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TONY ORTEGA
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We enjoy hearing from Mitch Brisker, the recently-defected former Scientology film director, whose memoir we enjoyed very much. He sent us some thoughts about what he observed regarding L. Ron Hubbard’s ideas about acting, and where Tom Cruise learned his craft.
In the 70s, when Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard began making Scientology training films at his base in La Quinta, California, the staff were often called upon to perform roles.
The result, as has been widely reported, was some of the most laughable, low-quality films ever produced. This was made even more laughable when one of Hubbard’s daughters (acting as film editor) suggested that one particular film would take top honors at the Cannes Film Festival.
Hubbard deemed that his film crew’s deficiencies were not from a lack of training, skill, or talent, or to the fact that Hubbard himself knew nothing about filmmaking, but rather to a lack of “spiritual awareness.”
To solve that problem he developed what we now know as Super Power. Never one to miss an opportunity to grift off of Hubbard’s words, in 2013 Miscavige released Super Power—an expensive and time consuming series of auditing actions and drills that is available only at their “spiritual headquarters” in Clearwater, Florida. In fact, the entire motivation behind the space planning and marketing of the so-called Flag building was the release of Super Power. It is laughable that Super Power came about as a solution to Hubbard’s inability to get his most ardent followers (David Miscavige was on Hubbard’s camera crew) to produce a training film above a middle school level—films that when watched would make one want to shove grapefruit spoons into one’s eyeballs.
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In the 70s, when Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard began making Scientology training films at his base in La Quinta, California, the staff were often called upon to perform roles.
The result, as has been widely reported, was some of the most laughable, low-quality films ever produced. This was made even more laughable when one of Hubbard’s daughters (acting as film editor) suggested that one particular film would take top honors at the Cannes Film Festival.
Hubbard deemed that his film crew’s deficiencies were not from a lack of training, skill, or talent, or to the fact that Hubbard himself knew nothing about filmmaking, but rather to a lack of “spiritual awareness.”
To solve that problem he developed what we now know as Super Power. Never one to miss an opportunity to grift off of Hubbard’s words, in 2013 Miscavige released Super Power—an expensive and time consuming series of auditing actions and drills that is available only at their “spiritual headquarters” in Clearwater, Florida. In fact, the entire motivation behind the space planning and marketing of the so-called Flag building was the release of Super Power. It is laughable that Super Power came about as a solution to Hubbard’s inability to get his most ardent followers (David Miscavige was on Hubbard’s camera crew) to produce a training film above a middle school level—films that when watched would make one want to shove grapefruit spoons into one’s eyeballs.
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Scientology's former film director on L. Ron Hubbard, method acting, and Tom Cruise
We enjoy hearing from Mitch Brisker, the recently-defected former Scientology film director, whose memoir we enjoyed very much. He sent us some thoughts about what he observed regarding L. Ron Hubbard’s ideas about acting, and where Tom Cruise learned his craft.
tonyortega.substack.com
