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Thursday, September 29, 2005

"a forum for conservative thought on film"

i happened across an interesting site recently: libertas, which promotes itself as "a forum for conservative thought on film". it's spearheaded by writer/director Jason Apuzzo, who has a PhD in Germanic literature among his accomplishments. have any of the other nuts come across this site before? it's quite interesting. the first entry of discussion today is a dialogue between NY Times film critic A.O. Scott and Apuzzo. take for instance, this comment regarding the marketing to conservatives taking place:
As you seem to acknowledge, we’re probably at a very early stage of this. An example that comes to mind: this summer’s The Island. A good friend of ours who works routinely with Michael Bay advised Bay to aggressively market the film to conservative audiences, due to the film’s ‘pro-life’ implications. Bay apparently did not take the idea seriously until it was too late - although it’s unclear whether Dreamworks would’ve gone along with that kind of thing, anyhow. The point being that the conservative sensibility - or whatever we’re calling this - is not something routinely factored into studio thinking in the same way that, say, studios aggressively cater to comic book fans. Conservatives are not a ‘demographic’ or ‘niche’ market that the studios seem particularly interested in, a few recent films notwithstanding. There is obviously some movement here with respect to Christian audiences, but that only represents the tip of the iceberg with respect to the overall conservative community.

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