http://forerunner.com/predvestnik/hollywood.html
The following won the "Best Documentary" at a Christian Broadcasters' Awards in Moscow. I produced the video with LOZA-TV in 2000. Victor Victorov narrates a script that has been translated and adapted from Reel to Real's HOLLYWOOD series written by Eric Holmberg.
PART 4 - SEX
(VICTOR)
Every time you turn on your TV today, you are bombarded with sensual and sexual images. We don't have to look far to find them, nor do we need to provide explicit examples here to prove that they exist. But we should note that these are there for a reason. Television producers and advertisers know that it's an easy way to grab the viewers attention. It is vital to advertisers to have an audience.
There is nothing innately wrong or sinful about the desire to view beauty or even the form of another human being. However, the Bible clearly teaches that sex was created for the covenant of marriage. While sex is a beautiful God-ordained action, God also warns against lust that can lead to sexual immorality and destroy the institution of marriage.
Love and sex are central to our humanity. But there is, unfortunately, no question that biblically we have taken our liberty and turned it into a cloak with which to cover our vice and perversion. Popular culture has now all but obliterated man's distinction as something noble -- as an image-bearer of God. Film, television, and music have effectively reduced him to a hairless ape living in an amoral universe where desire rules and where any barriers to its fulfillment are to be torn down and destroyed.
The question again is: How did it all come about? During what is commonly called the Golden Age of Movies, a 40 year period that began with silent films in the 1920s, there was a strong moral consensus among many film makers -- a consensus based primarily upon the teachings of Scripture. Out of these beliefs came a conviction that the film industry should use its new-found influence over a movie-hungry public to teach positive moral values.
(VICTOR)
We already spoke of the code of morality enforced by two Christian film offices in Hollywood. But when these offices closed in the 1960s, many professing Christians had little zeal for either the Lord or the real needs of the culture around them. They became spiritually lazy, failing to hold up the standard of God's Word, and here is where the majority fell into anti-Christian apostacy -- throwing off God's commandments all together and embracing the licentious and rebellious spirit. As a result, the Christian film offices were closed, the code was abandoned, and a new era began. And what an era it has become!
(VOICE)
When the Christian Code of ethics for films was finally abolished in 1966, the timing couldn't have been better. The radical youth movement with its emphasis on "free love" was at its peak. Naturally, Hollywood studios were eager to capitalize on these hot sexual trends... The effect on the American public was intoxicating and the long box-office lines around the country encouraged Hollywood to keep going further until every taboo was shattered in the name of commerce. Well, shatter taboos they did. One by one, Hollywood broke and then tried to erase every word the Lord has ever spoken on the subject of sex.
[EXAMPLES OF IMMORAL SEX WITH SCRIPTURES -- Ephesians 5:5, Revelation 21:27, 1 Corinthians 6:18, Acts 15:29, Colossians 3:5, 1 Thessalonians 4:3, 1 Corinthians 10:8]
Where God expressly forbids sex before marriage; likening it to idolatry and stating in the strongest language possible that: "no fornicator has any inheritance in the kingdom of God" -- 1 Corinthians 6:9&10 -- the edited version in Hollywood reads: Thou shalt lose thy virginity at the earliest opportunity -- preferably on prime-time.
Apparently, some stern decree has gone out from the upper reaches of the Hollywood establishment that love between married people must never be portrayed on the screen. Adultery is to be extolled far above love and sex between legally married couples.
The box-office smash Thelma and Louise practically shouted its feminist creed that men are bums and fulfillment for a woman can only be found after she's left her husband. In one particularly telling scene Brad Pitt removes Geena Davis's wedding ring as if it was a ball and chain ad then proceeds to show both her and the audience how wonderful adultery can be.
[Laughs at lunch table about how good it was.]
Partners change so often on the afternoon and prime-time soaps that magazines and newspapers do a brisk business just keeping score.
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Hollywood (Russian language documentary)
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SCUBONZIES 10 months ago
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elenafuckingalva 1 year ago 2
The Truth Hurts some, others are grateful. Depends upon what kind of American you are. IF you love the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, this is perfectly understandable. Is it not ? We owe our forefathers a lot.
SpringChatty 2 years ago
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Alexkrasnoshek 2 years ago