The piece I'm working on for Jesus movies is trying to argue that nothing prevents Christians from holding New Testament films as sacred texts. Thematically, though, I'm really interested in what it says about the audience. It feels like watching a kiss from the 30's rigid, flat, and little embarrassing. It draws way too much attention to itself, and is ultimately cumbersome. In The Message, though, the necessary POV (and other techniques to mask Muhammad, like having other characters repeat what he said) doesn't work visually.
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Instead, the movie ended up showing the city as a series of used car lots, dusty roads, cheap diners and motel rooms, which ended up being the exact perfect texture for that kind of story. It actually made me think of Ulmer's Detour, and how his budget wouldn't afford him fancy shots of beautiful L.A. It was not an artistic choice, but it did yield artistic consequences, some good and some bad. Now, it was completely out of necessity that Muhammad couldn't be shown, for obvious reasons. blockbuster (though it was completely financed by Middle Eastern and North African countries, from what I gather), with a dissipated ethnic bias.īut the real key for me is the POV shot. So, it's refreshing to see what looks like a U.S.
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There is nothing backhandedly noble about the black slaves, there are no varying degrees of villainy based on skin tone, or anything like that. This isn't really anything special, it just makes it an average sword and sandal movie by structure, and a surprisingly unique story to see for a western viewer.
The camera wooshes in and out of big battle scenes, and flurries around at the beginning and end of scenes as a pretty weak attempt to make you think it's saying something. Characters state their objectives and character traits in the same way that we're all familiar with regarding poor scripts. So I purchased it through legitimate vendors, watched it, and wanted to see what your thoughts were.įirst, it's not a great movie both the dialog and the filming style are exposition-heavy. This reminded me of The Message, which I remember hearing employed a POV for Muhammad on occasion. I'm working on a thing for Jesus movies, and noticed an interesting shot in De Mille's King of Kings when Jesus heals the blind girl, the first image we see of him is from her perspective, a gorgeous metaphor.
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