Thank you!
There is a movie that I want very much to watch. It is titled "Creation" and it is about the life of Charles Darwin. The movie is produced in the UK and it is quite popular across the pond.
I would love very much to see this latest movie about Charles Darwin.
But it won't be coming to a theater near you in the USA.
And why? Because it has been deemed too controversial!
Here is a web site article at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... erica.html
Here's another article at:Charles Darwin film 'too controversial for religious America'
A British film about Charles Darwin has failed to find a US distributor because his theory of evolution is too controversial for American audiences, according to its producer.
By Anita Singh, Showbusiness Editor
Published: 4:53PM BST 11 Sep 2009
Creation, starring Paul Bettany, details Darwin's "struggle between faith and reason" as he wrote On The Origin of Species. It depicts him as a man who loses faith in God following the death of his beloved 10-year-old daughter, Annie.
he film was chosen to open the Toronto Film Festival and has its British premiere on Sunday. It has been sold in almost every territory around the world, from Australia to Scandinavia.
However, US distributors have resolutely passed on a film which will prove hugely divisive in a country where, according to a Gallup poll conducted in February, only 39 per cent of Americans believe in the theory of evolution.
Movieguide.org, an influential site which reviews films from a Christian perspective, described Darwin as the father of eugenics and denounced him as "a racist, a bigot and an 1800s naturalist whose legacy is mass murder". His "half-baked theory" directly influenced Adolf Hitler and led to "atrocities, crimes against humanity, cloning and genetic engineering", the site stated.
The film has sparked fierce debate on US Christian websites, with a typical comment dismissing evolution as "a silly theory with a serious lack of evidence to support it despite over a century of trying".
Jeremy Thomas, the Oscar-winning producer of Creation, said he was astonished that such attitudes exist 150 years after On The Origin of Species was published.
"That's what we're up against. In 2009. It's amazing," he said.
The film has no distributor in America. It has got a deal everywhere else in the world but in the US, and it's because of what the film is about. People have been saying this is the best film they've seen all year, yet nobody in the US has picked it up.
It is unbelievable to us that this is still a really hot potato in America. There's still a great belief that He made the world in six days. It's quite difficult for we in the UK to imagine religion in America. We live in a country which is no longer so religious. But in the US, outside of New York and LA, religion rules.
Charles Darwin is, I suppose, the hero of the film. But we tried to make the film in a very even-handed way. Darwin wasn't saying 'kill all religion', he never said such a thing, but he is a totem for people.
Creation was developed by BBC Films and the UK Film Council, and stars Bettany's real-life wife Jennifer Connelly as Darwin's deeply religious wife, Emma. It is based on the book, Annie's Box, by Darwin's great-great-grandson, Randal Keynes, and portrays the naturalist as a family man tormented by the death in 1851 of Annie, his favourite child. She is played in the film by 10-year-old newcomer Martha West, the daughter of The Wire star Dominic West.
Early reviews have raved about the film. The Hollywood Reporter said: "It would be a great shame if those with religious convictions spurned the film out of hand as they will find it even-handed and wise.
Mr Thomas, whose previous films include The Last Emperor and Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, said he hoped the reviews would help to secure a distributor. In the UK, special screenings have been set up for Christian groups.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/lu ... n-america/
And here's another articleLucy Jones
Lucy Jones is a Content Editor for the Telegraph Comment desk. She blogs about popular culture, particularly music, film and celebrity. She also writes music reviews.
Why Creation, the new Charles Darwin movie, needs to be shown in America
By Lucy Jones Film Last updated: September 16th, 2009
re you bored of Darwin coverage yet? Well if you are, and you live in the US, youâ??ll be glad to know that the latest celebration of the scientistâ??s life to coincide with the 200th anniversary of his birth, wonâ??t be coming to a cinema near you.
Creation, a film about the evolution of On the Origin of Species, is a period drama which will be released in Britain next week. The producers have so far been unable to secure a distribution deal in America. Why? For fear of offending creationists.
Jeremy Thomas, the producer of Creation said:
You only have to look at a book review posted last week on the popular Christian website movieguide.org to see why distributors would be reluctant to buy a film that depicts Darwin as a loving husband, a tactile father and a man glowing with integrity. Dr Ted Baehr writes: â??Darwinâ??s Racists - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow exposes the real Charles Darwin: a racist, a bigot and 1800â??s naturalist whose legacy is mass murderâ?.It is unbelievable to us that this is still a really hot potato in America. Thereâ??s still a great belief that He made the world in six days. Itâ??s quite difficult for we in the UK to imagine religion in America. We live in a country which is no longer so religious. But in the US, outside of New York and LA, religion rules.
And creationists are no fringe sect of American society. A Gallup Poll found earlier this year that only 39 percent of Americans say they â??believe in the theory of evolutionâ?. Unbelievable isnâ??t it? But you can see why distributors wouldnâ??t want to offend almost half of the United States.
So before watching the film the other day, I expected it to be controversial, a bit hammy and with perhaps a dollop of anti-Christian sentiment. Instead, I walked away with a head choc-full of reasons why America need to distribute it.
Firstly, Darwinâ??s theory is not new. Itâ??s been around since 1859. Thatâ??s 150 years. It is not shocking, nor is it threatening to the Christian faith - even if itâ??s brought to life with sideburns, empire line dresses and the melodramatic line, â??Youâ??ve killed God, Sir.â?
