Witnesses Director Promotes Film
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:18 pm
I have been out of the loop for a while so today i surfed to the ldsfilmfest website to see if the W film was still on for this Wednesday. Yes and it shows a runtime of 110 minutes. The film festival schedule shows Wednesday eve showing and then on Saturday the director Mark Goodman holds forth in a film director's session at 4pm.
What made my day was a link to a 2/21 audio interview of Goodman on FM100.3 which i listened to for about 10 of the 20 minutes and had to throw up after that time. Goodman is definitely a TBM, saying in Sunday school one member could only name 2 of the 3 witnesses so Goodman got the itch to do a film on the subject. He said he forwarded the script to some scholars, one of whom questioned why he did not do a documentary instead of a dramatic feature film-Goodman said his film was historically accurate and that drama would sell more tickets. What was unexpected and it is not clear to me but Goodman said he was including some drama/truth around the Kirkland Anti-bank fiasco and some drama around the Kirkland temple- it will be interesting if he is doing this as filler or weaving the story to show some of the witnesses left the church for one reason or another. One of the actors may be on the audio cast but i did not get that far.
https://fm100.com/podcasts/2021-02-21-r ... n-hoppe-8/
Above is the link as best i could capture it if anyone wants to listen to how great this film is in the eyes of the director and the radio interviewer- and perhaps listen for the full 20 minutes without getting sick.
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What made my day was a link to a 2/21 audio interview of Goodman on FM100.3 which i listened to for about 10 of the 20 minutes and had to throw up after that time. Goodman is definitely a TBM, saying in Sunday school one member could only name 2 of the 3 witnesses so Goodman got the itch to do a film on the subject. He said he forwarded the script to some scholars, one of whom questioned why he did not do a documentary instead of a dramatic feature film-Goodman said his film was historically accurate and that drama would sell more tickets. What was unexpected and it is not clear to me but Goodman said he was including some drama/truth around the Kirkland Anti-bank fiasco and some drama around the Kirkland temple- it will be interesting if he is doing this as filler or weaving the story to show some of the witnesses left the church for one reason or another. One of the actors may be on the audio cast but i did not get that far.
https://fm100.com/podcasts/2021-02-21-r ... n-hoppe-8/
Above is the link as best i could capture it if anyone wants to listen to how great this film is in the eyes of the director and the radio interviewer- and perhaps listen for the full 20 minutes without getting sick.
just postin
k