Billy: the early years-On the big screen
By Daniel Arellano
Coming this fall to a theater near you: October 10, 2008
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Most of us know Billy Graham as the self-assured and charismatic preacher who became one of the most important figures of 20th Century Christianity. Now, with the release of Billy: The Early Years, we meet Billy as the earnest and promising young man at the crossroads of faith and doubt, ultimately facing the moment of decision that launched one of history’s most powerful evangelistic careers.
Most compellingly, Billy: The Early Years paints its portrait of Graham against the backdrop of his relationship with Charles Templeton, another gifted young preacher who’s faith could not withstand the onslaught of scientific skepticism. He and Graham parted ways and in the film, Templeton comes to personify the rising tide of disbelief into which Graham launched his crusades.
Filmed in Tennessee, Billy: The Early Years captures the feel of the Depression-era tent revival where Graham heeded the altar call, and follows him through the doubt and resolution of the next decade. The film was directed by the versatile actor/director Robby Benson – the voice of The Beast in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. The movie’s power lays in its honest portrayal of Billy’s struggle with the ideas represented in Templeton’s eventual unbelief and shows how Billy’s faith, so dramatically portrayed in the film, goes on to change the face of modern evangelism.
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State turns down filming at prison
A New Mexico filmmaker with a multimillion-dollar budget who wants to make a movie(the devil butcher shop) about the 1980 prison riot at the Penitentiary of New Mexico has been turned down by state officials.
But Corrections Secretary Joe Williams said his reason against filming the riot movie at the prison is “the wounds are too deep in our department.”
Witt said the state has encouraged James Williams to shoot the movie at other New Mexico locations, but Williams refused. “We are not trying to hide the story. It’s a New Mexico story,” Witt said.
The state has tried to encourage filmmakers to shoot in New Mexico. Several films have been made in the state by New Mexicans, but none has come close to having a budget as large as James Williams is planning, $20 million, said Lisa Stout, director of the state Film Office.
Bloody prison riot shocks the nation article
Many consider the riot among the most horrific in America’s modern prison system. For 36 hours in February 1980, the penitentiary near Santa Fe turned into a nightmare in which inmates and guards were tortured. In all, 33 inmates were killed.
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