Yoda's new movie

PJMedia reports that George Lucas had to finance another movie with his own money...because the movie studios thought it would be hard to sell especially overseas.



Yeah, heroic African Americans fighting fascism won't sell overseas, they say...
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But they are willing to fill our TV and movie screens here in Asia with violent African American drug dealer movies and MTV is full of African American sluts and gang members gyrating in an R rated fashion. So which part of the movie did they think wouldn't sell?

Is the problem that Hollywood thinks they can't sell a movie overseas if there are "too many blacks" in the movie (as opposed to a token black or a black superstar but mainly white actors?).Or is the problem that the film is pro USA?

Sheesh...Even movies about the war in China has to have a "white" hero...and books and movies made in the US about Africa are even worse (except for the miniseries "roots"),,,



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unrelated film story:

Martin Scorsese will be directing a movie on Endo's Noble prize winning novel "Silence".

Actually, I have several books by Endo, but I don't like "Silence" (Which is mainly about the Jesuit missionaries). I prefer the book "the Samurai" or some of his short stories from the Japanese point of view, including the Japanese reason for embracing Christianity. Check out the BrothersJudd review of the Book... which includes this quotation:

"We had to become Christians ourselves." The samurai stared at the ground in embarrassment. "We weren't sincere about it, but..."

"You still don't believe in it?"

"No. We did it for the sake of our mission. And what about you? Do you actually believe in that man called Jesus?"

"Yes, I do. I told you that before. But the Jesus I believe in is not the one preached by the Church or the padres. I cannot ally myself with the padres who invoke the name of the Lord when they burn the altars of the Indians, and drive them from their villages, claiming that they do it in order to spread the Lord's word."

"How can you revere such a miserable, wretched fellow? How can you worship someone so ugly and emaciated? I can't understand it..."

For the first time the samurai asked the question in earnest. Nishi gazed up at the renegade monk from a crouched position, waiting to hear his reply. From the swamp they could hear the strange voices of women doing their washing.

"In the old days," the man nodded, "I had the same doubts. But I can believe in Him now because the life He lived in this world was more wretched than any other man's. Because he was ugly and emaciated. He knew all there was to know about the sorrows of the world. He could not close His eyes to the grief and agony of mankind. That is what made Him emaciated and ugly. Had He lived an exalted and powerful life beyond our grasp, I would not feel like this about Him."

A God/man who knows suffering...a God who has compassion on the most miserable folks in life because as a man he lived it.

Endo said that Japan would only embrace a Jesus of compassion, not the exalted Jesus of the Jesuits...
and of course, that is why 8 million Pinoys risked a death from terrorist attack to attend the Black Nazarene celebration this week...