The Storyteller's Mission

@ImKingGinger This article is excellent. My only push back is that I don’t think we are being intentionally held back. I just don’t think Christians are good enough at the craft.

The Truth About Why Christian Movies are So Bad. I’ve spent the last four years building a streaming platform and talking to people at the very top of the faith-based entertainment industry. Studio heads. Distributors. Producers. Investors. And I’ve come to a conclusion that I think is going to make a lot of people uncomfortable. Christian movies are bad on purpose. The talent is out there. I’ve met them. I’ve sat with them at 3am over whiskey and cigars listening to pitches that should have been picked up immediately. So that left a question that any Christian filmmaker could quickly answer. If the talent is there, why is everything so mediocre? It starts with an avatar named Bookstore Betty. I’m not making that up. When the faith-based film industry was being built out, it was done in partnership with Christian bookstore executives. They weren’t asking “how do we make great cinema.” They were asking “who walks into our stores and how do we sell them a movie the same way we sell them a devotional.” The target was a 35 year old woman. The tone, the casting, the conflict resolution, the soft lighting, all of it was reverse-engineered to appeal to Betty. Not to a general audience. Not to men. Not to teenagers. Just Betty. Every major Christian film you can think of relies on distribution deals with secular studios. The same studios that blacklisted almost everyone who worked on The Passion of the Christ and refused to distribute Kirk Cameron's Pro Life movie. Think about that. Passion made over $600 million on a $30 million budget. The most obvious play would have been to duplicate that movie hundreds of times like it was the MCU. But instead of greenlighting more, Hollywood blacklisted the people involved. So what did they do instead? They set up a system where they get to be the gatekeepers. They only greenlight the safest, most formulaic, most non-threatening stuff possible. Because if Christian films ever started consistently competing with mainstream entertainment, those studios would have a real problem. So they make sure that never happens. And the church helps them do it. Christian movies don’t need word of mouth. They don’t need to be good. They need pastors to bulk-buy tickets. You make a movie with a “message,” market it to churches, and pastors subsidize the whole thing by buying hundreds of tickets to hand out on Sunday. You don’t have to compete in a fair market when your distribution model is guilt-driven generosity. And the funding is even more rigged. Most of these films are funded through Donor Advised Funds, which means donors get a tax write-off for their “investment” regardless of whether the movie makes a dollar. There’s no market pressure to make something good. The donors got their deduction. The studio got their budget. And Betty got another movie about a woman who finds a journal in the attic. What would happen if someone actually came along and made faith-based content that created pop culture instead of reacting to it? I think it would instantly expose how low-effort the current industry is. It would be like when Uber showed up and embarrassed the taxi industry overnight. The monopoly only survives because nobody has disrupted it yet. The talent is there. The audience is there. The only thing missing is capital that wants disruption instead of a tax write-off.

My recent Substack article about the film sinners just made the news. Check out the news article here: nationaltoday.com/us/il/chicago/…

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How to Write Righteous Anger in Fiction (Without Turning Your Hero Into a Villain) from @ZenaDellLowe on @EdieMelson bit.ly/4pTY8YE #writing #writingtips

Responsibility for the deliberately engineered chaos is on Walz and Frey. None of this happens in cities where cooperation and following the law exists. Debating this with agitators is a waste of your time, for this is exactly that they desire. Every tragedy is a win.

🚨BREAKING: Elon Musk reveals the Minneapolis riots are being funded by back-door federal dollars!

How to Write Righteous Anger in Fiction (Without Turning Your Hero Into a Villain) from @ZenaDellLowe on @EdieMelson bit.ly/4pTY8YE #writing #writingtips

UNREAL. ChatGPT will create images of a gay Jesus, but will NOT generate a similar picture of Mohammad. ChatGPT ADMITS it's a double standard, not based on fairness but to "minimize harm" and avoid "high-risk" content. When asked what the risk was, Chat GPT says it won't make pictures of a gay Mohammad because it's afraid that Muslims will retaliate with real world VIOLENCE.

🚨 Here is the full 42 minutes of my crew and I exposing Minnesota fraud, this might be my most important work yet. We uncovered over $110,000,000 in ONE day. Like it and share it around like wildfire! Its time to hold these corrupt politicians and fraudsters accountable We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening, the fraud must be stopped.

🚨NEW: John Fetterman *STUNS* CNN's Dana Bash by telling her how Left crueler than Right🚨 FETTERMAN: "The Right would say really rough things and names ... but on the Left, it was like they want me to die or that 'We're cheering for your next stroke' ... they even have a gif where they have a stroke in your head." BASH: "Oh my gosh!" @DailyCaller

I actually believe that Schiff will do jail time.

The next time someone tells you it’s a “both sides” issue, show them this….

This just shows how the media pushes their race agenda..

This woman is so brilliant. I can’t like her enough.

Great work karoline Leavitt.!!!

Did you hear about this video that was just banned on TikTok? I didn’t believe it until I saw it - Tulsi Gabbard

So many people need to hear this speech, Charlie your so wise beyond your years. Islam will suffocate the US, just as it's doing worldwide.

Dammmmmmmn

TREASON 🚨 Tulsi has uncovered documents that were hidden for ten years, showing Obama doctored the intel to make it look like Putin and Trump stole the 2016 election Obama ordered Brennan to create a fake assessment ALL ROADS LEAD DIRECTLY TO OBAMA

Finally he sees the light