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The Trump Prophecy
A firefighter and three other people; a large building in a wooded area; praying hands with the colors of the American flag

The Trump Prophecy motion picture poster
Directed by Stephan Schultze
Written by
  • Rick Eldridge
  • Jimmy Hager
Produced by
  • Scotty Curlee
  • Rick Eldridge
Starring
  • Chris Nelson
  • Paulette Todd
  • Karen Boles
  • Don Brooks
Cinematography Micah Johnson
Edited by Kevin Harris
Music past Elliott McGrath

Production
companies

ReelWorksStudios
Picture Guardian
Distributed by Fathom Events

Release date

 October ii, 2018

Running time

 120 minutes
Country United States
Budget $2 1000000
Box office $671,198

The Trump Prophecy (as well known equally The Trump Prophecy: A Phonation of Hope; A Move of Prayer )[one] is a 2018 Christian drama film based on a story by Orlando-based retired fire-eater Marking Taylor that he named "The Commander-in-Chief Prophecy". It is a collaboration between ReelWorksStudios and Liberty University'south Cinematic Arts program, and is the schoolhouse'due south second involvement in a theatrically released motion picture later another Christian movie, Boggling (2017).[ii] ReelWorksStudios is owned past Rick Eldridge, who produced the motion-picture show, and the school'south Cinematic Arts department is handled by Stephen Schultze, the flick's director.

The film stars Chris Nelson every bit Taylor, who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after a house fire that kills a immature boy (Landon Starns). In April 2011, after a prayer from his wife (Karen Boles), he is told past God that Donald Trump would one mean solar day become president of the United States. By the time virtually the 2016 election, Mary Colbert (Paulette Todd) learns about the bulletin and starts a national prayer chain to brand God'due south wish of Trump becoming president come true.

There are two parts of The Trump Prophecy: the narrative part about Taylor'southward experiences that makes up around iii quarters of the film, and an interview segment with well-known speakers in the evangelical and conservative circle of the United States.

Described by Vox as a depiction of Christian nationalism in the United States, The Trump Prophecy was released in a fourth dimension when the thought that God was responsible for Trump winning the election was shared past several evangelical leaders like Franklin Graham, Richard Land, and Robert Jeffress. It was screened in theaters only on the days of October 2 and October 4, 2018, landing at number 22 on the weekly American box office chart with $671,198 grossed. Making less than its $2,000,000 budget, the film garnered negative reviews from critics.

The Trump Prophecy's producers denied any political motive backside the film. Even so, it was viewed by some Christian experts, film critics, and Liberty University students equally political propaganda. Facebook blocked advertisements for the flick for being political, and a Freedom University student started an online petition trying to stop the motion-picture show that was signed past more than 2,000 people.

Plot [edit]

In 2005, Mark Taylor (Chris Nelson), an American Christian firefighter married to a fire dispatcher named Mary Jo (Karen Boles), carries a dead young boy (Landon Starns) out of a crackhouse fire. He has had fever dreams relating to the incident since and then, which prompts his medico (Todd McLaren) to diagnose him as having post-traumatic stress disorder. Withal, he is not taking his prescribed medication and retires his position as firefighter.

Taylor spends the next six years descending into his PTSD-infused situation, facing hypersomnia and nightmares near being taken hostage by a burn demon from hell (Darrell Nelson) while watching telly to numb the disease. Mary Jo notices these episodes and prays to God to help her hubby; the prayer works, every bit Marking dreams most a glowing orb that explodes electric energy onto him. While hearing Donald Trump on television news, Taylor receives a message from God, which he writes downward in a journal, informing him, "Yous're hearing the voice of president [sic]." By the time of the 2012 ballot, Taylor hopes God's wish volition be fulfilled. Yet, Trump doesn't brand it as a nominee and Barack Obama wins instead.

Taylor continues journaling accounts of his dreams and hearings from God up until the start of the 2016 Usa presidential election, when he shares his writings with his physician, Don Colbert (Don Brooks) and his wife, Mary (Paulette Todd). Mary notices a "rhythm of truth" when reading them and builds upward a national prayer chain so that Trump will exist president and, in turn, Taylor volition be relieved of his disorder. She obtains participants by calling others via phone and instructs them to use a shofar in lodge to increase the chances of Trump winning the ballot.

