Abducting the divine in Hollywood
By Michael Moriarty
web posted March 20, 2006
My concern started with the announcement that Tom Hanks, a divine artist, without question, was starring in The Da Vinci Code. This is beyond odd. It's downright sacrilegious, I think.
The message coming out of Hollywood these days is that the human race is an easily frightened and manipulated conglomerate that will be cut down to size. One must pay attention to the abduction of divine stars like Hanks – the emblems, the consistent subtexts beneath New World Order-promoting filmmakers like Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard, who directed The Da Vinci Code. They are talented directors, but you have to keep an eye on them.
If we can't wake up to reality, how can we expect Hollywood to shake off its enthrallment with the coming "Revolution?"
The New World Order is pulling into the station right on schedule. Hollywood is "abducting the Divine." Spielberg did it best with his film ET: The Extraterrestrial which is in essence the story of Christ, the divine symbol of pure love arriving on Earth, being persecuted and only understood by children, because of a child's total honesty and vulnerability. Christ's story is a surefire tearjerker. I wept in the movie theatre when my son Matthew took me to see ET. But that was a long time ago in a homeland far, far away… Now Spielberg is portraying aliens as barbarians come to destroy America in War of the Worlds (2005), starring the world's most famous Scientologist Tom Cruise.
Why didn't Spielberg thank Christ for the story of ET? In college, you get kicked out for plagiarizing. Perhaps it was a mere oversight on Spielberg's part. Clint Eastwood did the same thing with a film I co-starred in – Pale Rider (1985). He robbed the script of George Stevens' Shane (1953), a classic Hollywood western, and paid no tribute to its makers at all. I doubt if the notion of Revelations in Shane escaped Eastwood, when quotes from it are all over the Pale Rider script. He plays a man called Preacher, after all.
Why did Eastwood pick me for the "Van Heflin role" of the threatened homesteader? Perhaps I had a touch of the same honesty and straightforwardness that Hanks has.
How can you sell the Dragon and the Beast, Preacher, if you're the only salesman?
Then along comes screenwriter/director Paul Haggis from Hamilton, Ontario, singing Brechtian songs and churning out scripts for Eastwood, now one of the top directors in Hollywood; most recently, Haggis penned Flags of Our Fathers and Red Sun, Black Sand, the two-part story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspectives of both sides. So here we are, 60 years later, giving aid and comfort to the enemy!
In Haggis' script for Million Dollar Baby, a naïve, lower-class, unwitting and ambitious girl is sentenced to death, because American-style ambition is a no-no in present-day Hollywood . Maggie Fitzgerald (an Oscar-worthy performance by Hilary Swank) and her coach Frankie Dunn (Eastwood) set off on a quest for the Women's World Boxing Championship. From Germany comes her opponent: a hatchet-lady, title-holding champion who breaks every rule in the playbook, and brutally savages our heroine to the point of paralysis and despair as she requests that the coach help her die by euthanasia. Are you putting this puzzle together? Hollywood is ramming the value of euthanasia down our throats!
There's a mystery in Revelations spoken in the voice of our Lord, bringing our attention to a White Stone, the secret name of which is yet to be known. I know the name. It's Moby Dick, the Great White Whale of that great American novelist Herman Melville. With Communist eugenicists playing a legion of Ahabs, who do you think will win the endgame? Ahab or Moby Dick? 
Michael Moriarty is a Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actor who has appeared in the landmark television series Law and Order, the mini-series Taken, and the TV-movie The 4400. He recently starred in Pick Me Up, an episode of the Showtime TV series Masters of Horror. Michael Moriarty is also running for President of the United States in 2008 as a candidate for the Realists Party. To find out more about Moriarty's presidential campaign, contact rainbowfamily2008@yahoo.com.