Posted on 12/02/2014 12:01:45 PM PST by Bratch
In the new movie, Exodus, director Ridley Scott decided to directly contravene possibly the most basic tenet of Judaism: that God is One and cannot be anthropomorphized. In the famous scene in which Moses stands near the burning bush and hears God talking to him, Scott decided to take liberties with the Biblical text and have an eleven-year-old boy, called Malak, stand near the bush and articulate the voice of God.
Scott’s excuse for violating the sacred text? As he said to The Hollywood Reporter: "Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction. Malak exudes innocence and purity, and those two qualities are extremely powerful."
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Why do people continue to patronize these idiots who insult our religion, our culture, our decency? Let the whole industry fail.
Watch any older movies and there is a respect for spirituality, now Hollywood lets atheists and gnostics crank out biblical movies and wonders why religious audiences have abandoned them.
“Scott’s excuse for violating the sacred text?”
As if Scott needed an excuse....
Amen.
It sounds like this is more of a narrative device than anything else, and the inspiration may just be more the desire to tell the story differently from the way Cecil B. DeMille told it, rather than anything theological.
I’ve been waiting years for a “Tronya” post!
Muslims and Samaritans also don’t like it.
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