“Valkyrie”-Scientology Buries Hollywood
Tom Cruise decides there’s no need for him to adopt a German accent. In a picture about Nazi Germany. In which he’s a German. He doesn’t need to adopt an English accent either, so that at least he’d be in sync with the fine British actors who wasted their time but picked up a paycheck doing this flick.
“That which is real to the person himself is all one is asked to accept of Scientology” (from their site), and perhaps Cruise took that a bit too literally.
There’s a lame attempt in the first 2 minutes to morph from German to English in order to convince the audience that the West Coast matinee idol is a German who’s looking to undermine the Fuhrer.
All it undermined was the film. The whole film.
And Hollywood spent hundreds of millions making and promoting this limp piece of celluloid, while schools are overcrowded, foreclosures are rising, and the resources for those real life tragedies are nowhere to be found.
Our values have gone seriously astray. Our values need to be re-evaluated.
I have no problem with an industry’s ability to run itself into the ground, whether it’s Hollywood or Detroit.
I have a problem when my tax dollars are used to save poor execution in a free market endeavor. And I see no problem with raising Tom Cruise’s tax rate in order to fund the needs of his fans, who go home and sweat the essential details.
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Ironic that Scientology is banned in Germany…
that’s a great factoid. you’d think the Teutonic mind would go for something like that, so you’re right, the irony, Cruise completely aside, is pretty intense. LK