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Making money against your beliefs...
ruger270man
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Okay, scenario. Lets say that a movie was going to be made, and the production studio wanted you to be in it. Figure they are going to pay you 3 million for the movie.. Great right? Heres the catch. The movie is so blatantly anti-gun, and also goes against many of your other beliefs... I'm talking Bowling for Columbine type stuff, Runaway Jury type stuff, but with a plot. You even have a line in the movie that says "Guns are the tools of the devil."
So, $3 million, against your beliefs.. and its gonna be a huge box office smash too.. lots of people will see it... Would you do it?
My answer is definitely no, my beliefs with the RKBA are too strong.
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So, $3 million, against your beliefs.. and its gonna be a huge box office smash too.. lots of people will see it... Would you do it?
My answer is definitely no, my beliefs with the RKBA are too strong.
www.awbansunset.com
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The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
You take the part and the movie is a HUGE success. After the movie hits the streets you hold it up for what it is a sham, phoney as the dickens.
You were in the movie, your celebrity gives you an entree' to the press and a forum that you would otherwise NOT have.
I'd take the part, the money and then reveal it for the trash that it was!
"the difference between the almost right word and the right word is like the difference between a lightning bug and a lightning bolt" - Mark Twain.
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BW
IT'S WHAT PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THEMSELVES THAT MAKES THEM AFRAID.
If you only have time to do two things so-so, or one thing well ... do the one thing!
T. Jefferson: "[When doing Constitutional interpretation], let us [go] back to the time when [it] was adopted. [Rather than] invent a meaning [let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
Spend the $3Mill to build a (beeeeeep) big Shooting Gallery including a gunstore and a workshop.
$3Mill should stretch a whole lot.. but I don't know.
Promote the Shooting gallery/Range through small TV-commercials in a Pro-Gun fashion, i.e. indirectly let the audience know that you're Pro-Gun and the movie was just a part of a whole movie.
Effectively just being a means to an end - a pathway to a Shooting Gallery/Range.
Don't do anything that I've allready done - That'd be just plain STOOOOOOPID.
My beliefs are not for sale..............
Guns only have two enemies: Rust and Liberals....
X-ring!!!!!!
Mine aren't either
Woods
What if the part demanded that you worship an idol, or make a speech against America, or cheated on your wife??
Same answer - NO!
God Bless America and...
NEVER Forget WACO
NEVER, EVER Forget 911
Now would somebody please pay up[?]
Who cares about a role in a movie. The Bruce Dern Characters were the worst guys in the world and he is a descent person. Do you guys really think people are the characters they portray?
Heck I would say it for $1000 and then go and buy another rifle![;)]
Sincerely, Lucifer [}:)]
Mad Dog
Mateomasfeo
"I am what I am!" - Popeye
Therefore, to speak of going against one's beliefs when it comes to making movies shows a complete lack of understanding of what movies are: Entertainment. And the fact that they are entertainment does not change even if we choose to elevate them into the realms of reality and truth. That is why a pro-gunner looking at Bowling For Columbine can say, "I think not!", and the anti-gunner sitting in the seat behind can say with equal conviction, "I thought so!". If it is only a matter of belief, what do movies really matter? Will Michael Moore ever convince you that he is right? Will you ever convince Michael Moore that he is wrong? The whole idea is to sell tickets and popcorn. Get over it.
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I'd take the 3 million and invest it in assault weapons, make free public speeches that I'm pro-gun and the script for the movie was written by some suburban soccer mom whom shouldn't have a gun anyways.
Claim all my speeches as charity for income tax filing, a 1.5 Million line item for charity donations for the year.
But you other people have a GREAT thinking point.....take the money and spend some for the gun guys.
Be responsible
Be intelligent
Be REPUBLICAN
hey dws, you dont think movies have an effect on people, and their political beliefs? When I think of how stupid the majority of people in the world are today, I tend to believe that they have to be influenced by something as simple as a movie.
Absolutely. And that influence obtains whether the message contained is a conservative or liberal one. The point, however, is that viewer agreement or disagreement with the message is not the criterion upon which good movies are judged. Neither does truth enter into it; I can view Sands of Iwo Jima and Born on the Fourth of July with equal conviction (or disbelief), and this despite their messages being diametrically opposed. What I am saying is that if Bowling For Columbine was rewritten and reshot with you as director to convey a pro-gun message, it would be no more true and still suck as a movie as much as the original, all other things remaining equal. That people allow themselves to be influenced by a movie one way or the other says more about them than the movie itself; and just as you were not convinced by Michael Moore's vision of reality, neither will other viewers be convinced by yours, no matter how objective and truthful your presentation. As this relates to your original post, it really doesn't matter what your beliefs are or what your message is, a good movie will have influence that a bad one will not; to make a bad movie that nobody sees or nobody agrees with will have little influence, even if your message is just. Hence my remark about selling tickets and popcorn. This is not to say that you cannot also make a smash hit that presents your personal beliefs; it is to say that your personal beliefs are only incidental to it being a smash hit.
3 million is not enough to make me adopt the hypocrisy of those who think the rich get private armed guards and the poor get to be victims while they wait for law enforcement. This is IMO the essential truth of the hollywood gun control culture, and I would not support their position for any amount of money.
Money does not buy virtue or honor.
that's my .02, nutty or otherwise
They'd rather have it laid out in an audio-visual wide screen format where they can sit in a semi-comfortable semi- recliner and look upon beautiful people re-creating fictitious events from the mind of a demented screenwriter as adapted from a book by an equally demented author and assembled for mass consumption by a self-appointed demi-god of a director.
LOL! [:D] Thats great.
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"There is nothing lower than the human race - except the French." (Mark Twain) ". . . And DemoCraps" (me)
Now if your asking if I would be a national spokesperson on something I felt strongly about. My answer would be NO!!!
Acting and representing are two different things to me.
Mad Dog
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