Moving to other places

Supposing if an earthquake were to hit Hollywood, I actually half expect some people to move in advance if they knew about it but then again there might be others who’d move after the fact as in wanting to go to a safer place avoiding all the pain and trauma that’s hurt them a lot.

Like if you’re a Hollywood actor who lost your friends and family to the earthquake, it becomes way too much for you to bear that grieving is the best thing to do, before moving to another place when calmer. But there’s also the need to make up for things, like say actor loses a lot to the Earthquake.

Then he moves to another place, caring for somebody else to make up for losing so many loved ones that the trauma is understandable.

The City of Fallen Angels?

It would be tempting to rename Los Angeles into Los Demonios because so many people in here are involved in the occult, even if not all LA residents are like this and some are Christians but there is like a toxic connection between Los Angeles, Hollywood, Satanism and the occult (some celebrities do this) and strange cults that Hollywood is going to be spiritually shady either way, anyways.

Not every celebrity is necessarily into those, some are Christians but I’d say a good number of Hollywood actors and actresses are so involved in the occult as to let it bleed on television that I swear an actress’s occult activities would spill into the character she portrays that she is the wolf in sheep’s clothing: leery in the guise of trustworthy. Somebody else said the same things about Michael Landon, it wouldn’t change if it were about Jayne Mansfield.

Same character, same problem, same evil intent as if they are guises of the same character really.

Hollywood Darkness

As for Hollywood being Satanic, though not every denizen is a Satanist and some are Christians but it doesn’t help that a good number of Hollywood denizens distrust Christianity, advocate pagan religions and witchcraft that Hollywood’s bound to be a spiritually toxic place. At large, not every Los Angeles citizen is a Satanist and some are Christians but then again Los Angeles also attracts strange cults is bound to be spiritually suspicious.

To make matters even worse, some Hollywood celebrities are involved in Satanism where the most infamous example being Jayne Mansfield of all things but then again some celebrities consult occultists like psychics to sully things more. James Dean isn’t a Satanist in the formal sense of the word, but if he has used occult means to seemingly contact with the dead then that’s a red flag.

Add celebrities indulging in scientology (another false religion), it’s full of red flags that you’d have to avoid them. Even if New York, Chicago, Salt Lake City (Mormon hotspot) and Seattle aren’t any better, it doesn’t help that Los Angeles tends to attract strange cults that it’s even noted in secular media and it does give credence to Hollywood being contaminated by devilry or at least false faith.

Bad place

Whilst Hollywood isn’t necessarily formally Satanic, it doesn’t help that not only a good number of Hollywood actors are atheist and pagan but also that the place it’s located in (Los Angeles) attracts strange cults and Satanism that it’s bound to be spiritually leery anyways. Bear in mind, not every resident of Los Angeles is necessarily secular as some are pretty religious and pious as it gets.

Even Pentecostalism got its start in California and some Californians are practising Christians as well as those sympathetic to Christianity, but for every genuinely decent person (secular or not) there’s bound to be an air of shadiness in Hollywood where there’s a combination of the grit behind the glamour and probable cult activity that really doesn’t do good for Hollywood’s reputation among Chrisitans.

Even without the Christian suspicion of Hollywood being Satanic, Hollywood is still a pretty shady place where it’s not just about actors being human but also where cult activity and human vice collide. The wages of vice is death, but the gift of life is eternal goodness.

Evil is in the air

Oh boy, some Flash fans will get mad at me if I say this but I have a feeling one of the actresses is severely schizophrenic, raised as a Satanist since babyhood (she might even be really named a version of the Devil’s name) and indulges in acts of paraphilia (bestiality, necrophilia, paedophilia). One of the actors there isn’t just a former Glee actor but also a member of the Church of Satan and into Aleister Crowley (so is she).

Perhaps even worse than that, the actress might be institutionalised for going insane and killing a person in front of the camera. Right after she played the Devil in a short film. The actor will go on to play the Devil in a remake of a film. This one’s called Rosemary’s Baby where the woman gives birth to this child. The person playing his mother is one of the Flash actresses. This film will be a box office hit.

But where associated actors will kill themselves and eventually all hell breaks loose.

Shady Hollywood

Bear in mind not all celebrities do this, let alone for life as some do convert but when it comes to associations with the occult I’m afraid it goes deeper than that and even afflicts those you don’t expect. To put it this way, the programme Glee has been distrusted by Christians and secular conservatives alike for indulging in things they dislike.

It would be a lot creepier if a fan actually caught some of the Glee cast burning Bibles and other holy books. Add to suspicions of demons taking advantage of the most innocuous things, possessing people and causing them to do something if it sounds like a horror film it’s also something other people take very seriously.

