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Motion-picture show

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 film affiche
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 by Elliott McGrath

Product
companies

ReelWorksStudios
Movie Guardian
Distributed past Fathom Events

Release engagement

 October 2, 2018

Running time

 120 minutes
State United states
Budget $ii 1000000
Box office $671,198

The Trump Prophecy (also known as The Trump Prophecy: A Vocalization of Hope; A Motion of Prayer )[1] is a 2018 Christian drama motion-picture show based on a story by Orlando-based retired firefighter Marking Taylor that he named "The Commander-in-Chief Prophecy". It is a collaboration betwixt ReelWorksStudios and Freedom University's Cinematic Arts program, and is the schoolhouse'due south second involvement in a theatrically released motion film after another Christian motion picture, Extraordinary (2017).[two] ReelWorksStudios is owned past Rick Eldridge, who produced the motion-picture show, and the school's Cinematic Arts department is handled by Stephen Schultze, the pic's director.

The motion picture stars Chris Nelson as Taylor, who suffers from mail service-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after a house fire that kills a immature boy (Landon Starns). In April 2011, later on a prayer from his married woman (Karen Boles), he is told past God that Donald Trump would one mean solar day become president of the United States. By the time near the 2016 election, Mary Colbert (Paulette Todd) learns about the message and starts a national prayer chain to make God's wish of Trump becoming president come true.

There are two parts of The Trump Prophecy: the narrative role about Taylor'due south experiences that makes up around three quarters of the film, and an interview segment with well-known speakers in the evangelical and bourgeois circumvolve of the The states.

Described by Vox as a depiction of Christian nationalism in the United States, The Trump Prophecy was released in a time when the idea that God was responsible for Trump winning the ballot was shared by several evangelical leaders like Franklin Graham, Richard State, 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 moving picture garnered negative reviews from critics.

The Trump Prophecy's producers denied whatsoever political motive behind the moving picture. Still, it was viewed by some Christian experts, picture critics, and Freedom Academy students as political propaganda. Facebook blocked advertisements for the film for beingness political, and a Liberty University student started an online petition trying to terminate the film that was signed by more than than two,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 then, which prompts his dr. (Todd McLaren) to diagnose him every bit having post-traumatic stress disorder. Yet, he is not taking his prescribed medication and retires his position equally firewoman.

Taylor spends the side by side six years descending into his PTSD-infused situation, facing hypersomnia and nightmares about being taken hostage past a fire demon from hell (Darrell Nelson) while watching television to numb the illness. Mary Jo notices these episodes and prays to God to help her husband; the prayer works, as Mark dreams about a glowing orb that explodes electrical energy onto him. While hearing Donald Trump on tv set news, Taylor receives a message from God, which he writes down in a periodical, informing him, "You lot're hearing the voice of president [sic]." By the time of the 2012 election, Taylor hopes God's wish will be fulfilled. However, Trump doesn't make it every bit 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 U.s. presidential election, when he shares his writings with his doctor, Don Colbert (Don Brooks) and his wife, Mary (Paulette Todd). Mary notices a "rhythm of truth" when reading them and builds up a national prayer chain and so that Trump volition be president and, in plow, Taylor will be relieved of his disorder. She obtains participants by calling others via telephone and instructs them to use a shofar in order to increment the chances of Trump winning the election.

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

Cast [edit]

  • Chris Nelson, a theater instructor at Liberty University,[4] as Marking Taylor, a retired firefighter with PTSD who, in 2011, was told past God that businessman Donald Trump would become president.
  • Paulette Todd as Mary Colbert, who starts a national prayer phone call service to fulfill God's wish to Taylor of making Trump president
  • Karen Boles as Mary Jo Taylor, Mark'southward wife and a erstwhile burn down dispatcher
  • Don Brooks as Dr. Don Colbert, Mary Colbert's husband who is treating Mark Taylor
  • Michael Johnson as Dr. Vander, some other one of Mark's doctors
  • Darrell Nelson as Mark's granddad and the fire demon that repeatedly appears in Taylor'south nightmares
  • Paul Stober as the chief of the fire department Marker Taylor worked for
  • Landon Starns every bit the young boy who dies in a house fire in 2005, a tragedy that traumatizes Marker Taylor to the point that he has frequent nightmares almost information technology
  • Rachel Behrmann as a heroin-fond woman who starts the housefire past blow
  • Sabrina Nelson as the immature boy's sister
  • Todd McLaren as a family medico who diagnoses Marker with PTSD
  • Luis Vazquez and Scotty Curlee as Taylor's firefighting colleagues
  • Andy Geffken, Denise Thomas, and Austin Russell equally D.J., Billye Brim, and George respectively, three of the many people Mary Colbert calls in getting participants for the prayer movement
  • Michele Bachmann, David Barton, Lance Wallnau, and William M. Boykin announced as interviewees at the end of the film
  • Donald Trump as himself (archival footage). The idiot box footage used for The Trump Prophecy was from CNN interview with him by John Male monarch on April 28, 2011.[5]