Despite several news reports of the unlikelihood of Trump being elected, the miracle occurs as he wins, leaving Mark and Mary Taylor happy and relieved. Worldwide coverage of Mary Colbert'southward shofar group influences Israelis to start their own group of people blowing the horn. The Trump Prophecy ends with interviews of "a console of earth leaders,"[3] those being notable conservatives and evangelicals, answering political questions.

Cast [edit]

  • Chris Nelson, a theater teacher at Liberty University,[4] as Marking Taylor, a retired fire-eater with PTSD who, in 2011, was told by God that businessman Donald Trump would get president.
  • Paulette Todd as Mary Colbert, who starts a national prayer call service to fulfill God'due south wish to Taylor of making Trump president
  • Karen Boles every bit Mary Jo Taylor, Marker'due south wife and a former fire dispatcher
  • Don Brooks every bit Dr. Don Colbert, Mary Colbert's husband who is treating Marker Taylor
  • Michael Johnson equally Dr. Vander, some other one of Mark's doctors
  • Darrell Nelson as Mark's gramps and the fire demon that repeatedly appears in Taylor'due south nightmares
  • Paul Stober as the chief of the fire section Mark Taylor worked for
  • Landon Starns as the young male child who dies in a business firm fire in 2005, a tragedy that traumatizes Marking Taylor to the betoken that he has frequent nightmares about information technology
  • Rachel Behrmann equally a heroin-fond adult female who starts the housefire by accident
  • Sabrina Nelson as the young male child's sister
  • Todd McLaren equally a family physician who diagnoses Marker with PTSD
  • Luis Vazquez and Scotty Curlee as Taylor's firefighting colleagues
  • Andy Geffken, Denise Thomas, and Austin Russell as D.J., Billye Brim, and George respectively, 3 of the many people Mary Colbert calls in getting participants for the prayer movement
  • Michele Bachmann, David Barton, Lance Wallnau, and William G. Boykin appear every bit interviewees at the end of the motion picture
  • Donald Trump as himself (archival footage). The television receiver footage used for The Trump Prophecy was from CNN interview with him by John Male monarch on April 28, 2011.[5]

Groundwork [edit]

Donald Trump's official 2017 White House portrait. The Trump Prophecy is based on an Orlando fire fighter's claim of receiving a message from God in 2011 predicting Trump'due south presidency.

Mark Taylor, a retired Orlando-based firewoman that the motion-picture show follows,[half dozen] has claimed many prophecies on platforms like YouTube[7] and his book The Trump Prophecies: The Astonishing True Story of the Man Who Saw Tomorrow... and What He Says Is Coming Side by side (2017), released by Defender Publishing on Independence Day 2017.[8] His claims have been described by professional writers as "radical" conspiracy theories[7] and "outlandish".[ix] The Trump Prophecy is about ane of Taylor's prophecies, which he named "The Commander in Principal Prophecy".[10] The prophecy was that on April 28, 2011, while listening to a telly interview with American businessman Donald Trump, he heard God say that "you're hearing the vocalisation of a president" and that a stronger relationship between the The states and Israel will occur in the future.[10]

Shortly before the 2016 election, Mary Colbert, an international ministry building networker, met Taylor because her husband, Dr. Don Colbert, was treating him.[eleven] Taylor gave her the journals of God'southward messages, and she felt they needed to be spread around to the world; thus, she started a phone-based prayer chain that garnered approximately 100,000 callers per day, a number and so high it shut down 2 servers.[11] Trump won, and after the 2016 ballot, numerous evangelical leaders such as Richard Land, Franklin Graham, and Robert Jeffress fabricated statements that God was responsible for the Republican nominee's victory.[12] According to HuffPost, the fact that a big Christian university like Liberty University would produce a picture show promoting the idea is an indicator of how widespread it was at the time of its release.[12]

Production [edit]

On Thanksgiving Day in 2017, Rick Eldridge, a film producer and owner of the Charlotte, N Carolina-based studio ReelWorks Studios, pitched the idea of a film adaptation of Taylor's book to Stephan Schultze, who was the executive director of the Freedom University'due south Cinematic Arts group.[13] The plan had previously been involved in the making of five feature films, as it attempted to incorporate one full-length movie every year into its curriculum.[xiii] One of its past projects, Extraordinary (2017), was released in 600 theaters nationwide, making it the first picture in the United States to be both theatrically distributed and produced by school students.[14] The Cinematic Arts program first announced a motion-picture show adaptation of the existent-life Taylor's volume The Trump Prophecies (2017) on January 26, 2018; it revealed that it was going to be named Commander and have its theatrical release engagement be in October.[2]

