Ebner on Cruise video
Hollywood Interrupted's Mark Ebner talking to Rush & Molloy about the Tom Cruise Scientology recruitment video that was up for a while on Sunday and early Monday before it was yanked. Again -- it's not what Cruise believes or how he expresses himself that gets me. It's that insane narrator. He sounds just like the guy who narrated the opening of the '50s Superman TV series with George Reeves. That strident tone of barking machismo...whew.
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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on January 15, 2008 at 10:58 AM
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BlueRaymondBabbit
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Can't wait for the Valkyrie press tour. Will anyone ask Cruise about the perfect future society he speaks of? The one where all "SP"s have become forgotten relics for the "history books"?
I love being a "Suppressive Person", but it seems to me that the Scientologists are "Suppressing" all the cool Cruise clips.
KSW, Scientologists! Release the clips!
Posted by BlueRaymondBabbit
at January 15, 2008 11:26 AM
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tophertilson
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The Freedom Medal of Valor? Good God, it's like a religion run by really cool ten year olds.
Posted by tophertilson
at January 15, 2008 11:32 AM
comment #3
Bocephus
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I thought SP stood for "secular progressive?" All these crazy person acronyms confuse me so much!
Posted by Bocephus
at January 15, 2008 11:37 AM
comment #4
Mumbleboy
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I know the narrator got you, but it was more of what Cruise said that freaked me out... "if I pass by an accident, I know I am the only one that can help." When did Tom get his M.D.?
Posted by Mumbleboy
at January 15, 2008 11:45 AM
comment #5
PhilVillarreal
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Gawker isn't backing down and still has the video up: http://gawker.com/5002269/the-cruise-indoctrination-video-scientology-tried-to-suppress?autoplay=true
Posted by PhilVillarreal
at January 15, 2008 11:52 AM
comment #6
BlueRaymondBabbit
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Want some real KSW crazy? Check out:
http://suppressiveperson.org/spdl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=460&Itemid=30
Wow. Madness! I love it.
Fun stuff!
Posted by BlueRaymondBabbit
at January 15, 2008 12:00 PM
comment #7
Rich S.
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Screw Tom Cruise. This Superman clip is great. Want to know why Richard Donner's Superman was a smash and Bryan Singer's bombed? Look no further than this clip. Corny? Sure. But quintessentially Superman.
Posted by Rich S.
at January 15, 2008 12:04 PM
comment #8
Mgmax, le Corbeau
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One day... SPs... they'll just read about them in the history books.
Only if David Miscavige gets the bomb, Tom.
Posted by Mgmax, le Corbeau
at January 15, 2008 12:15 PM
comment #9
GKLondon
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Tom Cruise scares the shit out of me!
There's not "some sort of pod people" element to what's going on, IT IS FUCKING POD PEOPLE!!!!!
It seems that scientology is in the game of never finishing a thought, so as to prevent the utter transparent ridiculousness of that thought to slap the listener in the face. The literature is full of run-on sentences that loose their meaning halfway through, though are peppered with aspirational phrases that keep whatever shaved ape who happens to be listening with anything other than abject horror in the positive mindset about what is being said. KSW, 'Keep Scientology Working"? Nice, so basically, if the 'policies' as Cruise puts it, of this religion don't seem to be working, it's your fault, not the religion. "Either with us or against us".
It's self help for the soul, and it's fucking off the reservation.
At least they're doing something yadda yadda yadda.... So what, the fucking Nazi's were commendable because they were organised and had ideas about how they wanted the world to be? These people are the most proactive bunch of dip shit, mindless, neutered, dependent reductive lunatics I've ever seen.
I weep for the future. literally, I weep because of this shit. I'm with Lumet "Religion was over, finished!". I really thought we as a species would be more into the idea of controlling our own destinies by now, rather then the few working to control us all and the rest not even giving a shit.
Qualification - Irish Catholic, considered becoming a priest before I reached halfway through my teenage years and actually followed most statements made during the sermon with a question rather than an 'Amen', so don't get all 'Godless critic!' on my ass, or I'll have you shaved, sterilised and destroyed.
Posted by GKLondon
at January 15, 2008 12:53 PM
comment #10
Edward
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Recovering Catholic, former seminarian here. The Catholic Church has some weird ideas: The cult of Mary being one of the weirdest. But Scientology? WTF!!!
I couldn't even get through reading the KSW document that BlueRaymondBabbit linked. If they are the only ones who can do anything (as Cruise states), why haven't they? Not sure if I should laugh hysterically or cry out in terror.
Posted by Edward
at January 15, 2008 1:07 PM
comment #11
Edward
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I love the sound effect of the gun in the Superman opening.
Posted by Edward
at January 15, 2008 2:08 PM
comment #12
christian
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I took one of the Scientology personality tests when I was 21 just so I could have an opine.
I will never forget the antiseptic gloomy cult vibe of that place nor the people. I had to literally bolt out of there...
Posted by christian
at January 15, 2008 3:43 PM
comment #13
Craig Kennedy
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I am totally signing up right now. That was awesome. Will someone follow me around and play the Mission Ipossible theme and stuff? That would be sweet.
Posted by Craig Kennedy
at January 15, 2008 4:22 PM
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Edward
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Thanks cj, that got me chuckling.
Posted by Edward
at January 15, 2008 4:27 PM
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ZayTonday
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Wow, I'm aware of how stupid and fucked up the Church of Scientology is, and that damn video STILL had me pumped at the end of it even though Cruise wasn't really saying shit. That video was brainwashing at its finest.
Cruise should get a fucking Oscar for that clip alone.
The nonstop Mission Impossible music also helped of course. lol
Posted by ZayTonday
at January 16, 2008 1:02 AM