Thursday, March 16, 2006

DVC "Othercott" Reminder - Spread the Word!

WHAT ARE YOU DOING MAY 19TH?

May 19th is the date the Da Vinci Code movie opens. A movie based on a book that wears its heresy and blasphemy as a badge of honor.

What can we as Christians do in response to the release of this movie? I'm going to offer you the usual choices -- and a new one.

Here are the usual suspects:

A) We can ignore the movie. ........

The problem with this option: The box office is a ballot box. The only people whose votes are counted are those who buy tickets. And the ballot box closes on the Sunday of opening weekend. If you stay home, you have lost your chance to make your vote heard. You have thrown your vote away, and from Hollywood's point of view, you don't count. By staying home, you do nothing to shape the decision-making process regarding what movies will make it to the big screen.

B) We can protest. ........

The problem with this option: It doesn't work. Any publicity is good publicity. Protests not only fuel the box office, they make all Christians look like idiots. And again, protests and boycotts do nothing to help shape the decisions being made right now about what movies Hollywood will make in the next few years. (Or they convince Hollywood to make *more* movies that will provoke Christians to protest, which will drive the box office up.)

C) We can discuss the movie. We can be rational and be ready with study guides and workshops and point-by-point refutations of the lies promulgated by the movie. ........

The problem with this option: No one's listening. They think they know what we're going to say already. We'll lose most of these discussions anyway, no matter how prepared we are, because the power of story
always trumps the power of facts (why do you think Jesus taught in parables?!). And once again: rational discussion of history does nothing to affect Hollywood's choices regarding what movies to make.

But there's a fourth choice.

On May 19th, you should go to the movies.

Just go to another movie.

Save the date now. May 19th, or May 20th. No later than Sunday, May 21st -- that's the day the ballot box closes. You'll get a vote, the only vote Hollywood recognizes: The power of cold hard cash laid down on a box office window on opening weekend.

Use your vote. Don't throw it away. Vote for a movie
other than DVC. If enough people do it, the powers that be will notice. They won't have a choice.

The major studio movie scheduled for release against
DVC is the DreamWorks animated feature Over the Hedge. The trailers look fun, and you can take your kids. And your friends. And their friends. In fact, let's all go see it.

Let's rock the box office in a way no one expects -- without protests, without boycotts, without arguments, without rancor. Let's show up at the box office ballot box and cast our votes. And buy some popcorn, too.

May 19th. Mark your calendars now:
Over the Hedge's opening weekend. Buy a ticket.

And spread the word. Forward this e-mail to all the Christians in your address book. Post it on your blogs. Talk about it to your churches. And let's all go to the movies.

22 comments:

Jeffrey Overstreet said...

Uhhhh...

Is there ANYTHING else opening?

Is Over the Hedge really the best we can do?

Jeffrey Overstreet said...

And by the way, Barbara, are you aware that THIS weekend's big opener, "V for Vendetta," portrays the Catholic church as a conspiratorial organization that cooperates with fascist governments, and whose most influential bishop is a pedophile who likes to bring little girls in pigtails into his chambers for sex games, and whose favorite sex game is called "Confession"?

Just so you know.

RC said...

jeffrey...the only other movies opening up wide that day is the horror pic "See No Evil"...the weekend before "Goal! The Dream Begins," "Just My Luck," and "Posiedon" open.

See this post on my blog to see how the Christian world has influenced the movie Just My Luck:

http://strangeculture.blogspot.com/2006/01/meet-afters-watch-wave.html

--RC of strangeculture.blogspot.com

owenswain said...

I made 3 free buttons to support the DVC "Othercott". You can get "copy and paste code" them here or here and put them on your blog or site.

Anonymous said...

Fear this movie because it's a Ron Howard movie, not because it may contain errors about the faith; because of it's misuse of image and sound (and their marriage) that subconsciously teaches one how to be inauthentic and makes the truly authentic seem more and more alien. It will also make one crave other such movies - and the useless controversies surrounding them.

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greystoke77 said...

I have a fifth alternative to suggest: Go to the movie and take a non-Christian friend.

After the movie, LISTEN to what they say. Let them speak. Don't debate with them, but do share what Jesus has done in your life.

Allow God to use the questions in whatever way He chooses. Who knows, maybe the questions will lead to more of a possibility for faith than the arguments ever would.

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Anonymous said...

OK, let's not reward Hollywood for blaspheming against Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Catholic Church, please. If you want to make a difference, join one of these 1,000 prayer vigil protests. Question: Do they work? Answer: Show me a theater or business that welcomes protest, and I'll show you a business that going out of business fast.

For more info., visit:

http://www.tfp.org/davincicode/index.htm

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