Crux Goes Mainstream

I’m not wrong when I say that there isn’t anything more mainstream than a good crucifixion, and it’s been so for over 2000 years. Sure, that’s but a whisper in the age of the universe, but, still, it’s many, many generations of Mainstream Crux. Isn’t that the reason why so many of those who follow us love it? If not all of them?

What’s the point of my post?

Well, not long ago, someone commented in a private message that The Passion of the Christ made 600,000,000 bucks. My first thought was that if it had made 666,000.000 exactly, I would go religious.

My response was that Gibson invested 25,000,000 of his own money and was clever enough to target the millions of people in the evangelical world. If we were to try the same, with a Female Christ, we would have a problem finding a target with such numbers as to make 600,000,000 bucks. Worse yet, we don’t have 25,000,000, not even 1,000,000.

Although in most of our movies beautiful females suffer the pains and agony of the crucifixion, we never made a Big Production Values movie with the very specific Female Christ Theme… And by that I mean a movie set in Roman Empire times, with all the costumes, the locations, the props to make it work, and based on the actual story of The Christ. Anathema!

Well… there are some videos out there that I know of. Like Ramon’s short or shorts.

There are even video taped performances in schools, with young girls performing the passion play, all female passion play where you see a pretty young lady carrying her cross.

So, a question came our way… Would we be willing to make a Female Christ Big Production Values film? Would we? … Could we? … Should we?

The question had a comment and I agree with it, this film could be, the only one of it’s kind so far. Part of the comment was: I have spent many hours searching the net, without finding anything close to this.

Coincidentally, not very long ago Jac was having a nice talk with Dani and Mila about future films, he happened to mention that he had an idea for a crucifixion movie set in ancient Roman times, inspired by Mila’s look in Pygmalion, particularly one promo picture where she looks like she could play Cleopatra.

The story is that of a sad Egyptian priestess that ends up nailed up to a cross. It has nice, high drama, but it needs locations like a Temple to Osiris, costumes for the priestesses, Roman soldiers, at least a Centurion and not to mention all those extras, and, of course the costume of the noble Roman woman who falls prey to the machinations of our dear and very naughty Egyptian priestess.

After Jac told them what it would take to make such a movie, they agreed with his reasoning that it would be too costly, a lot more than Dead But Dreaming, and that they would have to put some good cash to get all those Roman costumes, work the sets, the locations… all of that…

And for the purpose of this discussion, it would not be a Female Christ Movie, with the female Christ going about healing the blind, casting demons out, defying the religious leaders… all of that… to then end up crucified with two thieves, female of course, to each side… but then… something happened… that asteroid coming down and crashing into the ongoing pre-production party.

Wonderful news Margot!

You, Jac and your team seems to have a lot of exciting and interesting ongoing and upcoming projects!

Starting with the TV series: Will it contribute to make the ‘crux theme’ more accepted in mainstream media? (Guess you can’t answer that yet…  )

Even more intriguing: When I read a line like ‘The Film I Can’t Discuss Yet’, curiosity increases dramatically ofc! Will be hard to wait!

Hope you can reveal more soon!

I will now follow your thread very frequently, hope other CF members do the same! 

(PS: I hope your projects, old and new will have a broad support from the CF members. Your work is very important in order to make the female crux subject more accepted in mainstream media. Good luck!!!)

xso

The Film I Can’t Discuss Yet (TFICDY) is getting closer and closer to be The Thing in our very near future. The Series, however, is not The Thing.

In The Series there will be two crucifixion scenes but not exactly feature length like TFICDY. One crucifixion scene will come on the second episode of the first season, while the second crucifixion will be the ending of either the second or third season. If that counts as bringing the Crux Theme to a mainstream audience, I guess that’s what it will be a possibility. But that’s not TFICDY. The Series is the second asteroid that came down crashing on the HQ of Pachamama Films

The first massive asteroid, The Film I Can’t Discuss Yet, has the potential of making an impact all over the place. The extreme violence in TFICDY would be incredibly intense. An orgy of bloody cruelty. And I bet that comment of mine will be made by some critics and I bet some will call it a Masterpiece comparable to Maleficarum, while others an affront to the universe, worse yet, Anathema!

I can understand Jac – I like to have two or three jobs on the go, swapping from one to another, I find I approach them more freshly, don’t get bogged down with a single set of issues. But I’m probably not so intense and driven as he is! 

Eulalia

He has added a few notches to his intensity, throwing all those balls up in the air and juggling the projects without missing a beat, looking at each as it passes by his eyesight while his brain, in full storm, makes notes, adjustments, adds ideas, cuts shots… and on and on and on… total creative madness, I say.

I’m sure that very soon I will have a lot more to say about this feverish time we’re living.

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