Holy Shoot! This stuff SELLS!

This is hilarious.

On the one hand, it could be a good thing, sure. But on the other hand, it's like Christians are this strange and unknowable "other". It's like a Doonesbury cartoon with one incredulous character exclaiming "Did you know that people in Kansas DON'T sacrifice goats? Really, I was shocked!" (Remember when Doonesbury was funny?) (Hush, Kevin.)

Remember during the last Presidential election when the Democrats discovered that faith "sells"? The press covered it with the same unknowing curiosity. "Wow! Who knew? Seriously?" Howard Dean was particularly funny (and brazen). (I wish I still had the story.) Hillary Clinton is smart enough not to talk about it as a tactic (in public).

As Hollywood becomes more and more insular, it amazes me the things that they just don't know, and have never experienced. It's this tiny little knot of a community that doesn't know anything outside of themselves. (The press is in much the same sinking boat.)

I've seen discussions about one of the differences between Original Star Trek (YES it all comes back to Star Trek) and new stuff is that most of the cast and crew of TOS had actually been IN the military! James Doohan was a war hero! Even that great shining liberal idealist Gene Roddenberry flew a B-17 and bombed the snot out of the Japanese. Now on Battlestar Galactica (it also comes back to BSG) Ron Moore had aspirations of a naval career and served in ROTC. For Hollywood these days, that's as good as having been CO of the Nimitz! (I'd have said Reagan, but she hasn't launched yet, has she?)

Anyway, my point is that Hollywood these days learns how to make movies by watching movies. And watching movies of that. And talking to people who made those movies.

And then writing blogs about it.