Six Days in August D.O.A.?

[Moksha]

Brigham Young had been declared a vicious misogynist. And, since at least the days of the sensationalistic dime novels of the nineteenth century, and carried on by Zane Gray and his tales of the “Danites,” he has been labeled a murderer and an assassin. Recently he has even been accused of leading an apostolic coup to seize control of the Church and, no less, of having ordered John Taylor and Willard Richards to kill Joseph and Hyrum Smith in Carthage Jail.

It is easy to see why Dr. Peterson would want to honor Brigham Young with another movie.

[Doctor Scratch]

Thanks IHAQ and Tom.

I read the link, and I think I see what's going on here. He was lukewarm, but became convinced over time that it's a very important work given how Brigham is vilified for all the nasty things he did.

It's a red herring. It would be like making a film about Hitler as an art student and leaving it at that.

Essentially my impression as well. He sees himself as also being “vilified,” so if he can make a movie that redeems BY….well…then…?

[drumdude]

The first 3 weeks of both of DCP's films compared:

[drumdude]

The cumulative totals compared are even more striking:

[Moksha]

Another movie idea that apologists might consider, is how the Brethren unified together to block the wild idea of Hugh B. Brown and those University of Utah so-called "Liberal Mormons" trying to give priesthood and temple-going status to people of African descent.

Maybe a catchy title like, The Night They Drove Hugh B. Brown Down.

[Doctor Scratch]

The complete and utter abandonment of the film by the Executive Producer has been remarkable. He’s off on a racist/colonialist vacation that’s all about effacing actual meso-American history and culture in favor of Mopologetic fantasies about Book of Mormon “history.” The BY movie has been “expunged” from recent memory, it would seem.

[Gadianton]

The complete and utter abandonment of the film by the Executive Producer has been remarkable. He’s off on a racist/colonialist vacation that’s all about effacing actual meso-American history and culture in favor of Mopologetic fantasies about Book of Mormon “history.” The BY movie has been “expunged” from recent memory, it would seem.

Would be interesting to hear the tales he's telling his tourists.

[I Have Questions]

The cumulative totals compared are even more striking:

If the box office take finishes at $500,000 (a generous estimate), Interpreter will make around $250,000 back on it’s >$2,000,000 investment in production costs.

“I'm not normally a betting man, but if I were, I'd wager that the movie will not make back even 25% of its budget at the box office.” (Doctor Scratch 6th October 2024)

[Tom]

Friday, November 1

Box office: $6,136 (all numbers are estimates)
%+/- YD: +7.3
%+/- LW: -50
Theaters: 18
Average per theater: $340
Total domestic gross to date: $348,682
Days: 22

My prediction for the number of theaters showing the film on Friday: 21

A bit optimistic.

Will the film be around for 30 days? I think it has a chance.

[Doctor Scratch]

The complete and utter abandonment of the film by the Executive Producer has been remarkable. He’s off on a racist/colonialist vacation that’s all about effacing actual meso-American history and culture in favor of Mopologetic fantasies about Book of Mormon “history.” The BY movie has been “expunged” from recent memory, it would seem.

Would be interesting to hear the tales he's telling his tourists.

It would seem that he’s all about ridiculing and mocking indigenous Meso-American beliefs. He refers to “contemporary archaeologists and anthropologists” in support of his mockery and goes on to trash several different narratives.

It’s interesting: when applied to LDS mythology—I.e., when anyone points out that no serious scholar believes that the Book of Mormon is legitimate history—that is “anti-Mormonism” and grounds for banning on SeN. And yet look how the Afore shamelessly indulges in exactly this same behavior! Is he in a state of desperation, due to the complete and utter (and thus richly satisfying) failure of “Six Days in August” at the box office? Is that why he’s so clueless about his hypocrisy?

He is complaining on a near-daily basis about other people “taking over” or “re-defining” the LDS narrative, and yet what did he and his pals just do in Guatemala and Mexico? Did they go down there with open minds, seeking to learn? Or, instead, did they go to reassure themselves that their Eurocentric, North American religious beliefs take precedence over actual Latin American history?