Make ‘Em Laugh…

I cannot wait to see this movie. I loved Bruce Almighty, it was hilarious, yet there was such a good message behind it, so many things you could take away from it. How many times in your life have you felt like Bruce, kneeling in the middle of the road, at the end of your rope, completely burnt out from trying to do everything you wanted, your own way, having no other way to go but to stop, look up and say…”I give up, I submit to your will, I can’t do this on my own”.

When I first caught wind of Evan Almighty, my first reaction was probably the same as most people.

“What!!?! No Jim Carrey!?!?”

But after seeing the trailer, I was convinced that the movie would be fine without him, my only other concern was that the movie was just being made for the sake of making a sequel. This article confirms that is not the case. Hopefully more people in the arts, be it movies, music, writing, whatever, take the same approach Tom Shadyac does.

In the world of music, artists generally fall into two categories. There are “Christian musicians” who make Christians albums for Christian record labels that are being bought mostly by Christians. And then there are musicians who happen to be Christians. I take it you’re a director who happens to be a Christian, and not a “Christian director.”

Shadyac: Yeah, and I even have a hard time with that label—though you’re not going to meet a bigger Jesus freak. Someone asked me the other day, “What’s the biggest influence on your filmmaking career?” And they started naming filmmakers. I went, “Naw, it’s Jesus actually.”