Why deliberately offend (about Blasphemous Art)

Oh, you’ll love this version of Revelations from The Brick Testament … yes, the Bible in Lego. :smiley:

In case it isn’t obvious, the person responsible for that site is an atheist, and one with a taste for a special brand of lampooning mythology fanboyism. :slight_smile:

The “NSVC” letters denote nudity, sex, violence and cursing, to save you the bother of looking them up… :slight_smile:

By the way, the producer of The Brick Testament isn’t shy about depicting the numerous genocidal Lebensraum wars that litter this mythology. One of the more interesting examples being covered here. :slight_smile:

Though his Lego rendition of Revelation really does convey the acid trip nature thereof.

Oh, and in case you haven’t encountered that brand of lunacy known as The Rapture™, which is alluded to here, and which, as you might expect, the fundgeliKKKals in former US slave states don’t actually understand one bit, there’s a film you can track down on DVD that you’ll find amusing.

The film in question is Holocaust 2000, or, alternatively in the US market, by the alternative title of The Chosen, This piece of hokum managed to attract an expensive star cast, including no less a personage than Kirk Douglas (who apparently had a pressing need to pay the rent when offered the role he played therein), and such luminaries as Simon Ward, Virginia McKenna and Anthony Quayle, all of whom no doubt regret having this on their CVs.

It is, in effect, a modern day reworking of the Revelations nonsense, directed by an Italian director who had a reputation for working on “me too” chasers of popular movie trends. When The Exorcist raked in a ton of loot at the box office, The director in question, Alberto de Martino, launched into no less than three coat-tail hanger movies to cash in on the new-found enthusiasm for creepy supernatural happenings that was spawned by The Exorcist, and this is one of them.

Basically, this movie panders to every Rapture Retard fantasy in the book, it was tailor made for an audience of kapok-brained Southern Baptists and Pentecostalists who think they are going to be the people preferentially sucked up into their cartoon magic man’s North Korea in the sky, instead of the 144,000 Jews specified in the actual Revelation text. But American religio-conservatards have never felt any shame about stealing other people’s stories, and mutating said stories beyond recognition, in order to stroke their entitlement and narcissism. Mormonism is simply one of the more extreme examples of said appropriation for the purposes of ego stroking, that have appeared on the American religious landscape, and pretty much all of them were invented by, and appeal to, racist white trash.

So it is with this movie, and de Martino knew his target audience well while directing this cinematic Cheez Whiz. This piece of celluloid Velveeta was crafted specifically, to push all the right buttons and provide all the right dog whistles that the racist religious right in the USA are programmed to orgasm to. Even though this movie was released in cinemas in 1977, you can see recognisable stereotypes all over the place in this movie, including some that presage the emergence 30 years later of such terms as “towel head” and “sand nigger”. It’s both wank fodder for fundamentalists, and, as a bonus, a wet dream for certain brands of white supremacist.

The movie also panders to the techno-fear and scientific ignorance that all too often go hand in hand with the worship of Republican Jeebus, and the only major omission from this at times hilariously obvious dreck, is some snide comment about evolution of the sort we see emanating from the likes of Ham and Comfort.

Basically, look out for this at a car boot sale and pick it up for 25 cents, then slap it in the DVD player. Enjoy seeing what was made to provide “entertainment” to the sort of people who pay for Joel Osteen’s mansion, or who lap up whatever feculent garbage is being vomited into the public domain by the likes of Rick Santorum or Michele Bachmann.

Learn more about the combination of bad smell and absurd hilarity that is Holocaust 2000 here.

1 Like