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...MIKE?S PASSION, MEL?S RESURRECTION
...plans of Mike and his men, and the rest of the bury-Bush contingent, went wrong. A movie can?t change events and attitudes; it reflects them. And that can be seen by the relative impact of the two big out-of-nowhere hits of 2004: ?Fahrenheit? and ?The Passion of the Christ...
...Both movies were astonishingly successful at the box office. The worldwide gross of ?Fahrenheit? was more than 36 million times its $6 million budget (yikes! someone?s getting rich off this movie!), whereas ?The Passion? took in some 20 million times its $30 million budget (Mel was already rich). But for our purposes, the salient stats are North American revenue. ?Fahrenheit?: just over $119 million. ?The Passion?: just over $370 million - more than three times as much - to rank ninth on the domestic list of all-time money earners. (To be sure, constantly rising ticket prices skew this list. Interestingly...
...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...