Like if some Brazilian celebrities have made deals with the Devil and allude to him, some Brazilians are aware of this. Likewise it would be all the more shocking if some Glee celebrity attends Black Mass. Let’s not forget the late actress Jayne Mansfield was assumed to do Satanism at some point. That it makes it too likely.

Again not all celebrities do this but it doesn’t help that if they’re believed to indulge in occult practises in their free time that it seems it’s a tainted association.

Film Franchises

It’s not that film franchises didn’t exist before. You’ve got Superman, Batman, Shazam, Flash Gordon, Captain America, Dracula and Frankenstein serials back then. Let’s not also forget that films like Robocop and Swamp Thing also begat childrens’ cartoons. So there was media franchising before. Just not to the same extent we’re getting today.

It would be parsimonious to say that it took the mid to late 20th centuries to make film franchising an even bigger phenomenon than it was before. From then on we got Planet of the Apes, Star Wars (itself influenced by Flash Gordon and Dune, which also got a film adaptation and is getting another one now), Jaws, Terminator, Saw, Halloween, Child’s Play, Alien (and Predator), Annabelle, the current Marvel serials and Harry Potter.

Harry Potter would probably be the biggest film franchise relevant to this generation as they grew up with it one way or another. I never really read the books though I technically have one copy myself. But it’s got to be the biggest franchise that my generation grew up with. Popular enough to have other studios trying to buy the rights to adapting said book franchises like Twilight and the Hunger Games.

(Comes to think of it, Universal pretty much did the same thing when it came to riding off on Star Wars’s popularity by adapting its predecessor Dune though it didn’t go well as expected. Similar things could be said about Mortal Instruments.)

Twilight’s even influential enough to pre-empt another successful book turned film franchise, 50 Shades of Grey. That’s how influential Harry Potter is to this generation and somebody else’s gateway drug to fantastical literature. (I think Star Wars probably did similar things to it, itself being a gateway drug to Dune for some, including me.)

I don’t think Hollywood and its ilk will stop making franchises if one story went controversial or something. They’ve been doing this to prose books and comics for so long but because they’re safer to invest in as they already have established followings and conversely speaking, such adaptations help increase fanbases.

I swear even if a controversy were to rock one industry Hollywood pillages, Hollywood will co-opt another to make bank. As it has been before.

Shady Secrets

I think I long suspected that being rich and famous doesn’t stop you from being an idiot or jerk, even some celebrities might realise this. Not to mention when it comes to shady secrets, the more appealing the facade is the more horrifying dark and deep those secrets get. It’s like in Hollywood where for a long time some celebrities were suspected of being queer. Even moreso had homosexuality been criminalised.

Cary Grant was suspected of being gay, so much so that he and his peers had arranged marriages to conceal the odd possibility. (I think love marriage practically more or less begat gay marriage.) It’s still not confirmed whether if he’s gay or not but it does show you how shady secrets can get. It’s like wanting to have the most perfect life as well making oneself and others repress feelings but also going against better parenting advice and certain religions.

Especially if/when they prioritise austerity and greater self-restraint. It’s one thing to appear calm and happy, it’s another to exercise far more self-control in other weak spots like alcoholism and the like. (It’s actually not wrong to spend money on things, especially if they’re useful.) Such a family could be highly abusive, violent or perhaps not as well-adjusted as they make themselves out to be.

Alternately speaking, you could be a genuinely law-abidding citizen trying to do your best but be hated by everybody else. (Rao help if Vlad the Impaler turns out to be in Heaven, thus making him the medieval version of Donald Trump*.) So it seems the shadier the secret, the more surprising it gets. And if the more maligned the person is, the more misunderstood they get especially if it’s something that’s actually good or understandable.

Something like Vlad the Impaler’s fight against Turkish invaders would sit well with Islamophobes when you think about it. Or that Mother Theresa’s far from saintly.

*Donald Trump gets associated with Harry Potter’s Voldemort, Vlad the Impaler’s equated with Dracula.

Gothic Hollywood

Though this isn’t always the case, I suspect my reasoning for why Germany has a large Goth scene has to do with an undercurrent of shadiness in German culture that can also be applied to America’s Los Angeles. Los Angeles was where the American Goth (known as Deathrock) scene emerged. Comes to think of it, it’s really not that much of a stretch. Hollywood’s really shady for many reasons.

Not just for sexism but also paedophilia, sexual harrassment and the like. No wonder why the Hays Code had to be made to make sure Hollywood won’t be making any more debased content until recently. Not to mention if Hollywood’s the epicentre of the US film industry, it would unsurprisingly house horror films too. So there’s that.