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A New Jersey news report covers a small protest against Kevin Smith's film Dogma, including a man who looks like Smith and says he knows little about it.
0:04 The new movie Dogma opens tonight, and it's already generating a huge amount of controversy, and so is its creator, Kevin Smith, who lives right here in New Jersey. 0:12 News 12 New Jersey's Caroline Shively reports on one protest against the movie in Eatontown tonight. 0:18 Hail Mary, full of grace. 0:20 Organizers in Eatontown had hoped for hundreds to join them in the protest against the movie Dogma. 0:26 Instead, they got less than two dozen, but they were joined by this man. 0:31 He wouldn't admit it, but he looked and sounded suspiciously like Dogma's writer, director, co-star, and New Jersey resident Kevin Smith. 0:39 I don't think it stands for, uh, for anything positive. 0:42 What does it stand for? 0:43 I don't know, but I've been told not good. 0:45 The movie follows 2 fallen angels who try to get back into heaven and the people who are fighting to keep them out. 0:52 I was the 13th apostle. 0:53 You knew Christ? 0:55 No. Brother owes me 12 bucks. 0:57 But lines like that have many groups angry. 1:00 We're here with a small number, but we're the church militant. 1:04 We should have more Catholics here. If this was a, a direct attack against Muslims or the Holocaust or the Jewish people, you would see them outraged. 1:14 The protesters didn't seem to slow down the number of people pouring into the theater to see the film. 1:20 Just makes me want to see it more, actually, if, you know, there's controversy about it. 1:24 I think they might be taking it too seriously. I mean, it's, it's just a film. 1:26 It's a, it's a comedy, so you really shouldn't take it too seriously. 1:29 The battle between the protesters and filmmakers is sure to continue for as long as the film runs, but in the end, this is a fight that might be won or lost at the box office. 1:39 In Eatontown, Caroline Shively, News 12, New Jersey. 1:42 Smith's production company, View Askew, actually posts hate mail it receives on its website. 
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