"Catholics should boycott the film" Diego Ross ". The Hollywood film circle must reflect on how many films they have made in the past to slander Catholicism..."
On the computer screen, a young man in a red baseball cap put forward his words. In addition to the previous news about the Catholic Archbishop of central and South California, Marquez Costello, Michael arted, chairman of the directors'' Union Council, frowned. When are Hollywood movies and Hollywood directors going to tell the story?
"Michael..."
Bill rosis, sitting next to him, suddenly said, "the freedom of Hollywood to draw materials is the most basic right of directors."
"I know." Michael arted was obviously thinking about something.
Bill rosis laughed and said, "this time the Catholic Church will step in and interfere. Next time, maybe other organizations will step out."
There are many organizations protesting against Hollywood films, such as the children''s Association, the National Federation of teachers and parents, and various environmental and animal protection organizations. But they often do not protest against Hollywood films themselves.
Although Michael arted is old, his eyes are still sharp. Religious and socio political issues have always been the hot topics in Hollywood. If the trade union just watches the Catholic Church intervene, then next time, maybe all the cats and dogs will jump out, and the directors will not have to make films to deal with these troubles.
This can''t be filmed, and that can''t be filmed. How can directors work normally?
Seeing that Michael arted was thinking, bill rossis didn''t say much. After the remarks of Archbishop Marcos Costello were put on TV, they immediately aroused the attention of public opinion. Relevant topics can be seen everywhere, whether in the media or on the Internet.
The man who attacked Murphy jumped out and put on a fire, which made the film "Diego rose" more popular.
It is no exaggeration to say that their series of actions and plans have basically achieved the expected goal.
As for Hollywood''s major trade unions, they have also expressed their support for Hollywood''s freedom of film making. Bill rossis can fully imagine how Michael arted will react. After all, this is a liberal Hollywood, not a Catholic northeast in the United States.
Michael arted sat on the sofa and fell into silence for a short time. The Catholic Church attacked Hollywood not once or twice. When the Da Vinci Code was released, Lang Howard and Dan Brown attracted a lot of criticism from the Catholic Church, but those two were not Murphy Stanton. They chose silence to deal with it, and the incident would not happen in the end It''s a good idea.
But then, John Patrick Stanley was blacklisted by the Catholic Church because of a child abuse mystery, and was scolded by the Catholic media.
As for the following films, such as angels and demons, the Catholic Church is always grumbling, which is really annoying.
Again and again, Michael arted has been through it.
His eyes are sharper and sharper. It''s not in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Now Hollywood is full of free creation atmosphere. When is it the turn of Catholic bullying?
It''s true that in the past Catholicism carried out moral censorship on Hollywood, but what it brought was not progress, but all kinds of deadly restrictions. On the contrary, in the past 40 years when Catholic moral restrictions were broken, Hollywood films have developed rapidly and have dominated the world film market!
What do they want to do? Another ethical review of Hollywood? Can you reverse Hollywood movies?
Michael atdehoe''s stand up, this situation has intensified in recent years, the director union can not allow other forces to interfere in the work of Hollywood directors.
He paced back and forth a few steps and said, "bill, I''ll make a proposal to the Council to re recruit Murphy Stanton as a member of the directors'' Union. You can ask him to submit an application when you go back. Other things will be discussed when he becomes a member of the directors'' Union."
"All right!" Bill rosis also stood up. "Murphy had been looking forward to returning to the directing Union for a long time."
It is clear that Michael arted has expressed his support for Murphy.
"Then we''ll keep in touch." "Good bye, Michael rosis," he said
Michael arted nodded. "Goodbye."
Seeing off bill Rossi, Michael arted picked up his cell phone and made more than ten phone calls at a time, communicating with many permanent members of the director''s Union Council on this matter.
As for whether the plots of those films involving the Catholic Church are based on facts, no matter Michael arted or other members of the Council, they have no question at all. In their minds, what subject matter and content Hollywood makes is Hollywood''s freedom. Outsiders'' dissatisfaction can be solved through legal channels, but random interference is an infringement on him Your freedom and power!
