#marjoe

[periware]

PranksterPunch

For @pbjr

[oyvinja]

snitches get stitches

[theoscarsproject]

Marjoe (1972).Part documentary, part expose, this film follows one-time child evangelist Marjoe Gortner on the "church tent" Revivalist circuit, commenting on the showmanship of Evangelism and "the religion business", prior to the start of "televangelism".

Gosh, this feels in a lot of ways like the precursor to a lot of our modern day documentaries. As the synopsis says, it’s as much an expose as it is a documentary – a beckon behind the curtain – and it really is a fascinating look at a child born into a con who both benefits from it, plays his role, and reviles it. It’s rough viewing (and too long there at the end), but it’s good viewing too, and worth checking out. 7.5/10.

[periware]

YO NEW KIRBY SHIP IDEA HEAR ME OUT

Marx x Knuckle Joe

Their ship name would be Marjoe or PranksterPunch

Cute goofy jester whose soul is a eldritch horror x tough ass tough guy who’s whooped ass.

Fighter x Prankster

ya’ll gonna hear me out on this ship right?

[football-in-tuxedos]

The latest episode of The Biggest Night in Podcasting went up on youtube and spotify yesterday, I just failed to post about it. I was joined by Vel and Conor to discuss Marjoe, the documentary about a pentecostal preacher who was forced to start preaching at 4 years old, and also didn't believe in god. Did me posting it kill James Dobson? No probably not, but I choose to believe it did. Check it out, I think it's one of our best episodes.

[oyvinja]

[britvarama]

[tam--lin]

I spoke with the film's co-director Sarah Kernochan about why the Academy Award–winning doc was lost for three decades, and how it was found

Born in 1944, the film's subject, Marjoe Gortner, was a child star of the Evangelical Christian circuit who became an ordained minister at the age of four. (His parents derived his name from a combination of Mary and Joseph.) Throughout his childhood, he officiated weddings, delivered theatrical sermons, and earned his parents an estimated $3 million, none of which he ever saw. [...]

Marjoe returned to the Evangelical tent-revival circuit in his 20s, capitalizing on his adolescent fame. Marjoe admits in the film that he was never a believer in Christ as an adult or a child, and by his late 20s he began to feel guilty for profiting from the hellfire and damnation services he believed were psychologically harmful to people.

(Marjoe is free on Tubi at the moment: you can watch it here.)