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thistle
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Universal. It means everybody can watch, including children.I’m confused.I know you are from England. What does U stand for?
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lak611
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That would probably not get a U rating
It probably would not matter if done well. The Passion of the Christ was rated R.
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mercygate
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I was just thinking about this this morning: Judges 11-12. The son of a harlot, spurned by his brothers, is a wild and dangerous hooligan in his youth. Later, he is persuaded to take up their cause against the Ammonites. He does, exacting the promise of their subordination in return. Then there is the whole matter of his daughter (whom he likely did not offer as a burnt sacrifice) . . . Real soap opera material here.
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MarcoPolo
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Looks like everyone is big on Old Testament movies! I guess the whole action and battle mode of many of those books are ripe for the big screen. Great answers everyone.
For those suggesting Maccabbees, is Mel Gibson still working on making that one?? Anyone know?
For those suggesting Maccabbees, is Mel Gibson still working on making that one?? Anyone know?
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kentuckyliz
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How about the very early Christian centuries?
John and Mary at Ephesus, and Paul visits for a couple years to preach, coming through town…Mary’s life is concluded and the apostles are all gathered around her…of course Thomas gets there late (coming from India) and insists on seeing the body (doubting Thomas?!) —> dormition/assumption…John’s continuing service at Ephesus until exiled to Patmos…then the Revelation…hold it, this is turning into a movie series.
The stories of the Apostles and where they went and established churches…Thomas in India fascinates me and it would be visually interesting. Martyred 52 AD.
St. Athanasius coming to fisticuffs at an ecumenical council to oppose the Aryans.
St Polycarp of Smyrna…life, teachings, martyrdom.
St Julian Martyr
Early heresies could make an interesting and dramatic story.
Also, a movie for those who claim Mary had other children: OK, depict that story and let’s see if the siblings don’t also start claiming that they too are God’s Only Son/Daughter and they start heretical churches and find followers. Jesus was my brother and he’s gone now, follow me…because that’s what would have happened if it were true! Christianity wouldn’t have survived two centuries if Mary had other children with competing claims.
The early church coming into new places…France, Spain, England, Northern Europe, etc.
The early virgin Roman martyr women…Cecilia is a fave. There’s two actual relic-remains (whole corpses in a glass case, in side altars) of two third-century Roman martyrs, St. Bonasa and I forget the name of the other one–on display at St Martin of Tours in Louisville, KY. One was a Christian virgin and the pagan Roman empire wanted to execute her…and the other saint was a Roman soldier who gathered up a hundred troops to go fight to defend her virginity and her life…and was also martyred. (A good chastity and chivalry theme. Release it the same weekend as some Hollywood Ho movie. Ha!) I think Louisville has these Roman martyr relics because of the early 20th century Italian nationalist threat, perhaps the church started moving saint relics out of Italian churches, convents, and monasteries before they were sacked and desecrated.
Mexico–Bl Miguel Pro SJ, the Masonic government persecuting and attempting to eliminate the Church…Bl Miguel Pro’s serving in secret…his execution–
Viva Cristo Rey!
And you can give out Viva Cristo Rey! bumperstickers as people are leaving the theater. Make it the new catch-phrase! Please, dear God, how tiresome is “Git-R-Done.” We need a new catch-phrase desperately and Viva Cristo Rey! would be worthy.
People are looking for heroes, and saint martyrdom stories are great hero stories.
St Max Kolbe! --What a life, you could make a long movie or miniseries.
