I have a 26-year-old director who does the shoot in his parent’s garage while they are away. Other than that, his equipment, crew, and special-effects technology are state of the art (film school kids between gigs). The actor playing Mohammed is unknown but very good, and he is a native Arabic speaker. Most importantly, the director hires an Islamic scholar who writes Mohammed’s words and coaches the actor in portraying an authentic 10th century dialect, including obscure idioms. The professor INSISTS that his name be left off the credits – he is working for $50,000 in cash, and he rightfully fears for his life if this “short film” becomes widely known.

I like your other ideas. I’d rather not discuss other details in this public venue – if you’d like to go back and forth further in private, drop me a note.

You, too, are exactly correct. This is a point I’ve tried to make several times on other blogs and forums I hang out at — satisfying as it may be to vent our spleens in our blogs, and on talk radio, ultimately we conservatives *have* to do more than just commiserate with each other in our echo chambers. If you want to win a war — hot war, cold war, war of ideas, culture war, whatever — you can’t do it just by sitting around the chow hall kibbitzing with each other; sooner or later you *have* to go out and engage the opposition.

And let me say, to those of you who’ve had the stones to come out of the Hollywood closet on this site and be counted — good on ya. I, for one, shall be keeping a little list of names, and using it to help decide where my entertainment dollars go in future…

But there would be justice and satisfaction. The director and his journalist girlfriend get what they deserve. I have not yet created a “straight” character – possibly that will be someone with the CIA.

I have two other noir comedy ideas, one (in the treatment stage) that deals with race relations one that deals with eco-terrorism. If we are going to change the Hollywood culture, we MUST go beyond blogging – we must produce solid commercial material.

If you can actually get this to the screen, I’ll be there on opening night in the front row.

Not that SNL would have the cojones, of course.

Want to begin to change the Hollywood culture? We need 95-minute satires, not skits. Take a SERIOUS subject, and make it into a gitty noir comedy by exposing the duplicity and the groupthink of the elite left.

Some possible venues:

1. Islamic fundamentalism
2. Eco-terrorism
3. Anti-war activism
4. Campus censorship
5. Race relations

But those are SERIOUS topics, you protest – surely they would make poor fodder for comedy. But they would make great subjects for dark comedy. Dark comedy is hard to pull off – MUCH harder than zanny comedy. But it can be SO effective as a film.

The left took the ugliness of war and thermonuclear holocaust (to name but two examples) and made them into the finest dark comedy ever seen. We need to do the same. Again, many leftists will say that conservatives CANNOT do it because we lack imagination and a sense of irony. My question is, are they correct?