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T.D. Jakes Jumping the Broom Interview - Pt 2 - The Potter’s House of Dallas · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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  Speaker 1: What have you learned about yourself as a filmmaker, producer
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  Speaker 1: and actor thus.
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  Speaker 2: Far and the filmmaker I begin to understand that far
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  Speaker 2: different from preaching, films cannot be so medicinal that they're
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  Speaker 2: not entertaining. When you minister a message, the message is
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  Speaker 2: a primary goal. But if you do that in film,
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  Speaker 2: it it comes across as over preaching. The message has
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  Speaker 2: to be far more subtle and take a backseat, to
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  Speaker 2: the back that people don't get off work on Friday
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  Speaker 2: and get a bag of popcorn in a date and
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  Speaker 2: go out to be fussed at or preach that they
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  Speaker 2: want to have a good time. They want to laugh,
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  Speaker 2: they want to have a great evening. But just because
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  Speaker 2: something is humorous doesn't mean that it has to be
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  Speaker 2: void of a point or a theme or an idea.
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  Speaker 2: So for me, it is to find that integration of
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  Speaker 2: message and methodology in such a way that people have
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  Speaker 2: a great time, but they walk away and drive home
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  Speaker 2: and say, is that how you feel about me? It's
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  Speaker 2: fawned the conversation, or you know that touched me in
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  Speaker 2: a special spot provokes a communication between people who often
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  Speaker 2: find it difficult to talk to each other.
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  Speaker 1: Has this new knowledge informed other areas such as the
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  Speaker 1: message you preach for how you reach prospective audiences.
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  Speaker 2: I think the biggest change for me has been watching
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  Speaker 2: other films. I see them totally differently now I know
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  Speaker 2: how they're being shot, I know how the cameras are set.
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  Speaker 2: I noticed the lighting. I noticed how the story is
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  Speaker 2: told in a way that I never did before. I
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  Speaker 2: had certain naiveties that are gone. A great part of
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  Speaker 2: being a part of the film process is sitting in
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  Speaker 2: the audience and watching the audience react to the film
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  Speaker 2: after you've done it. What's amazing is sometimes the thing
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  Speaker 2: you thought they were really going to laugh at they missed,
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  Speaker 2: and the thing you never thought they were going to
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  Speaker 2: laugh at they were broke up about. And it's the
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  Speaker 2: learning process. So you bring all of that information to
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  Speaker 2: the next film. Every experience makes you a little bit
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  Speaker 2: richer and a little bit more fuller than you were before.
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  Speaker 2: And being a minister traveling around the world interacting with
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  Speaker 2: everybody from president to paupers, you a wide array of
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  Speaker 2: thoughts and ideas to bring back to film and say,
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  Speaker 2: let's try this idea, let's take that part out, change
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  Speaker 2: it around a little bit. It's fun it's fun for me.
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  Speaker 1: With four films left in your first look deal with Sony,
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  Speaker 1: what would you like to tackle next?
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  Speaker 2: Well, as I do have a first look deal with Sony,
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  Speaker 2: and I would really like to break out the box.
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  Speaker 2: I've always been an edgy sort of person, so I
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  Speaker 2: think they can expect me to do something very edgy.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe we'll tackle a murder film. I mean, I want
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  Speaker 2: to get out there and do something that's different and
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  Speaker 2: that's got an espionage and who did it, and mix
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  Speaker 2: it with the complexity of faith. See, people often think
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  Speaker 2: that when you talk about faith, it's always with stained
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  Speaker 2: glass windows and patted pews. But who needs more faith
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  Speaker 2: than somebody who's praying that a runaway child would come home,
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  Speaker 2: or a sign has been abducted and we're trying to
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  Speaker 2: get him back, or we're trying to solve a murder mystery.
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  Speaker 2: We need your help to get through this process. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: faith doesn't have to be compartmentalized in a stereotypical ideology
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  Speaker 2: with the choir clapping and somebody coming down the aisle.
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  Speaker 2: Many times we have locked our faith up in our churches,
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  Speaker 2: and I believe it's screaming trying to get out and
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  Speaker 2: be a part of our day to day living.
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  Speaker 1: Your new film Jumping the Room hits theaters Mother's Day weekend.
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  Speaker 1: When can we hear more about what promises to be
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  Speaker 1: a very funny film.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think that you know, advertisement will roll out
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  Speaker 2: in the first quarter of January, and people will see
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  Speaker 2: that this is hilarious, that it's funny, that we're not
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  Speaker 2: afraid to make fun of ourselves, and that in the
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  Speaker 2: process they're going to have a great time my Mother's
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  Speaker 2: Day weekend, I think every mother in America, young and old,
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  Speaker 2: is going to want to see this film, and I
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  Speaker 2: think every sign is going to want to take his mother,
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  Speaker 2: or his wife or his girlfriend. It's not a chick
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  Speaker 2: flick as it were. I think it has romantic elements
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  Speaker 2: in it, but it's also got comedic elements in it
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  Speaker 2: and moments we're gotten playing football, all engaging each other.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a wide array of things because we
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  Speaker 2: are a wide array of ideas as a people, and
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  Speaker 2: to bring them all to film is going to be fun.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's going to be exciting, and Mother's Day
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  Speaker 2: Weekend should be filled with people who want to have
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  Speaker 2: a great evening