Messages for 6205 AD

I remember after my movie Premiere of “Sex Chocolate & Zombie Republicans” ten years ago, one guy in the audience said, “I loved the movie overall, but why do the Zombies drool green gel first, then their faces turn white, while later the zombie faces turn white right away… but they never drool the green gel – they just growl? Were they part of the undead? – I’m confused.”

Hmmm… I think I probably told him that as the Zombies are exposed to air for a few days in the summer heat, they start to dry up (but actually the sale on the case of lime jello expired before we shot those last scenes.) I guess the point is that lots of things happened in this movie: Right wing zombies crash into a house during a slumber party – one rips the framed bill of rights off the wall and eats it… a conservative little old lady eats a VHS tape with a provocative picture on the cover, slurping the tape like spaghetti. One zombie kidnaps the Latina maid to take her back over the border before her fiancé arrives. In the meantime, there’s a Right Wing BBQ, where they burn books instead of burgers - books that the religious right doesn’t happen to approve of… like those crazy science books that seem to think the planet is over 6000 years old! Then, the architect father (played by me) designing a park, goes “rabid,” and turns it into a prison instead …Then, the Right wing zombies try to force their ideas on the entire world. (Sound familiar to anything going on right here today???)

Now, most people that see the movie “Sex, Chocolate & Zombie Republicans” realize that it’s not about “Republicans” – it’s not really a political piece. It’s a satirical look at right wing fanatics – their ways, not their beliefs. Now, I’m not saying anything negative about right wing fanatics – I adore ultra conservative folks! I’m even not disagreeing with their belief that we coexisted with dinosaurs and Noah saves them all from the storm in his Ark. There are over 700 named species of dinosaurs x 2= at least 1400 dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes on Noah’s Ark with all the other animal pairs in the world, but who knows? Maybe Noah just built a pretty big ship. Let’s say 1400 dinosaurs and all other animals on the planet got along for 40 days and 40 nights on a boat… a little tough, but could work, right? Okay, I’ll have a little faith!

What the movie is about is the right wing fanatics’ insistence on censoring science books that disagree with them. Even though scientists could be absolutely crazy to think the world might have been formed over 6000 years ago in any more than seven 24-hour days, should these wacky off-the-wall scientific notions like that be censored? That “Lucy” skull wasn’t even real – it was probably a prop left behind from some low budget horror movie!

“Sex, Chocolate & Zombie Republicans” did have more of a message than a lot of my films. Plus, in a few hundred years, when this planet Earth gets to be 6,205 years old, maybe our great-great grandchildren will look back and shake their heads in dismay, right?