St Edith Stein…I love her. Start with her life as a student under Husserl, studying phenomenology (which has shaped theology so powerfully in late 20 c), and then teaching…until the Nazis started the persecutions…her staying with friends and reading the autobiography of St Teresa of Avila, perhaps some saint flashback scenes in there…conversion, Karmel, Rosa, mom, transfer to Holland, SS officers knocking at the door…her prayers could be interwoven, her Holy Spirit prayer and her journal perceiving herself as a sacrificial, eucharistic offering…which came true at Auschwitz with Rosa. Can you picture them in their Carmelite habits, comforting others in line, the two sisters holding hands as they walk into the chambers together, their last look to each other, then raising their faces and hands to Heaven in their last prayer. I don’t know if you’d want to depict the scene inside the chamber, but perhaps do SFX with an angel with a censer incensing them, and cover their nudity with a glowing white robe of martyrdom, and the chamber-smoke mingles with the incense and the ascending white-robed figure and the prayers, all rising to heaven…and St Teresa is standing next to Jesus ready to welcome her…
I’m a big fan of Newman but I don’t know how that would translate into a good movie. It’s hard to represent interior, intellectual, spiritual stories. Perhaps his investigations into the Early Church Fathers could switch back and forth into his life and then flashback stories of what he’s reading–the ECF’s and how the early church believed and practiced the faith and how they understood the church. There’s lots of good conflict in the story, the Tractarians, the arguments at university, the editorial pages in the newspaper, even conflict after he came a Catholic…but so much heroism, the idea of the university, dublin scenes…being incardinated…that could be a very emotional and beautiful scene.
That’s getting beyond Bible stories, sorry!
John and Mary at Ephesus, and Paul visits for a couple years to preach, coming through town…Mary’s life is concluded and the apostles are all gathered around her…of course Thomas gets there late (coming from India) and insists on seeing the body (doubting Thomas?!) —> dormition/assumption…John’s continuing service at Ephesus until exiled to Patmos…then the Revelation…hold it, this is turning into a movie series.
The stories of the Apostles and where they went and established churches…Thomas in India fascinates me and it would be visually interesting. Martyred 52 AD.
St. Athanasius coming to fisticuffs at an ecumenical council to oppose the Aryans.
St Polycarp of Smyrna…life, teachings, martyrdom.
St Julian Martyr
Early heresies could make an interesting and dramatic story.
Also, a movie for those who claim Mary had other children: OK, depict that story and let’s see if the siblings don’t also start claiming that they too are God’s Only Son/Daughter and they start heretical churches and find followers. Jesus was my brother and he’s gone now, follow me…because that’s what would have happened if it were true! Christianity wouldn’t have survived two centuries if Mary had other children with competing claims.
The early church coming into new places…France, Spain, England, Northern Europe, etc.
The early virgin Roman martyr women…Cecilia is a fave. There’s two actual relic-remains (whole corpses in a glass case, in side altars) of two third-century Roman martyrs, St. Bonasa and I forget the name of the other one–on display at St Martin of Tours in Louisville, KY. One was a Christian virgin and the pagan Roman empire wanted to execute her…and the other saint was a Roman soldier who gathered up a hundred troops to go fight to defend her virginity and her life…and was also martyred. (A good chastity and chivalry theme. Release it the same weekend as some Hollywood Ho movie. Ha!) I think Louisville has these Roman martyr relics because of the early 20th century Italian nationalist threat, perhaps the church started moving saint relics out of Italian churches, convents, and monasteries before they were sacked and desecrated.
Mexico–Bl Miguel Pro SJ, the Masonic government persecuting and attempting to eliminate the Church…Bl Miguel Pro’s serving in secret…his execution–
Viva Cristo Rey!
And you can give out Viva Cristo Rey! bumperstickers as people are leaving the theater. Make it the new catch-phrase! Please, dear God, how tiresome is “Git-R-Done.” We need a new catch-phrase desperately and Viva Cristo Rey! would be worthy.
People are looking for heroes, and saint martyrdom stories are great hero stories.
St Max Kolbe! --What a life, you could make a long movie or miniseries.
