Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt00908)

G'day Leon,

Is Bill Gates a theosophist? I am thinking the same thing as you in regards to a wait and watch attitude, but I would like to know how far inland I need to be to avoid the splash! My girls both have apartments on the sea-front! Perhaps it is time to sell now. I'm not being mercenery just practical because we will all need a place to live, if we survive, after the event. I know one thing for sure, whatever money I have it is going under my bed, and if I am to go, I hope to god my cards are all maxed out!!! My final prayer.
I agree the project is vast, what about a horror tv movie about the astral. My bedtime stories to my girls about the lower levels of the astral kept my kids free from serious drug abuse. "If you break through the sheath, and the antakarana is severed you might find that , beasts and demons are prodding you to wake up in their special place.!" My eldest would say, Fark!, my youngest, shit shutup mum. Double edged sword effect, a bit about theosophy, a bit about drugs.
Hope you are keeping well.
Regards
Cass

leonmaurer@aol.com wrote:

Hi Cass,

Thanks for defending my Company's film project. Actually, there's no need. 
I might have actually been pulling all your legs.

The reason the Blavatsky film project (either planned by me or anyone else) 
has never gotten off the ground is that the only one who would ever finance it, 
even in its early stages of preproduction (I know after that's done right, we 
could easily get money from a production/distribution company like 
DreamWorks, perhaps, who wouldn't mess with the idea) -- would be a very wealthy 
theosophist who would give us a free hand to package it for presentation exactly the 
way the script projected it. 

Actually, I was just shooting in the dark -- since I don't expect anyone on 
this forum to be or know such a wealthy theosophist. :-) Besides, what I was 
really poking for, since someone had already brought up the idea of such a 
film, was a decent story line and script by an excellent screenwriter who is also 
a theosophist (and would partner with us). But, even that would be hard to 
come by through this forum. In fact, that's why the idea has been kicking 
around for so long. The last time I talked about it with Gene Roddenberry, he 
said, "Forgeddaboudit! ... All the good theosophically minded screenwriters are 
working full time for me and George (Lucas) and they have no time to work on 
spec... Besides, they're all members of the Writers Guild, that won't let them 
do it even if they wanted to." (And, that's why we need the rich theosophist 
to pay for a writer along with all the other preproduction costs.) Although. I 
still have hope that if the picture is destined to be made, the right people 
will show up to do it. (My advice and expertise, of course, is always free, 
and my company earnings are all assigned to a non profit foundation.)

Our other picture idea with a theosophical background, "The Solarworld 
Chronicles" -- that's a sci-fi epic broken into a series of films telling the story 
of the next hundred years showing how we can get to a "Paradise on Earth" and 
avoid the way it is being pushed into the pits now -- also had similar 
problems (since, although it has all the story lines for up to seven films already 
prepared, it has yet to get a decent screenplay)... And, has even bigger 
problems, since it pokes hard at the politicalized money grubbing Dugpas currently 
corrupting and running the world today, and since they have so much 
unscrupulous power, it would take a very brave writer, indeed, to get involved -- even if 
we could pay him/her to work under Writer's Guild rules. Another problem is 
that this concept can't use the metaphorical method to expose political 
corruption such as used in Star Wars, Dune, etc.... And has to tell it like it is 
and point fingers at real people in a real world, and show where they are 
leading us. Dangerous stuff, indeed, these days of "Newspeak" when Freedom 
sometimes means the opposite of Liberty.

But, with all that, I still have hopes there are still some talented and 
possibly wealthy theosophical heroes around who might crawl out of the woodwork 
and give us a helping hand. :-)

So, whether or not any of these pictures ever gets produced is anyone's 
guess, and must be left to the workings of karma. I have a suspicion that the 
Masters are waiting for this crazy world to collapse either by its own weight or 
by some sort of natural or self induced catastrophy before doing anything -- So 
I'm content to just patiently watch and wait, and see what happens. Should be 
a great show in itself. 

