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The following won the "Best Documentary" at a Christian Broadcasters' Awards ceremony 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.
(VICTOR)
Little do many of us realize -- that in a very real sense -- we're spending hours a day sitting before an idol a false god -- listening to his deceptions, traveling a road of celluloid and sound waves that only too often leads into the very belly of the beast. We will see that overtly occult and satanic influences are very real influences in Hollywood. However, the primary force behind all this visual and aural wickedness is nothing more sinister than the love of money.
(VOICE)
One of the most influential men in Hollywood is Francis Ford Coppola, director of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. Before he became an international sensation, he described his willingness as a young college student ... "to do anything to get to make more films, and the best opportunity was in the field of the exploitation film -- by which I mean nudie, science fiction, and horror films."
Coppola went on to describe his first job in Hollywood -- a remake of the Russian science fiction film Nebo Zoyet. In one of the saddest commentaries on the tastes of the film-going public as well as on the integrity of those who make films, he remembered:
I knew that the Russians made very warm, brotherly-love science fiction films and that no one in this country would ever want to see a science fiction picture that didn't have a lot of sex and violence in it. In one scene, for example, a Russian astronaut sees the figure of a Golden Astronaut -- a symbol of Hope -- standing on a crag. It was really lovely. The director said, "We've got to put two monsters on that crag." He wanted one monster to be a male sexual symbol and the other to be female. Obviously, one had to devour the other. We said to Roger, "This is just too much; you can't just..." But we could and we did -- matting in sex and violence where the Russians had the Golden Astronaut of Hope.
(VICTOR)
The real power behind Hollywood isn't some secret conspiracy of communists, Satanists, witches or some other crazy group. In large part, the media industry is simply giving us what we pay for. The simplest way to ensure that a film will make money is to include frequent scenes of gratuitous sex and violence which have nothing to do with the plot -- graphic scenes that could easily be edited without altering the meaning of the story. And from this, we can learn two very valuable lessons:
(VOICE)
One, that the Bible is right where it says: The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil(1 Timothy 6:10).
Two, the problem isn't ultimately with Hollywood, it's with us. And that is where the solution is going to have to begin.
(VICTOR)
Let us now us to briefly examine the dominant philosophy of art that floats around the periphery of the industry. Because while money motivates most producers, there are still those who cling to their idea of TRUTH They believe that music and film as art forms -- should "mean" something. And for these artists, there's another purpose for their craft besides simply filling movie theaters.
[Interviews: WHAT IS TRUTH?]
(VICTOR)
Without question, this existential philosophy, that TRUTH is whatever you make it, pervades Hollywood. In one form or another, a counterfeit idea of Truth provides the very foundation for the brave new world being fashioned by the media elite. This philosophy is perhaps best described as the CATHARTIC view of art, the idea that the best and the bravest way to come to terms with the dark passions of the human heart is to simply embrace them -- to give them detailed expression through the medium of film or music. For these "High Priests of Hollywood", the writer, the director, and the musician are there to lead us to the TRUTH that -- presumably -- lies waiting beyond the gates of hell.
(VOICE)
This scene was shot for Apocalypse Now, Francis Coppola's epic film. For Coppola, this journey into hell became a metaphor for, not only America's struggle in Vietnam, but the journey of both artist and audience into the dark light of being.
Director Martin Scorcese acknowledges that his films are cathartic therapy for his personal: ...anger and rage and craziness.
And Adrian Lyne, director of Fatal Attraction and 91/2 Weeks, deliberately explores the dark corners of the human psyche as a way of speaking: ...to something lurking somewhere inside all of us.
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