The debate over the necessity of sex scenes has died down in recent years because there are fewer sex scenes than ever in Hollywood films. Hollywood has heeded the cries of virginal moviegoers who are tired of seeing hot people kissing in front of their families. It’s embarrassing and they shouldn’t have to deal with it. Fortunately, the two biggest Hollywood films of the year…The Odyssey And Spider-Man: A Whole New Day– are quite chaste, showing few nipples and even fewer buttocks. (It defies reason that Christopher Nolan deprived us of a good shot of that big ass Cyclops, but we digress.)
Although Hollywood is stuck in a fairly sexless era, “faith-friendly” indie studio Angel, known for The sounds of freedom, Young Washingtonand the upcoming choc-aganda biopic Hersheypromises to show even less smut than the coastal elites of Tinsel Town. Appearing on Fox News, Angel co-founder Jeff Harmon said, “Hollywood generally lives in a bubble” that “is moving further and further away from the values-based audiences they used to serve.” Harmon believes that “as brothers and fathers,” the big studios are failing them. To better serve his colleagues and fathers, who are tired of watching a few nude scenes in front of their sisters and daughters, Harmon made a solemn vow: “We promise that there will never be nudity, and there will never be sex on screen. » He continues:
“We promise our viewers that this timeless principle that’s thousands of years old, and we’re a very faith-friendly studio, is that we’re not going to misuse the name of God on the system in any original Angel content. So any content that we create. Where we originate from, which is Angel first, these shows, these TV shows and these movies, will not have any misuse of the name of God, so that families of faith, because we are a faith-friendly studio, can trust this language I will not be there.
Fortunately, Harmon doesn’t mention the violence because there’s nothing in the good book that says faith-based moviegoers can’t appreciate Jim Caviezel blowing a child trafficker’s head off. He adds: “Our goal was to try to solve this problem of getting out of the Hollywood bubble and putting ourselves in the shoes of Central America. »
In a way, Harmon’s promise takes Angel back to his roots. Under the original name, VidAngel, Harmon and his brother Neal launched a DVD sales startup. For as little as $20, the company would remove objectionable content from films and send the cleaned-up versions directly to consumers. Customers could then resell the disk to VidAngel for $19. That is, until the studios sued the company for pirating DVD and Blu-ray discs to make their edits, and the court ordered VidAngel to pay them $62 million in damages. VidAngel later tried a streaming version of it before filing for bankruptcy in 2017 and resurrecting in 2020.