The Trump Prophecy is a product of Rick Eldridge's ReelWorks Studios, in cooperation with the motion-picture show department of Liberty University, the evangelical Christian schoolhouse founded by Jerry Falwell. It was directed by Stephan Schultze, the caput of Liberty Academy's moving picture program, and made with the aid of many of the school'due south film students.[12] [fifteen] [4] The film was fabricated by 63 students, as well every bit school staff,[16] and served every bit a leap semester project for the students, as it was shot from March to Apr 2018 in Lynchburg and Bedford, Virginia.[13] $1 million was raised by Eldridge for the moving picture's product, while another million was used for post-production and distribution,[4] totaling the budget to $ii million.[15] Eldridge, who had a career as a musician earlier working in film, wrote "The Greater Skillful," the picture's theme song.[eleven]

Concepts [edit]

The Trump Prophecy'southward official press release marketed the film as "an inspirational message of Hope, highlighting the vast dazzler and greatness of The United States [and] its electoral process."[3] Vocalism announcer Tara Isabella Burton labeled The Trump Prophecy equally a true portrait of Christian nationalism in the United states of america.[17]

The pic's focus on prophecy comes from the ideas of miracles and prophecies by a group of Pentecostal evangelicals named the New Apostolic Reformation.[17] The NAR follows a dominion theology, which states that the globe must plow Christian in club for the Second Coming to occur.[17] Several evangelicals suggest Trump's moving of the Israeli embassy, which is heavily praised by those interviewed in the cease of the film, is a step towards fulfilling the dominion theology.[17] Some of the film'south interviewees, like Bachmann, Wallnau, and Barton, are NAR members, and the existent-life Don Colbert has regularly appeared on shows run by NAR associates, including Ken Copeland and Jim Bakker.[17]

A major theme in the film is its promotion of dominance and hierarchy.[17] Burton opines that the pic informs its audience not to resist Trump every bit doing and so would boldness the real authority of God; the same blazon of reasoning has been used by people shut to Trump, such as Jeff Sessions, Paula White, and Robert Jeffress, to excuse its actions, such as the family unit separation policy.[17] The motion picture references passages in the Bible about Cyrus the Nifty, which many Christian fans of Trump have compared him to.[17] [7] The movie's authority element extends into its presentation of domestic families, where a female submits to the permissions and demands of a male person; Colbert doesn't offset the Trump prayer chain until her husband gives permission to do so, and Mary Jo Taylor is very submissive to her husband, to the point where she gave up her fire dispatching job.[17]

The film's praise for Trump'due south activeness in office is only brought up in its interview segment, where they applaud his relocation of the Israeli embassy to Jerusalem.[17] The narrative rarely presents how fit he is to become president; the only depiction of his grapheme is that he doesn't share the same evangelical values as nigh of his supporters. When Mary Colbert asks other evangelicals to participate in the prayer chain, they admit to not being fans of the Republican candidate.[17] [seven] This religious disconnect and the message of God that Marker Taylor receives indicates that Christians are voting for Trump not because of his qualities, but considering they are following the person God chose to lead the country.[17] [vii]

Fine art lecturer and writer Emily Pothast categorized The Trump Prophecy as "an accidental advertisement for a quasi-socialist utopia", as it shows American public sector workers like Mark Taylor being very wealthy and having like shooting fish in a barrel and heavily encouraged access to health care by the time they retire.[seven]

Release [edit]

Using promotion from channels similar Play tricks News Radio and The Blaze, and evangelical leaders such as Jim Bakker,[9] The Trump Prophecy was screened by Fathom Events in i,200 theaters throughout the U.S. on October 2 and 4, 2018.[17] Eldridge claimed that his expectations of The Trump Prophecy'south commercial functioning were exceeded.[18] It was number 22 on the weekly box office chart on the week of its release, grossing $671,198.[xix] According to Eldridge, the film garnered 18,000 pre-sold tickets and, as of October 3, 2018, more than double the ticket sales.[xviii] While screenings in locations such as Union Square, Manhattan, and Lynchburg, Virginia were reported by sources to have very pocket-sized attendance,[17] [xx] Eldridge reported that in that location were "quite a few screenings across the land that were sold out."[21] The Trump Prophecy was issued on DVD by GVN Releasing on March 12, 2019.[22]

