@stackerco@justin_hart But was “Christian” baptism really its own thing, originally? Or did the Christians just retcon John and Jesus the Jews’ ritual immersion and try to rebrand it as something “new”?
Mario Bava on the troubles he faced while making 'Planet of the Vampires' (1965):
"I wish that the audience and the critics knew the conditions under which I am forced to make movies. For 'Planet of the Vampires' (1965), I didn’t have anything to work with. There was only a studio, completely empty and squalid, because there was no money: I had to turn that into a [mysterious, alien] planet.
So what did I do? In the studio next door there were two big plastic rocks, a leftover prop from a sword-and-sandal movie or something. I took these two rocks and I put them in the middle of my studio, then I covered the floor with smoke and I darkened the white wall in the background.
I shot the whole movie by moving the two rocks around the studio. Can you believe it? And, while I was shooting, there was this American screenwriter who kept rewriting the script, changing scenes and dialogues… After a while, I stopped listening to him.
Do you remember that, at the end of the movie, the astronauts land on planet Earth at the beginning of its existence? Well, the screenwriter wanted the astronauts to get off the spaceship and meet Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, which was located in Missouri, USA. Naturally, I refused to shoot this kind of stuff."
(Mario Bava's interview with Luigi Cozzi, translated by Cinepugno, 1970)
@HansenWJason@SocialistMormon We’re both part of the same machine (I’m a personal injury lawyer so I’m just further down the chain of making the carriers do what they don’t want to do).
@jnjweld@SocialistMormon Socialism is far more closely aligned with the United Order and the church’s yearning for Zion (one heart, one mind, and no poor among them) than western capitalism.