After receiving a call from Bill rosis, Murphy immediately prepared the relevant materials and personally sent them to the directors'' Union. If there is no big accident, he will become a member of the directors'' Union again before and after the announcement of the Oscar nomination list.The spokesmen of the directors'' Union, the writers'' Union and the producers'' Union, as well as several other trade union organizations, were all on Murphy''s side when asked by the media about the series of disputes between Catholicism and the film Diego Ross.
Looking at the whole Hollywood film circle, except for a few Catholics who said that directors should be more cautious when choosing religion, most of the people who were asked about it expressed more or less their support for "Diego Ross".
In this circle where liberalism is more and more rampant, when the outside forces touch the freedom that the insiders flaunt and regard as a forbidden area, it is almost inevitable to cause a rebound.
Even though Hollywood and Catholicism once had a deep connection, in today''s era, the situation is completely different.
It is precisely because Murphy has a deep understanding of this that she dares to implement such a plan.
In 1929, five Catholics, mainly Martin quikley, a Catholic publisher, and Daniel Lauder, a Jesuit, drafted a self regulatory production regulation for the film industry, which aims to restrict the production of films morally. In 1930, the draft was completely accepted by the film industry giants and implemented by the "Hayes office". This document is the film production code that later ruled Hollywood for nearly 30 years.
For Hollywood at that time, "Hayes code" was a means of self-regulation that could not only quell the tide of many religious organizations boycotting films, but also avoid the intervention of the police or the government in the film industry.
The "code" defines the film as "public entertainment", but this kind of entertainment bears "special moral responsibility", because it is different from any other means of entertainment or communication - a universal charm that can transcend the boundaries of race or class and various social or political barriers, so that everyone loves to watch it.
It is for this reason that film makers can not enjoy the same freedom of expression as stage dramatists, novelists or newspaper editors. As a moral drama of the 20th century, films should tell the public how to live a regular life.
In the summer of 1933, the Archbishop of Philadelphia claimed that the films released in his parish "crossed the Catholic moral code" and called on all believers to boycott these films. In the same year, the Catholic forces in Chicago also joined the ranks of denouncers, and 500000 female Catholics also jointly launched the so-called "Jihad" against Hollywood.
In 1934, the Catholic moral Union, an American church organization, was founded. Its main duty was to examine the moral content of Hollywood films, to issue to Hayes'' office a list of films that should be completely banned or re examined, and to label "condemnation" on films that dare to "cross" the Catholic moral code. The Union even mobilized millions of Catholics to criticize them "Condemnation" films boycotted, and even set up pickets in front of the cinema to prevent people from entering.
In order to ensure that Catholics abide by the church''s instructions in the coalition action against the film, the bishop of Cincinnati, Mike Nicholas, even drafted an oath for the "moral union".
Since then, Catholics all over the country have to take an oath under the leadership of the priest at mass, admit that the film is "a serious harm to teenagers, family life, the country and religion", and promise God not to watch the film which is regarded as "evil and unhealthy" by the church.
In addition to this oral oath, many Catholic churches also require believers to sign a formal pledge document. In just a few weeks, more than one million people in Chicago and Boston alone took an anti film oath.
This period can be said to be the most serious period when Hollywood was interfered by the Catholic Church, and lasted until the late 1940s and early 1950s after the end of World War II.
But in the late 1940s, the Catholic Church''s influence on Hollywood was again and again strongly shaken. In the face of the disasters brought about by World War II, the "warm world" created on the screen according to the Catholic moral concept was more and more unacceptable to the American audience, not to mention the overseas audience who suffered from the war.
From the early 1950s, the great influence of Catholicism on Hollywood began to collapse. The change of American social thought, especially the destructive influence of World War II on traditional ideas, seriously weakened the social influence of the church, and made the moral precepts of production rules seem ridiculous in the eyes of contemporary people.
In the sixties and seventies, with the rise of anti traditional movements such as hippies, the influence of Catholicism on Hollywood has weakened to a dispensable situation. In the new century, Hollywood can no longer tolerate the interference of Catholicism.
For example, Murphy personally experienced the adaptation of the Da Vinci Code from Dan Brown''s novel of the same name a few years ago, which is full of Catholic content, many of which subvert the theoretical basis of Catholic propaganda. We can imagine how much the Catholic Church will obstruct the film, but the film not only has no abortion, but also becomes one of the biggest selling films of that year.
It''s not just Hollywood that has changed. It''s North American audiences, even some Catholic audiences, that have changed.