What you need to know:
‘Sound of Freedom’ is one of the most controversial films of recent times, because a very dark case emerged around this film that shows that reality is stranger than fiction.
They say out there that reality is often stranger than fiction, including what we see in the movies. And boy, now we have an example that for the worse and in a very dark vein, proves it. we say it because Fabian Marta, the main financier of sound of freedom.
In accordance with Missouri Courts Official Website Records, Fabian Marta was arrested on July 21 and is being officially charged with first degree kidnappingfor allegedly “taking a non-relative under the age of 14 without parental consent”… And yes, as you can imagine, he is in a very nasty problem.
To give you an idea of how the matter is and according to NewsweekIn Missouri, child abduction is a class A felony, which means that Fabian Marta could face between 10 years and life in prison if convicted.
For now, On July 24, he paid a $15,000 bail to continue his process in freedom.but they still need to conclude with the investigations and the respective trial.
Fabian Marta, one of the people behind ‘Sound of Freedom’, was arrested
And it is that in addition to the scandalous nature of the crime for which he is accused, rIt is more shocking that Fabian Marta has been arrested because as we mentioned before, he was one of the people who put up money to finance sound of freedomone of the most controversial and grossing films of all of 2023.
If you have no idea what this tape is about, in sound of freedom basically as a drama and with a touch of action, tell us the story of Timothy Ballard. And what about the tour? Well then is an activist, former agent of the Department of Homeland Security of the United States and founder of Operation Underground Railroad, a non-profit organization against sex trafficking (mainly children).
Of course the fact that Fabian Martaone of the men who gave a good wool to produce sound of freedom, they are accusing him of kidnapping minors when the film precisely seeks to demonstrate this situation, flat out it is an extremely dark twist that not even the scriptwriters they could occur. And more if we consider that Marta declared that he was an “angel investor” on the tape.
The story behind ‘Sound of Freedom’
For those who don’t know the story behind sound of freedomIn the beginning this movie starring Jim Caviezel (the same one we saw as Jesus in Passion of Christ by Mel Gibson) and produced by Santa Fe Films (company directed by Eduardo Verástegui) It was supposedly going to have the distribution of Fox to project it in Latin America.
However, when Disney bought 20th Century Fox, They threw out the agreement they reached with Santa Fe Films because the film was not for them. Since then, Eduardo Verástegui searched everywhere to see who would lend him a hand to launch sound of freedomuntil he closed a deal with Angel Studios (a Christian distributor that finances its productions through contributions and donations in its network of associated parishes throughout the United States).
‘Sound of Freedom’ sparked controversy and conspiracy
From that moment on, it was talked about Hollywood and the elite of the entertainment world did not want it to be released sound of freedom, because they supposedly sought to silence her because of the topic she is dealing with. However, the reality is that there is no conspiracy against this tapebecause the studies simply did not see the potential to release it in theaters.
In the midst of all this someone else appeared in the play: Q’Anon. For those who have no idea what that is, it’s about a group that believes that the great spheres of power in the world traffic in minors. But not only this, they also support the ideas of the American extreme rightand taking advantage of all this, they set up a conversation about a conspiracy behind sound of freedom.
Q’Anon supported his idea of censorship to sound of freedomprecisely taking as reference the plot of the film. Although in the same way, they took Jim Caviezel as an emblem, who on multiple occasions has spoken in favor of this group and even went so far as to declare that a storm was approaching him for this tape.
The curious box office success of ‘Sound of Freedom’
Despite alleged censorship and little support from Hollywood’s biggest studios, sound of freedom It surprisingly became a box office hit in the United States.. So much so that at some point, this film came to outperform mega productions like Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
Of course this is quite an accomplishment for a “low budget” film –considering that it cost 14.5 million dollars–because in addition to pocketing more wool than other tapes, they practically came out with super positive numbers, because until the moment of writing this note, sound of freedom has raised neither more nor less than 156 million 440 thousand 598 dollars… just as they read it.
Why the box office success of ‘Sound of Freedom’?
And you may be wondering how is it that a film of these characteristics managed to surpass other great films. Well, there are different answers. The first is just the conspiracy idea behind sound of freedom that caused morbidity and caused several people in the United States to rush to see it in theaters.
But the second answer has to do with a master move by Angel Studios, who used the issue of censorship to convince followers of their parishes to see sound of freedom. In accordance with indiewirethe distributor set up a program called “Pay It Forward”, which allowed followers of the parishes they lead to buy large quantities of tickets for the film.
These tickets could be donated to others and this somehow iinflated the box office sound of freedomregardless of whether the people who bought the tickets and the people they gave them to claimed their places or not. Either way, despite this plan, an American religious sector did connect with the film and caused it to have a massive theatrical release.
So much so that after much controversy and conversation on social networks, finally sound of freedom It will hit theaters in Mexico on August 31. –even Sandra Cuevas is going to project it in Cuauhtémoc–. In any case, it is still strange that one of the people who made it possible for this film to go so far, is involved in a case similar to the one exposed in the tape, don’t you think? What do you think about this whole case? We want to read them.
