Issue 09 Preaching about MoneyBlog | God in the movies
God in the movies
Author: Andy PeckPost Date: 16.12.16
It goes without saying that in Hollywood, money is everywhere. At the 2016 Oscar ceremony, the top nominees received gift bags reportedly worth $232,000. The budget for the average blockbuster is mind-boggling: this year’s Batman Vs Superman: Dawn of Justice cost $250 million to make. (To put that in perspective, the Cook Islands have an annual GDP of around the same amount.) The annual global box office revenue of the US film industry alone is estimated at around $38.3 billion. (That’s more than it would purportedly cost to end global hunger.)
C an an industry so steeped in wealth have anything meaningful to say about money? It’s said that people who have money never have to talk about it, and to an extent this seems to hold true for Hollywood. It’s rare to find films which explicitly focus on money. Often financial security, or lack thereof, is simply there in the background: characters in glossy romantic comedies have aspirational jobs and seem to live in impossibly upmarket New York apartments, while the heroes of gritty blue-collar