Background [edit]

Donald Trump's official 2017 White House portrait. The Trump Prophecy is based on an Orlando firefighter's claim of receiving a bulletin from God in 2011 predicting Trump'southward presidency.

Marker Taylor, a retired Orlando-based firefighter that the movie follows,[6] has claimed many prophecies on platforms like YouTube[seven] and his book The Trump Prophecies: The Amazing True Story of the Human being Who Saw Tomorrow... and What He Says Is Coming Next (2017), released by Defender Publishing on Independence Day 2017.[8] His claims accept been described past professional writers as "radical" conspiracy theories[7] and "outlandish".[9] The Trump Prophecy is nearly ane of Taylor's prophecies, which he named "The Commander in Chief Prophecy".[10] The prophecy was that on April 28, 2011, while listening to a goggle box interview with American businessman Donald Trump, he heard God say that "yous're hearing the vocalism of a president" and that a stronger human relationship between the The states and State of israel will occur in the future.[10]

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

Product [edit]

On Thanksgiving Day in 2017, Rick Eldridge, a picture show producer and possessor of the Charlotte, Northward Carolina-based studio ReelWorks Studios, pitched the idea of a picture adaptation of Taylor's book to Stephan Schultze, who was the executive managing director of the Liberty University'south Cinematic Arts group.[13] The program had previously been involved in the making of five characteristic films, as it attempted to incorporate one full-length movie every year into its curriculum.[13] I of its past projects, Extraordinary (2017), was released in 600 theaters nationwide, making it the offset film in the U.s.a. to be both theatrically distributed and produced past schoolhouse students.[14] The Cinematic Arts program first announced a flick adaptation of the real-life Taylor's book The Trump Prophecies (2017) on Jan 26, 2018; it revealed that it was going to be named Commander and accept its theatrical release date be in October.[two]

The Trump Prophecy is a product of Rick Eldridge'due south ReelWorks Studios, in cooperation with the picture department of Liberty University, the evangelical Christian school founded past Jerry Falwell. It was directed by Stephan Schultze, the head of Liberty University's film program, and made with the assistance of many of the school'south film students.[12] [fifteen] [4] The film was made by 63 students, equally well as schoolhouse staff,[16] and served as a spring semester project for the students, as it was shot from March to Apr 2018 in Lynchburg and Bedford, Virginia.[13] $i one thousand thousand was raised past Eldridge for the film'south production, while another 1000000 was used for postal service-production and distribution,[4] totaling the budget to $2 million.[15] Eldridge, who had a career equally a musician earlier working in film, wrote "The Greater Good," the film'southward theme vocal.[11]

Concepts [edit]

The Trump Prophecy's official printing release marketed the motion picture as "an inspirational message of Hope, highlighting the vast beauty and greatness of The Usa [and] its electoral procedure."[iii] Vox journalist Tara Isabella Burton labeled The Trump Prophecy as a true portrait of Christian nationalism in the United States.[17]

The film'southward 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 world must turn Christian in club for the Second Coming to occur.[17] Several evangelicals suggest Trump's moving of the Israeli embassy, which is heavily praised past those interviewed in the end of the moving picture, is a pace towards fulfilling the dominion theology.[17] Some of the film's interviewees, similar Bachmann, Wallnau, and Barton, are NAR members, and the real-life Don Colbert has regularly appeared on shows run by NAR assembly, 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 flick informs its audience not to resist Trump equally doing so would disrespect the real potency of God; the same type of reasoning has been used by people shut to Trump, such every bit Jeff Sessions, Paula White, and Robert Jeffress, to excuse its actions, such equally the family separation policy.[17] The motion picture references passages in the Bible nearly Cyrus the Great, which many Christian fans of Trump take compared him to.[17] [seven] The movie'southward authority element extends into its presentation of domestic families, where a female submits to the permissions and demands of a male; Colbert doesn't start the Trump prayer concatenation until her husband gives permission to do and so, and Mary Jo Taylor is very submissive to her husband, to the signal where she gave up her fire dispatching chore.[17]