Secondly, the film is much more complex and delicate than a gauche serving up of the science versus religion debate. Despite the fact itâ??s clear in the film that Darwin loses his faith, the ending is ambiguous. Mrs Darwin, who remains a strongly convicted Christian throughout the film, is the person who gives the seal of approval to the book, packages it up and addresses it for her husband to send off to the publishers. Faith and evolution can stand side by side, the film tells us. The earliest instance of theistic evolution perhaps?
Thirdly, there are stunning passages that celebrate the natural world and its laws: the squelching barnacle flesh, shining in its ugly glory; the creaking music of a woodland before a fox strikes the neck of a rabbit; the grubs and mites that burrow through the corpse of a baby sparrow. Itâ??s not Disneyfied; itâ??s truthful.
And finally, the casting is utterly brilliant. Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly â?? married off screen and on â?? bring an intimacy and chemistry to the screen that is effortlessly powerful. As Bettany said: â??Thereâ??s a slight absentminded closeness that you see between Jennifer and I in the movie which is really, really usefulâ?. And when you hear that the actor lost his brother when he was a teenager, the scenes where he tries to cope with the death of a daughter are made all the more poignant.
What a pity that this beautiful film, a tonic to the hysteria of the far side of the Creationist sect and the militant atheists, is being passed over. It is reductive and stupid of US distributors to let it go, especially when other films like Expelled, Antichrist and Religulous have been successfully released. Will the US close its eyes and pander to the creationist sect forever?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film ... ailer.html
Yeah! But it won't be released in USA cinemas anytime soon! It will probably NEVER come to America.Creation the movie: world exclusive trailer
This is the exclusive trailer for Creation, which tells the story of Charles Darwinâ??s struggle between faith and reason.
Published: 3:22PM BST 11 Jun 2009
The film is based on the book â??Annieâ??s Box:: Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolutionâ?? by British conservationist and author and a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin, Randal Keynes. It explores the relationship between Darwin and his daughter Annie whose early death deeply affected him and his views on religion.
Charles Darwin and his wife are played by husband and wife duo Paul Bettany & Jennifer Connelly, in this film which brings to light the little-known private life of the scientist explorer.
The film portrays Darwin as a doting husband and father, torn between his love for his deeply religious wife and his own growing belief in evolutionary theory, which he would later print in his book On the Origin of the Species.
Writer Randal Keynes was a production consultant for the film.
Creation will be released in UK cinemas this September.
We are losing our freedoms here in the US of fuckin' A!!!
I knew this was coming many years ago when I was just a kid in the 5th grade.
Yeah, I know! I have mentioned this several times before in these forums.
Anyway . . . . . . .
Back then, I had this teacher who was really Gung Ho when it came to sports. He preferred teaching PE over teaching science, math, or reading skills. I was lousy at sports due to a knee injury at the age of 4 which was the result of a car accident, so I could not run like the other kids, and most of the time, I walked with a limp.
My 5th grade teacher liked to humiliate me in the gym in front of all the other kids. One day he punched me in the stomach as hard as he could with a basketball, and I was doubled over in pain, and it seemed like an eternity before I could breath again.
Then there was another time when our class went to the school library. The other kids were allowed to check out any book they wanted. But I was not. There was an Astronomy book that I wanted. He would not allow me to check it out.
When I asked him why he allowed all the other kids to check out any book they wanted, and why I was not, we got into an argument and he dragged me out into the hallway, then he grabbed me by the shoulders and pushed me back, bashing my head against the corner of the concrete block wall. I felt dizzy almost like being drunk.
The following year, that teacher was fired and could not get a teaching job anywhere else. But as for me, I had headaches and dizzy spells that gradually went away as I got much older in my 20s.
My 5th grade teacher was one of them religious fundamentalists and a sports fanatic.
Now today, I feel like I'm still getting my head bashed against the wall by my own country.
I WANT TO SEE THAT MOVIE DAMN IT!!!
BUT NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
I CAN'T SEE THAT MOVIE BECAUSE I'M A US CITIZEN WITH NO RIGHTS ANYMORE!!!
To all the war veterans who fought for our freedom, and to all the brave soldiers who died fighting for this country, I'm sorry to say, it was all for nothing!
I was all for naught! Zip! Nada! Zilch! ZERO! The big goose egg! 0
If I could afford to travel, I would go to Brain-Washington D fuckin' C and in front of the Washington Monument, I would burn the flag!
Yes, there are some people out there who would say that I should be grateful to my dear ol' Uncle Sam for giving me an SSI disability check, and I get Home Health Care, food stamps, and Meals On Wheels.
OK! Yeah! Thank you Uncle Sam for all that.
But if I had gone to better schools where I could have gotten a decent education, and had not been beaten and bullied around resulting in an emotional and mental breakdown, and had not spent a few weeks in a nut-house where I was beaten some more and raped, then, I would not be all mentally and emotionally fucked up in the head, and then, I would not need SSI disability in the first place.
When I was a kid, I was not allowed to read Astronomy books.
Now that I'm an adult, going to be 58 on September 30, I'm still not allowed to see what I want to see. I will not be able to see this latest movie about the life of Charles Darwin.
Not unless I renounce my citizenship and move to another country where I can see the movie.
So, I'm still getting bullied around. I'm still getting raped!
No, not physically.
I'm getting mind-fucked!!!
Yeah! Thank you Uncle Sam!
I'm fat and sassy! I love to sing & dance & stomp my feet & really rock your world!
