's in your face approach to sexuality. From the silent films...... in which sexual deviance was theatrically depicted in the orgies of Ancient Rome, people with multiple divorces, very unclad or provocatively dressed females, fornication .......et
Is it possible that when we look back in time, and even for that matter upon people's lives that we do a gloss over on reality? As if a 'Father's knows Best' world once existed devoid of the flesh, sin and tempations. In a time when it was the culturally demanded norm that you have a form of cultural christianity and be religous, was there a genuine 'revival' in our culture that manifested in the moral standards of Hollywood Films? Why do we believe that to be so? as if every film made before the 60's was It's a Wonderful Life. It was obvious as in the life of Cecil B Demille that this super religous man could compartmentalize his life.....he was wild.
Cecil B Demille said that sex and religion were the winning combo in filmaking. That's what made blockbuster hit movies.. It was the purposely linking those two elements together the commentator stated that made his comeback when he had become a has-been after talkies began having had flop after flop. He went on to be Iconic as a Director with many many hit movies and at 73 with great passion filmed The Ten Commandments.
It is also culturally acceptable in our day to compartmentalize our cultural christianity.
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Today we all watch as the world mourns Michael Jackson. It is honorable to speak well of the dead. But Are we doing our usual gloss over upon this mega star?
Let us not be conformed to this world.
God help me to approach this time of 'crisis' as a time of oportunity, as people are speaking of him,his life, his death to focus upon eternal things. Someone asked me the other day if I believed in Hell and where did I think Michael Jackson was going to end up eternally..I didn't answer his question but had the opportunity to share of the grace God offers the most vilest of sinners and how we all will have to answer God one day for how we responded to His Son.
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MUST EDIT THIS ONE TOO.
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