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ATA: Hollywood Sermonizing vs. Good Storytelling

The Political Orphanage

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The Echo Chamber: A Wake Up Call to Story Tellers

Hollywood has been picking on the left side of the political spectrum for most of this episode largely because that's where Hollywood lies. If you go back to the 50s, the Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston and Ben Hur, are good films. And they both have these very overt religious themes to them. But it's a good film. They didn't set out to go, how could we teach people that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior? I know. Let's get Ben Hur to be in a chariot or something. We're like a positive, I don't know we call it conservative, I guess Christian of filmmaking.

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