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| 2 | * SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Will Bates' extraordinarily eerie, minimalist, sci-fi inflected score sells the madness of Scientology quite well. The Xenu segment is probably the best example of this. |
| 3 | * HarsherInHindsight: When Paul Haggis visited the ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds2005'' set, Creator/StevenSpielberg commented to Haggis that Scientologists were "the nicest people". Haggis jokingly replied that it was because "we keep all the evil ones in the closet." Telling this joke got him in trouble with the church. [[HellholePrison It was not until much later that Haggis learned why]]. |
| 4 | * NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: The head of HBO Documentary Films Sheila Nevins didn't think the doc would do well at all. Then the Church of Scientology launched an ad campaign against it. It later became the second-most-watched HBO documentary of the decade. |
| 5 | --> "When I saw my name in a full-page ad in ''The New York Times'', I knew. Docs don’t get full-page ads, and when they do, they do really well." |
| 6 | * SpiritualSuccessor: Before ''Going Clear'', the best known critiques of Scientology were ''The Scandal of Scientology'' by Paulette Cooper, ''A Piece of Blue Sky'' by John Atack, ''Bare-faced Messiah'' by Russell Miller, and ''L. Ron Hubbard, Messiah or Madman?'' by Bent Corydon. Not surprisingly, ''Going Clear'' draws heavily from these books. |
| 7 | * TearJerker: The end of the film, where ex-members look back with regret on their actions as Scientologists, definitely qualifies. |
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