Rather Than Stumble In The Dark...

For his May 5, 2005 commentary on the Prison Fellowship website's Breakpoint page, Chuck Colson features the films of Philip Anschutz, the Christian billionaire from Colorado who has just spent $150 million to film The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the first of the Narnia books by C. S. Lewis. According to Colson, Anschutz is showing us what we’d find at the box office if Hollywood gave Americans the kind of films we really want to see.

Appropriately titled, Lighting a Hollywood Candle, the commentary likens Anschutz to Mel Gibson whose highly successful rendering of Jesus' last days leading to his crucifixion in The Passion of the Christ turned the doggedly secular Hollywood entertainment world upside down.

In writing about Anschutz, Colson shares many encouraging trends that may yet spell hope to the world-oriented post-Christian philosophied warping the Hollywood media machine insists on producing.

To quote Colson:

Of the twenty top-grossing films of all time, not a single one is rated R. Of the top fifty films, only five are rated R. Clearly, Americans want family fare they can take the kids to.

And yet, as Anschutz noted in a recent speech, since the year 2000, Hollywood has “turned out more than five times as many R-rated films as it has films rated G or PG or soft PG-13. . . . Don’t these figures make you wonder what’s wrong with Hollywood just from a business point of view?”

Read the rest of the commentary...

One of Philip Anschutz's films, by the way, is the recent Oscar award-winning movie on the life of Ray Charles called, Ray.

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