{"id":1091,"date":"2008-07-30T10:24:13","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T15:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:37:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:37:31","slug":"hey-lionsgate-im-watching-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=1091","title":{"rendered":"Hey Lionsgate–I’m Watching You"},"content":{"rendered":"

I promised that I would follow the story that I reported the other day<\/a> about Lionsgate Picture’s apparent use of Ginny Owens’ “Be Thou My Vision” on the trailer for the upcoming release of Saw V<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This message was just posted on her website<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Friends: Sometime during the afternoon of Friday, July 25th, my voice on “Be Thou My Vision” was replaced by another singer.<\/p>\n

The track still sounds nearly identical, and most websites continue to “credit” me for it, but the background music for the Saw V trailer is no longer my original version of “Be Thou My Vision.”<\/p>\n

Thanks.<\/p>\n

–Ginny Owens<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, to be clear, the person you hear singing on the Saw V<\/em> trailer is not<\/em> Ginny Owens, but someone who sounds very nearly like her.<\/p>\n

Pretty slick, huh? As to the use of this hymn with a motion picture which depicts the dark and sadistic side of humanity in all its Technicolor gore, I’ll leave you to draw your own conclusions.<\/p>\n

Is nothing sacred anymore? For some in this post-Christian, post-modern world of ours, apparently not.<\/p>\n

And to the oily movie moguls at Lionsgate Studios and the other industry movers and shakers who viewed my post on their iPhones and Blackberrys Monday afternoon, I leave you with this thought:<\/p>\n

I’m watching you.<\/p>\n

But I think I’ll take a pass on your movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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