Screen angels

Not only did Disneyโ€™s latest filmย Snow White take a pounding from the critics, but it also lost at the box office.ย According toย The Hollywood Reporterย during its opening weekend, the movie grossed $86.1 million falling short of its $100 million goal. With a production budget of $270 million and another $100 million in promotional advertising, Hollywood needs their own version of DOGE.ย 

Such a disastrous opening along with deconstructing another all-time classic fairy tale should make the film a shoo-in for several Oscar nominations.

Twenty years ago, when the Passion of The Christ was shut out from any Oscar nominations, any shred of relevance the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had was gone.ย The curtain had been pulled back to finally reveal the entire process is nothing more than an overindulgence for the pampered pagans that populate and manipulate Hollywood.ย In March of 2023, when Will Smith strolled on stage unprovoked and slapped Oscarโ€™s host Chris Rock underscored the depths of Hollywokeโ€™s posturing crassness.

Inspirational shows and movies of the past seem quaint and outdated, especially anything made in black and white. Today, there is seemingly no end to the outrageous and profane. What masquerades as art is mostly vulgar and sacrilegious.

There are plenty of reasons why the Snow White tale is timeless and the Christian connotations of this classic are recognizable โ€“ provided one looks.ย Snow Whiteโ€™s innocence and the Evil Queenโ€™s vanity and hate contrasts the biblical struggle between good and evil.ย The poisoned apple represents the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden.ย Snow Whiteโ€™s poisoned death-like sleep is a metaphor for sacrifice, while her awakening embodies resurrection. Snow Whiteโ€™s ability to show love manifests the potency of virtuousness, while the Evil Queenโ€™s fixation with being โ€œthe fairest of them allโ€ speaks to Lucifer, whose fall from grace was consumed with pride and arrogance.ย 

Hollywoodโ€™s powerbrokers are nothing but Marxist activists espousing and celebrating the morally degenerate.ย Confronting and exposing such malevolence requires courage.

As the late Catholic author, political analyst, and social activist George Weigel would say, โ€œYou may not be interested in the culture war, but the culture war is interested in you โ€“ and everyone else.โ€

There is a spiritual battle going on within the fallen heart of humanity.ย Christians and conservatives have failed miserably when engaging the culture and have all but surrendered the fight to the radical Left. The battle is quite real, tangible, and observable that reflects the two roads described in Matthew Chapter 7:13-14 with one leading to eternal life and the other to perdition.ย 

Enter Angel Studios, an independent film and television studio founded in 2013, who have assumed the role of cultural missionaries headquartered in Provo, Utah โ€“ an oasis in the vast Hollywoke desert โ€“ and best of all you can join them. 

Theย prevailing cultureย needs scholastic and enlightened crusaders. Divine Providence has called everyone whose eyes rest here at this particular junction of time to join the campaign as there can be no fence sitters. Angel Studios has something for everyone in their extensive library of inspirational and award-winning entertainment where the apps and website are free.

Some of Angelโ€™s notable projects include: The Chosen, The Wingfeather Saga, Dry Bar Comedy, Sound of Freedom, Cabrini, and His Only Son to name only a few.ย The Gospel is a free will gift but producing it for the screen is not.ย Angel Studios can produce and distribute such entertainment because it has a unique viewer-supported funding paradigm that underwrites their productions called the Angel Guild.

Anyone can join this revolutionary crusade in the film making industry where guild members decide which productions make it to distribution.ย Members are as much a part of the production as the actors, directors, producers and support staff in implementing their mission of inspirational storytelling by independent artists who would most likely find themselves unemployed anywhere else.ย Members also can access all of Angel Studioโ€™s titles, while receiving discounts on merchandise and complimentary theater tickets.ย 

Angel Studioโ€™s latest: The King of Kings tells the Gospel story through the eyes of a child in Victorian England. The time to return to the theater awaits as the film opens nationwide on April 11th โ€“ the week preceding Holy Week.

Greg Maresca
Greg Maresca
Greg Maresca is a New York City native and U.S. Marine Corps veteran who writes for TTC. He resides in the Pennsylvania Coal Region. His work can also be found in The American Spectator, NewsBreak, Daily Item, Republican Herald, Standard Speaker, The Remnant Newspaper, Gettysburg Times, Daily Review, The News-Item, Standard Journal and more.

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