Reception [edit]

While audition response towards The Trump Prophecy was mediocre at best,[18] [20] professional journalists were much harsher on the film.[17] [7] [five] Not including opinions nigh the flick's political undertones, Pothast was disappointed that information technology was not as "weird and unhinged" as she hoped,[vii] and Burton criticized the filler that fabricated up "[around] 75 minutes" of the motion picture, such as scenes of discussions between Mark and Mary Taylor and an unresolved subplot involving Mark selling his boat.[17] However, she as well wrote that the film is essential to watch in order for not-Christians to acquire the reality of American Christian nationalism.[17] A review from The Motion-picture show Magazine was a detailed summary of technical problems of the movie, not only of the amount of filler but as well the "shallow and pedantic" dialogue, poor acting, "amateur" and "tedious" shot limerick, and the unintentionally funny visual effects.[v]

Controversy [edit]

Concerns about The Trump Prophecy's effects on American politics came from Christian pundits such as Michael L. Brownish (left) and Jim Wallis (right).

Due to the overwhelming back up of Trump from Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. and the movie's release date being scheduled only a month earlier the midterm elections,[13] Christian experts such equally Samuel Smith, Michael L. Brownish, and Jim Wallis expressed concern about the flick's possible negative furnishings on the American political climate before it was distributed.[thirteen] Dark-brown, who believed in religious prophecy, worried that the motion picture would inspire evangelical viewers to take on a form of "hyper-patriotism" that compared America and its leadership to God,[thirteen] and Wallis called the message of the movie "heretical".[4]

Play a trick on News reported on June 21, 2018 that Facebook blocked ads from ReelWorks Studios promoting The Trump Prophecy for meeting the social media platform'due south definition of "political" content,[16] although Eldridge and the picture'south male atomic number 82, Chris Nelson, reasoned that Facebook judged the ads but by their inclusion of the discussion Trump.[xvi] [10]

Quickly after The Trump Prophecy's January 2018 declaration, a Liberty University student began a petition on Change.org objecting to the film.[ii] [23] The petition's concern was that it endorsed a man who performed actions in his role that went against Jesus' educational activity to help marginalized groups of people.[4] It besides suggested students would take a harder time finding work in more liberal-aligned companies.[20] Past the time of the motion picture's premiere on October 2, the petition garnered 2,286 signees.[20]

When The Trump Prophecy was released, critical reviews were published that expressed disgust with the moving-picture show, as they were alarmed by the fact that Freedom University, a powerful evangelical company, invested in a picture that presented a disturbing bulletin[17] [24] and legitimized the beliefs of a "radical" conspiracy theorist like Taylor.[vii] The Film Magazine described it as "a glorification of ignoring real solutions to mental illness that takes a turn into political propaganda."[v]

The producers of The Trump Prophecy denied whatever controversial political motive behind the moving picture.[16] [xiii] While Eldridge predicted the backlash The Trump Prophecy received,[10] he explained that the picture was meant to enquire "a divided nation" to pray for authority because humans are "called" to practise so according to the Bible.[16]

References [edit]

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  2. ^ a b c "Liberty's Cinematic Arts Dept. Addresses the "Trump Prophecies" Film". Liberty Champion. February 12, 2018. Retrieved May 13, 2019.
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  4. ^ a b c d e Markoe, Lauren (May 31, 2018). "Did Trump Fulfill a Divine Prophecy? What to Look From a New Freedom University Moving-picture show". The Washington Post . Retrieved June six, 2018.
  5. ^ a b c d Davis, Jacob (Jan 11, 2019). "The Trump Prophecy: A Bigly Boorish Bore". The Film Magazine . Retrieved May 17, 2019.
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  9. ^ a b Sommer, Will (October 6, 2018). "God Gave Us the Donald, 'Firefighter Prophet' Says in Film". The Daily Beast . Retrieved May 16, 2019.
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  12. ^ a b c Kuruvilla, Carol (June 6, 2018). "An Evangelical Academy Is Helping Create A Movie About How Trump Was Chosen By God". HuffPost . Retrieved September 15, 2018.
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  24. ^ J. Dunphy, John (Oct sixteen, 2018). "Dunphy: The book and moving-picture show are as bad". The Telegraph . Retrieved May 17, 2019.

External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • The Trump Prophecy at IMDb
  • The Trump Prophecy at Box Office Mojo
  • The Trump Prophecy at Rotten Tomatoes

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