This video’s a little long (9 minutes), but it’s solid gold!
First Ty Smith (“Modern Renaissance Man”); then Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green; and then Denzel Washington–all three serving up a piping hot bowl of truth. Three Davids cutting down the Far Left nooze media’s Goliath.
No one has ever deserved this pie in the face more than our so-called news media. Oh, do they get it but good! Every word hits home.
We’ve been waiting for this–and it’s worth it.
Wow! That’s the same Hannibal I have on my Hannibal T-shirt. I’d love to see Denzel bring it to life.
So Netflix is making a biopic about Hannibal, the Carthaginian general who very nearly conquered Rome… with Denzel Washington in the title role. And the Tunisians are good and cheesed off over it (https://www.foxnews.com/media/casting-denzel-washington-hannibal-sparks-racial-controversy-historical-error).
Depicting Hannibal as “a black African,” Tunisian media types say, is “historically inaccurate.” Oh, horrors–quick, I need a seat! Who would have ever imagined movies could be historically inaccurate? I feel faint…
[Hours later] Tunis, it’s Denzel Washington–he’s a star. He earned it. You should be calling for three cheers. The world’s kind of short on Carthaginian actors, anyway. I’d be honored if Denzel wanted to play me! (Anytime you want, man!)
I remember way back when James Earl Jones played King Lear on Broadway. That he was black did not matter. No one cared! It was James Earl Jones and he was great. But today headline writers call it “race-swapping” and it makes some people mad.
Grow up!
Work has lately stalled on The Witch Box, mostly because I have a major artistic challenge looming up in front of me and I haven’t been shown the way to the top.
So we watched a movie yesterday, Deja Vu (2006), starring Denzel Washington and Jim Caviezel–and holy cow! Half an hour into it, I realized Denzel was up against the same kind of dangerous problem confronting the characters in my book. Not exactly the same, of course–but Obst and Helki would be a lot better equipped to deal with it if they could see this movie.
Suddenly I was pumped to get back to writing the book. What would medieval people do if they were given powerful, cutting-edge 21st century technology–with no instructions as to how it worked, how to use it, what it could do, what to be careful not to do, and so on?
I don’t want to spoil the movie for you, and I certainly don’t want to spoil the book. This was one of those good movies that the critics didn’t like, possibly because there was a strong Christian slant to it. It’s a thriller that fires up your imagination. And I’d like to achieve the same effect with my book.
Well, I kept asking and asking the Lord to guide me in the writing of this book–and along comes this movie yesterday. Coincidence or Providence?
As far as I’m concerned, that’s an easy one to answer.
Well–! Denzel Washington is going to play me in a movie!
Dig this plot. An aging fantasy writer–that would be me–comes out of semi-retirement (writers never really retire, we can’t afford it) to take on El Borracho, the most ruthless, fiendish, unpleasant drug lord in all of… I think it’s Kazakhstan, but bear with me, I’ve only read the screenplay once… to avenge the murder of his second cousin’s nephew’s brother-in-law. Brushing up on his jumpin’, spinnin’ kicks, he also invents a whole new martial art, involving boxes of Kleenex tissues, that no one has ever seen before. That’s what gives him the edge!
Written by Violet Crepuscular, the working title is Murder My Second Cousin’s Nephew’s Brother-in-Law, Will You? It has a certain ring do it!
Filmed entirely in my front yard so I can sit there and be a technical adviser, we’re still rounding up a supporting cast. A US president known only as “The Big Guy,” in cahoots with El Borracho, will be played by a large stick insect that has worn out its welcome at the San Diego Zoo. We’re looking for big-name actors to play assorted bad guys, and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is on board to play the Russian honcho, Biff Putin. We’ll also feature some really great cat videos.
It’s going to be directed by a guy who did some kind of work on a Godfather movie that never made it to the theaters, but it wasn’t his fault and besides which, he works cheap.
That’s all I can tell you for now. The rest is shrouded in secrecy!