Best regards,

Leon


In a message dated 04/16/05 11:22:58 PM, silva_cass@yahoo.com writes:

>Dear Iain,
Dear Iain,
Leon is not asking for money but selling a product, its up to the public 
whether they want to invest in it or not. I think it is best to keep "big 
business" out of it as much as possible, as they demand their pound of flesh. By 
floating a company on the stock market, purchasing stock in that movie, gives the 
producers the artistic license they need to tell the story how they want to, 
and if the investor believes in the product and it succeeds it will give them 
dividends, if not, they are, at least investing their money in a project they 
feel worthwhile.
Regards
Cass
Iain wrote:

It would be wrong to ask for money, thats for movie producers to do, 
Government Grants, product endorsements have been arround since the film 
industry was founded.There is nothing stopping donations, get comanies 
involved like Yves Sant laurant Power tools, Exon Oil, they give a slick 
performance!! Armani concrete products, If that fails try the mafia!!
cheers Iain
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "christinaleestemaker" 
To: 
Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 9:44 PM
Subject: Theos-World Re: Blavatsky Movie - Hollywood style


>
>
> Iain, what do you think of this club here, all volunteers.
> With occult business it is not allowed to ask for money!!!!
> So ,maybe an idea?
> Christina
>
>
>
> --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Iain" wrote:
>> dear Mauri for a successful movie dont confuse the issue with facts
> we need
>> blockbusters I think Tom Hanks for Col Olcott
>> Arnie Scwartzeniger for K.H. Sly Stalone as M. Jodie Foster for
> AB, Md
>> Columb..Maddonna. Mr Columb Sean Penn. Cant wait that lenth of time
> for M
>> Jackson to play CWL any suggestions for a replacement? We need to
> find some
>> cheap tigers/lions for the fight scenes any contacts with zoos Etc
> anything
>> thats half alive will do. Is Clarence that cross eyed lion still on
> the go I
>> liked that one when he was in Daktari in the 1960's. we also need
> an
>> iceberg, the one from TITANIC should do that went down well!! Can
> we get
>> Shrek in for a couple of shots, keeps the kids interested.Need to
> do more
>> work of the heavy bed scenes, Need to get the custume people to get
> acurate
>> designs, can we get nylon flannels?Product Sponsors need their
> stuff
>> promoted in the film, we need to find a way to get the Acme Digital
> Alarm
>> Clocks in full view, also Gucci Computers ,We also need the Busby
> Berkley
>> Girls for the dance sequence, we can pass that off as a dream
> sequence. of
>> course every thing is done IN THE BEST POSSIBLE TASTE!!!! Bring on
> the empty
>> horses.
>> S Goldwyn ( cheers Iain)
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Mauri" 
>> To: 
>> Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 10:08 AM
>> Subject: Re: Theos-World Re: Blavatsky Movie - Hollywood style
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Me too. So far have a tentative first
>> > chapter for a novel that opens on a
>> > mountain in Tibet. I've been thinking
>> > in terms of creating dramatic
>> > adventure/jsuspense fiction (with
>> > visuals for a possible movie version)
>> > interspersed with sprinklings of
>> > historical fact. I figure that with
>> > characters (out of real life, no less!)
>> > like HPB, Masters, Olcott, Sinnet,
>> > Coulombs, etc, how could such a book or
>> > movie fail to be a blockbuster???
>> >
>> > Speculatively,
>> > Mauri
>> >
>> > leonmaurer@a... wrote:
>> >> We've been working on it since 1975, and Bates would be a good
> candidate
>> >> for
>> >> the lead role -- but have yet to find a suitable script that
> would make a
>> >> good
>> >> movie for theatrical release, or even a stage play suitable for
> Broadway.
>> >> As
>> >> for who would play Judge, Olcott, Besant Leadbeater, KH, M,
> etc. --
>> >> that's
>> >> all up for grabs depending on the story (and the budget) -- 
> which could
>> >> be
>> >> limited to any portion of HPB's adventurous life or a full epic
>> >> biographical
>> >> approach. Problem is maintaining an underlying pure
> theosophical
>> >> philosophical
>> >> basis that would "entertain," "teach" subliminally or
> metaphorically, and
>> >> awaken
>> >> interest in theosophy -- without an obvious New Age "message"
> that would
>> >> trigger a religious or political backlash. For our professional
>> >> interest, a
>> >> suitable picture would have to have the same character and big
> screen
>> >> impact as Star
>> >> Wars, the Matrix, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Master and
> Commander,
>> >> etc.
>> >> -- so as to attract the largest audience possible. All ideas
> from
>> >> story-line
>> >> and development to preproduction financing welcome.
>> >>
>> >> Leon H. Maurer,
>> >> Exec Producer
>> >> Uniworld Artists Productions



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