Movies are a kind of liturgy, no? Atlanta and all of Georgia, to include many movies made in Savannah, are Hollywood East. Atlanta has many movie studios and Atlanta’s Fort McPherson where I lived in the late 1950’s is now a humongous movie studio owned by Tyler Perry.
Disney Studios made a remake of “That Darn Cat” when I was pastor in Augusta in the 1990’s. Downtown Augusta was depicted as Boston! That was really a movie fantasy to say the least!
And Clint Eastwood's movie "The Mule" was filmed in Augusta, two blocks from my former parish where Jesus still resides but let's praise Clint. I do like him and have liked him since he was on Rawhide and guest appeared on Mr. Ed and that was a particularly funny episode.
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Father,
I love cinema. I think it is the great art form of the 20th Century. Unfortunately, we get way too little art and way too much schlock and I think part of that is because too many of us get seduced into the universe of fandom.
There is nothing more sickening than watching otherwise sensible people start acting ridiculous because they are in the presence of a film star. Well, yes, actually ALMOST as ridiculous is the sound of people bragging about how a movie scene was once shot somewhere near their home.
When I lived somewhere else, a popular movie had been shot in that town at several locations. One particular restaurant--not a very good one I later found out (the hard way)--had flyers posted all over their restaurant reminding patrons that a particular scene from that movie had been shot on location right there.
WHO THE &%$#@ cares? "Wow! I'M standing in the same room where...FILL IN THE BLANK...stood!" Yeah, the same man or woman who has been married four times, has been arrested for (name the charge here) has been in rehab twice and beat up a reporter for taking his picture.
Don't get seduced by the hooplah, Father. Good films are a wonder to behold. The film industry and its herd...not so much.
I might also add that if you really ARE interested in good films, you're probably not going to find any at the local theater. Look to the past.
Well, it is fun to see familiar places where you live or lived in movies. We need a little fun. But yes, my favorite movie network is TCM although recently that are showing “classic” movies made in the 90’s and well into the 2000’s and unedited so you see and hear things which were only implied in truly classic movies until the late 50’s or early 60’s.
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