Want to Succeed in Hollywood? Pat Boone Says Ditch ‘Corrupt Films’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Singer, actor, author and TV personality Pat Boone thinks Hollywood should embrace family and faith-friendly films.
“People waste millions making sordid, corrupt films that fail,” Boone told Fox News Digital at the Movieguide® Awards. “Once in a while they get big, to the sorrow of all of us. But if you want to make a successful, profitable film, make it family friendly, make it faith friendly, make it a good story, and do it well, and you’ve got a great shot.”
“I make movies and I sing and I do all the things I’ve done as a career because I like doing it,” he continued later on. “But, of course, you like it a lot better if it’s successful. But faith-based films, and even for that matter, music, television all does better with families in mind, if children are in mind, and if something in your heart communicates that you want the best and not the worst.”
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Boone released a song last year called “Where Did America Go?” The song encourages Americans to unite as one to bring the country back to what it used to be.
“With this new song, I’m calling for us to come back together in the way that we were when this country became America. I hope you will connect with the truths in the lyrics of this song and find hope in the solutions that I present,” Boone wrote on his social media at the time.
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“I’m trying to put all these thoughts into words that we can all understand and agree with, and in a melody I think is singable and memorable,” he added. “I hope you all enjoy the new track, and I hope that it resonates with you in these times.”
The actor believes Hollywood’s caliber, quality and storylines “used to be the best commercial for America in the world…we always made America look great. We became the envy of the rest of the world.”
“But then, with films or television like DALLAS and other films that made heroes out of people who were doing dastardly things,” Boone continued, “then we started creating more and more films [going] around the world showing America and the underbelly and the worst that we can be, and now we can deserve in some nations [to be] called ‘The Great Satan.’”
“We gotta stop that. We gotta start and continue to produce really good positive things that make people glad to be alive and not afraid to be or sorry to be alive,” he insisted.
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