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...recent essay “Who is that mad black woman,” Roger Ebert reports that his one-star review of Diary elicited more angry correspondence than any other film he has ever reviewed—including Fahrenheit 9/11 and The Passion of the Christ combined...
...Both ?The Passion? and ?Fahrenheit? benefitted from the curiosity factor, once media hype and early box office numbers attracted audiences beyond the movies? cores. But the core was important. Conservative Christians were enormously important in making ?The Passion? the hit it was. They got the faithful to the theaters. And in November, the same churches and social groups got the faithful to the polls...
...From different sides, ?Fahrenheit? and ?The Passion? proved that, in an era of depressingly trivial pop culture, movies can matter. I hope official Hollywood gets the message about these two message movies. Let?s see if the Motion Picture Academy takes Moore?s dare - since, with his usual hellacious chutzpah, he refused to submit it in the documentary category - and nominates it for Best Picture. In fact, if Academy members have even a pair of cojones among them, they?ll nominate both ?Fahrenheit? ?The Passion? for Best Picture of 2004. Think of it: the outraged Left vs. the religious Right...
...guesses. One: ?Fahrenheit? will be a Best Picture finalist. Hollywood was Kerry Country; it loves a liberal king and, even more, a kingmaker. Two: no ?Passion,? no way. The reflexively liberal Hollywood elders hated the movie (usually without seeing it) before it opened - that has to be why they refused to distribute it - and they hated it more when it became an indie blockbuster. So Gibson has as much chance of getting a top nomination from the Academy as Moore did of getting a ?Fahrenheit? screening at the White House...
...Liberals, who dared to dream before election day, turned grouchy the day after. But they know that the message of ?Fahrenheit 9/11? and its agit-doc brethren didn?t go stale on Nov. 3. With Karl Rove fully validated as the King-maker - he got his man the popular vote this time - ?Bush?s Brain? is more relevant than before. Moore has been planning a documentary on health care, which should be ever more timely as the Administration pushes its privatization angle on Social Security. Of course Moore and his fellow Savonarolas will once again be preaching to the choir...