Talk:Rock: It's Your Decision

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Part of this page (specifically, the "alternately, because fundamentalist religion...etc." section) bears an uncanny resemblance to part of TvTropes' Alternative Character Interpretation page for this movie. Should we amend this article, or should I amend the TVT version? RoninMacbeth (talk) 06:22, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

Amend this version. Let them plagiarize us. We shouldn't plagiarize them. (Although I'm registered user on TV Tropes, I identify much more strongly with this wiki, hence the "us" and 'them.) Spud (talk) 08:34, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

John Taylor?

The same one from Duran Duran? ^{— Unsigned, by: Packerchu / talk / contribs}

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Definitely not. :)

Now, there's very little information out there on the production team other than some promo spam from writer Douglass K. Davies (he didn't write Rock: It's Your Decision but he wrote other Taylor directed films). What I think can be surmised is that the Alabama based producer David Olive III started off doing some camera work for a few 1970s Christploitation direct-to-church movies for Rapture exploitation specialist Russell Doughten and his "Mark IV" production company. It sounds like he got the idea that, hey, maybe *he* can get into the direct-to-church circuit too! So he raised some assets to form a "Olive's Film Productions" (which nonetheless still was distributed by Mark IV.) Altogether, Olive III and Taylor made four forgettable films in the 1980s that probably spammed various evangelical churches, and then they promptly seemed to have mostly disappeared from the Christploitation film scene.

Trivia: according to a Shock Cinema Magazine article on Rock: It's Your Decision, Karen Richardson's script began as a creative writing assignment while she was attending Liberty University. Also a trivia note: there are four additional people with the "Olive" last name in this movie's full cast and credits (plus the lead is named "Ty Taylor".) Now, with so little information, it's hard to confirm what suspiciously looks like a "glorified family home movie" by the credits (something not seen in later Oliver/Taylor movies), but... BobJohnson (talk) 22:52, 3 July 2024 (UTC)