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Published on: 11/25/2007
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To Omaha filmmaker Mark Hoeger of Oberon Entertainment, it's all business - and not just the movie business.
"All kinds of groups make and raise money by exploiting everybody's favorite emotion: righteous indignation," he said."Both the right and the left are guilty of it.The systems feed on each other."
Hoeger said the resulting polarization keeps legitimate, thoughtful discussion of religion out of film - and keeps Hollywood making movies that offend as few as possible.
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Hoeger, the Omaha filmmaker, said the bottom line will always be profit.
"People often say Hollywood has an agenda," he said."Its only agenda is making money, delivering whatever product sells.If that's fuzzy 'VeggieTales,' great.If it's hard-core porn, great.All you have to do is get people to stop going, and Hollywood will stop making them."
A better approach than boycotts, Hoeger said, might be for parents to simply acknowledge what's in Pullman's books.