03-27-2016, 02:49 PM
Easter's the culmination of what Moses did. Moses brought the Israelites out of Egypt -- Jesus, by dying and rising, brought all creation out of death. That's why I think they keep showing it at Easter -- and not at Passover, those corporate clods. xD
Funny thing that I'm pretty sure you know is that the bits of Law and History the Bible has never sounded so pompous, not the originals and not the translations, but yeah, this is ridiculously fun. Here, they usually dub it, so you don't get to hear it in English, but fortunately the interwebs provide readily accessible copies -- I like it because of the spectacle, but I always like it with the ready knowledge that I shouldn't, because precisely of language like this. My favorite Jesus film/Hollywood epic remains to be Ben-Hur, of course, which to me never gets as campy, but always remains as awesome and spectacular -- and hey, with that Miklos Rosza, even more so -- though epic films, I think, never really capture the spirit of Jesus, precisely because of their epicness. Overall, I'd prefer peeps just showed this:
Never hammy because its whole text is from the New Testament itself, but still tremendously powerful, partly because the story is presented pure, especially because this is Pasolini we're talking about. Too bad about "taste"....
Funny thing that I'm pretty sure you know is that the bits of Law and History the Bible has never sounded so pompous, not the originals and not the translations, but yeah, this is ridiculously fun. Here, they usually dub it, so you don't get to hear it in English, but fortunately the interwebs provide readily accessible copies -- I like it because of the spectacle, but I always like it with the ready knowledge that I shouldn't, because precisely of language like this. My favorite Jesus film/Hollywood epic remains to be Ben-Hur, of course, which to me never gets as campy, but always remains as awesome and spectacular -- and hey, with that Miklos Rosza, even more so -- though epic films, I think, never really capture the spirit of Jesus, precisely because of their epicness. Overall, I'd prefer peeps just showed this:
Never hammy because its whole text is from the New Testament itself, but still tremendously powerful, partly because the story is presented pure, especially because this is Pasolini we're talking about. Too bad about "taste"....