St Edith Stein…I love her. Start with her life as a student under Husserl, studying phenomenology (which has shaped theology so powerfully in late 20 c), and then teaching…until the Nazis started the persecutions…her staying with friends and reading the autobiography of St Teresa of Avila, perhaps some saint flashback scenes in there…conversion, Karmel, Rosa, mom, transfer to Holland, SS officers knocking at the door…her prayers could be interwoven, her Holy Spirit prayer and her journal perceiving herself as a sacrificial, eucharistic offering…which came true at Auschwitz with Rosa. Can you picture them in their Carmelite habits, comforting others in line, the two sisters holding hands as they walk into the chambers together, their last look to each other, then raising their faces and hands to Heaven in their last prayer. I don’t know if you’d want to depict the scene inside the chamber, but perhaps do SFX with an angel with a censer incensing them, and cover their nudity with a glowing white robe of martyrdom, and the chamber-smoke mingles with the incense and the ascending white-robed figure and the prayers, all rising to heaven…and St Teresa is standing next to Jesus ready to welcome her…
I’m a big fan of Newman but I don’t know how that would translate into a good movie. It’s hard to represent interior, intellectual, spiritual stories. Perhaps his investigations into the Early Church Fathers could switch back and forth into his life and then flashback stories of what he’s reading–the ECF’s and how the early church believed and practiced the faith and how they understood the church. There’s lots of good conflict in the story, the Tractarians, the arguments at university, the editorial pages in the newspaper, even conflict after he came a Catholic…but so much heroism, the idea of the university, dublin scenes…being incardinated…that could be a very emotional and beautiful scene.
That’s getting beyond Bible stories, sorry!
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jmcrae
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Do you guys know the song by the Arrogant Worms, Jesus’ Brother Bob?
That would make a pretty funny movie, too.
That would make a pretty funny movie, too.
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pprimeau1976
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I don’t think so. Even if he did he would be accused of being an anti-Semite for doing it because the Hebrew Bible (at least the one used by the Jews today) doesn’t contain those books.
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johnstown_johnn
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A story of John the Evangelist beginning at the Resurrection and continuing with his captivity and being thrown into a cauldron of boiling oil only to emerge unstained. Going on into his time in Greece and on the Island of Pathmos where he wrote the Apocalypse…this would include the Special Effects of the Angels appearing to him, Christ and the visions of plagues and wars to befall humankind.
Ending with the General Judgment. It would be a spectacular that only someone like Mel Gibbson could do justice.
Ending with the General Judgment. It would be a spectacular that only someone like Mel Gibbson could do justice.
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NotWorthy
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Wow, because Maccabees paints the Jews in a better picture than almost any other OT historical book. The whole thing is basically the military equivalent of David vs. Goliath.
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johnstown_johnn
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Didn’t the Machabees all commit suicide? This is a no-no."
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Mirdath
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It’s like ‘Waiting for Godot’, except with closure. Could be done, though a little trimming of the dialogue might be necessary
In the realm of straight bible-to-film, how come nobody’s suggested Daniel? Sure, the lion’s den bit is old hat, but that was just one chapter of his story.
Giving Jeremiah the biopic treatment might make for a good one too, considering his interesting life, depth, internal conflict, and little quirks like dragging a yoke around.
Simon Magus was pretty neat, though any movie about him would probably have to take serious liberties with the source since he doesn’t get a lot of time there. He’d do well as an antihero though.
Maccabees I’d really rather see as a strategy videogame. I hope some studios realize they can only redo WWII and Vietnam so many times before it gets dull…
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rpp
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If memory serves, most were killed in battle.
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jmcrae
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And the rest were martyred, because they refused to publicly deny their faith - none of them died by their own hand.
I think a big-budget screen version of the Book of Maccabees might be just what the doctor ordered, for the state of our culture right now. It might inspire people to seek out something to believe in that would be worth dying for.
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jmcrae
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I don’t think that was the Maccabees.
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LilyM
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No - that was in the 70s AD - after the time of Christ even.
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lak611
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Masada was already done as a TV miniseries.
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NotWorthy
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Could you see Mel Gibson doing the scenes where Eliazer (?) won’t eat the meat, even the fake act? And then following it up with the mother of the seven sons?
Wow!
Wow!
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