What historical figure would you like to see a movie about for balance?

[Quixote1818]

Living in a country that is predominantly Christian The Passion Of The Christ has taken on a life of it's own which may leave people of other faiths and philosophy's feeling a little lonely and irritated. What spiritual, philosophical or religious figure would you like to see a major Hollywood movie about to balance things out? Here are a few to consider:


How about how Thomas Jefferson fought for free thought, humanism and provided the legislation to free the human mind and allow people to believe what they want to believe, creating a country where religious persecution is almost nonexistent?

How about a movie about someone who impacted the European Enlightenment like Descartes, Voltaire, Bacon and Locke?


How about the Fathers of Existentialism like Pascal, Kierkegaard or Nietzsche?

Or major players of the Transcendentalist movement like Emerson or Thoreau?

Some other spiritual leaders.

Buddha
Krishna
Mohamed
Gandhi - Perhaps another one.
Jesus - Without the miracles as just an amazing man?
David Koresh - Any takers?

[On the Road]

1. How About James K Polk?

Then we could see the the Mexican War in all its glory. Manifest destiny in action. And how effective threats to invade Canada can be. Inspirational for any true American. :)

[SerpentX]

2. The great humanist, Erasmus

[corporatewhore]

3. inanna

[MrScorpio]

4. Thomas Hobbes

Too bad he wasn't a people person

[BlackVelvetElvis]

10. I wonder if Hobbes would've liked Bush.

[MrScorpio]

18. Sure, he'd say:

"Just look at this guy. He proves my point"

[AnnaCatherine]

5. re: "What historical figure would you like to see a movie about for balanc

I am reading Angles and Demons by Dan Brown (The daVinci Code) so I'd vote for Galileo. He was persecuted by the Vatican for his beliefs. They destroyed his work and even set him at house arrest because he dared disobey the Vatican "scientists". Yeah! His work has prevailed!

AnnaCatherine

[Plaid Adder]

6. Perhaps Mel could make a sequel starring Veronica.

Only instead of just some chick who hands him a facetowel on the Via Dolorosa, she could be a half-cyborg action hero who leaps into the procession, kickboxes her way through the Roman guard and then drags Jesus to safety while zapping all the Pharisees with her navel-mounted laser cannon.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[DBoon]

13. And some sharks with lasers attached to their heads, too

n/t

[rfkrocks]

7. Ben Franklin

you could drink some cold beverages of your choice with him, he would give you plently of wisecracks about the movie, you could burp during the movie without apologizing and after the movie, at the bar, he would be a babe magnet:evilgrin:

[truhavoc]

8. JS Mill firstly....

see how he would react to current evens based on his words in "On Liberty".

[MrSlayer]

9. Atilla the Hun.

Not enough movies about him.

[Gildor Inglorion]

11. Leonardo da Vinci

Incredibly brilliant scientist, artist, inventor, genius, homosexual. :D

[DBoon]

12. Joe Hill

A think a movie about the IWW would be great. A very colorful and romatic group, very much a part of the American west.

Alternately, many other US labor leaders would make good documentary fodder - Eugene Debs, Walter Reuther, John Lewis, Harry Bridges,....

[Jade Fox]

15. great minds think alike :-)

:toast:

I posted my John Lewis before I saw your post...

[Jade Fox]

14. Labor leader John L. Lewis

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. Locke wuold be great, since so much of his philosophy informed

the thinking of our founders - would be wonderful to get a good movie of him and his thoughts, and show how utterly against that the freeper types are.

or maybe best to do a realistic movie about the founding of our nation, and the debates that ensued, and through those debates destory the religious, political, and corporate RightWing as beingmorally bankrupt and not having any kind of leg on which to stand.

[PVnRT]

17. Torquemada, to watch the fundies complain

about how Christians look engaging in torture.

[NightTrain]

19. Martin Luther King

Hey, Malcolm X got a biopic, and a damned good one at that. So why not Martin?

[homelandpunk]

20. ALEISTER CROWLEY

That could be a way cool movie.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

21. Joseph Campbell

Jiddu Krishnamurti
The Dalai Lama

[mopinko]

22. mother jones, elizabeth cady staton

[homelandpunk]

23. Gurdjieff, William Branham, Madame Blavatsky, Tesla, Black Elk

and did I mention Crowley? :)