Bizarre-ancient-movie news of the day, two.
Entertainment Weekly has posted sneak peeks of a dozen movies coming out later this year, including this blurb on Year One:
Comedy legend Harold Ramis (Caddyshack, Groundhog Day) first started noodling with the idea of setting a comedy in the ancient world back in, well, pretty much the Stone Age. ''I did an improv a long time ago with Bill Murray and John Belushi, where Bill was a Cro-Magnon man and Belushi was a Neanderthal,'' Ramis says. ''Putting a modern sensibility in an ancient context always seemed very funny to me.'' Flash forward approximately one eon and the Judd Apatow-produced Year One pairs Jack Black and Michael Cera as Zed and Oh, hunter-gatherers who are banished from their village and wander through scenes from the Old Testament, encountering the likes of Cain and Abel (David Cross and Paul Rudd) and Abraham (Hank Azaria). Asked if he expects the film's religious satire to offend, Ramis laughs: ''I hope so!''The film is currently set to come out June 19.
posted by Peter T Chattaway at 11:48 PM
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I can't wait to see this film! God bless ya, Mr. Ramis, no pun intended! Here's my two bits, and if you're interested and have the time, take a peek at my site.
kurtniece.com
I believe it's time to dialog on the role of religion in the 21st century. There's a basic incongruity. Fundamentalist belief systems have no place in an enlightened, technological, literate culture. It's my contention that religious fundamentalism is both an elephant in the living room and a bull in the china shop. Daily, we hear of an egregious act perpetrated for the sake some inflexible religious conviction, yet we as a society tend to ignore the root cause: intolerance. I honestly feel it's time to divest the notion that inflexible dogma is tolerable, for in addition to being a bull and an elephant, religious dogma is also a sacred cow. I don't believe that God ever expected "faith" to be the suspension of reason.
“The fear mongers were gone. Those who had abused their faith to hammer others, to wage war, to profit, to support and to further prejudice were all gone, and in their wake a peace descended on the earth…”
The Breath of Rapture, copyright 2008
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