The motion-picture show'southward praise for Trump's action 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 but depiction of his grapheme is that he doesn't share the same evangelical values every bit nigh of his supporters. When Mary Colbert asks other evangelicals to participate in the prayer chain, they acknowledge to not existence fans of the Republican candidate.[17] [7] This religious disconnect and the message of God that Mark Taylor receives indicates that Christians are voting for Trump not considering of his qualities, simply considering they are following the person God chose to lead the country.[17] [vii]

Art lecturer and writer Emily Pothast categorized The Trump Prophecy as "an accidental advert for a quasi-socialist utopia", as information technology shows American public sector workers like Mark Taylor being very wealthy and having easy and heavily encouraged access to health care by the fourth dimension they retire.[vii]

Release [edit]

Using promotion from channels similar Fox News Radio and The Bonfire, and evangelical leaders such equally Jim Bakker,[9] The Trump Prophecy was screened by Fathom Events in 1,200 theaters throughout the U.S. on Oct two and 4, 2018.[17] Eldridge claimed that his expectations of The Trump Prophecy'due south commercial performance were exceeded.[18] Information technology was number 22 on the weekly box office chart on the calendar week of its release, grossing $671,198.[xix] Co-ordinate to Eldridge, the flick garnered 18,000 pre-sold tickets and, as of Oct iii, 2018, more than than double the ticket sales.[eighteen] While screenings in locations such as Union Square, Manhattan, and Lynchburg, Virginia were reported by sources to accept very small attendance,[17] [20] Eldridge reported that there 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 audience response towards The Trump Prophecy was mediocre at best,[18] [xx] professional journalists were much harsher on the picture show.[17] [vii] [five] Not including opinions nearly the moving picture'due south political undertones, Pothast was disappointed that information technology was not every bit "weird and unhinged" as she hoped,[7] and Burton criticized the filler that made up "[around] 75 minutes" of the film, such as scenes of discussions between Marker and Mary Taylor and an unresolved subplot involving Mark selling his boat.[17] However, she besides wrote that the film is essential to watch in social club for non-Christians to learn the reality of American Christian nationalism.[17] A review from The Film Magazine was a detailed summary of technical bug of the movie, non only of the amount of filler just as well the "shallow and pedantic" dialogue, poor acting, "amateur" and "dull" shot composition, and the unintentionally funny visual effects.[5]

Controversy [edit]

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

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

Fox News reported on June 21, 2018 that Facebook blocked ads from ReelWorks Studios promoting The Trump Prophecy for meeting the social media platform's definition of "political" content,[16] although Eldridge and the moving-picture show'due south male person lead, Chris Nelson, reasoned that Facebook judged the ads but by their inclusion of the discussion Trump.[xvi] [x]

Quickly after The Trump Prophecy'southward January 2018 announcement, a Freedom University pupil began a petition on Change.org objecting to the motion picture.[two] [23] The petition'due south business organization was that it endorsed a man who performed actions in his function that went against Jesus' instruction to aid marginalized groups of people.[4] Information technology besides suggested students would have a harder time finding piece of work in more liberal-aligned companies.[20] By the time of the film's premiere on Oct 2, the petition garnered 2,286 signees.[20]

When The Trump Prophecy was released, critical reviews were published that expressed disgust with the pic, as they were alarmed by the fact that Liberty University, a powerful evangelical company, invested in a movie that presented a agonizing message[17] [24] and legitimized the beliefs of a "radical" conspiracy theorist like Taylor.[7] The Film Magazine described information technology as "a glorification of ignoring real solutions to mental affliction that takes a turn into political propaganda."[v]

The producers of The Trump Prophecy denied whatever controversial political motive behind the picture show.[sixteen] [13] While Eldridge predicted the backfire The Trump Prophecy received,[10] he explained that the film was meant to ask "a divided nation" to pray for potency because humans are "called" to do and then co-ordinate to the Bible.[16]

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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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