Posted on 03/16/2013 1:11:01 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Last Sunday, the first installment of History’s five-part miniseries The Bible beat everything on television with a massive 13.1 million viewers, making it cable’s most-watched entertainment telecast this year. For producer Mark Burnett, who worked on the ten-hour special with wife Roma Downey, the success of The Bible isn’t all that surprising. “It will be, over the next 40 or 50 years, the most watched thing that Roma and I have ever made,” he told EW, quite confidently, back in January.
At the time, Burnett gushed about shooting the series. “I really believe what I’m going to tell you right now,” he said. “The hand of God was on this…. the edit came together perfectly, the actors came together perfectly, it just comes to life.” But Burnett wasn’t just speaking about how well the practicalities of production had gone. “Weird things happened during filming,” he said. “Everybody would look at each other like, “Whoa.”
Here are a few of the “weird things” he was talking about....
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48 cobras!
What country was it filmed in?
When it comes in Blu-ray, I think I will buy it. It may not be completely legit, but it’s teaching people who have absolutely no knowledge of the Word or God.
north africa somewhere if it was the sahara.
So since there were camera’s everywhere there should be film evidence right?
Hair-raising. I missed the first installment, hopefully they’ll show it again this Sunday.
If you happen to miss another episode, Lifetime is showing them on Monday nights, I believe.
Further, the film misrepresented the Bible at several points. For example: The angels who came to Sodom were not desperately pleading for Lot to "Help us, help us!" The biblical account shows they had no fear of the men of Sodom.
Secondly, Sarah did not attempt to run up the mountain to stop Abraham from sacrificing Isaac because it was a "3-day journey" to the mountain (Genesis 22:4). Plus there was no donkey in the film (Genesis 22:3). And, there was no indication of Abraham's conclusion that God would raise Isaac from the dead, since, it was from the dead that he first received him (Hebrews 11:17-19). And it was this faith in God's ability to raise the dead that caused Abraham to be willing to sacrifice Isaac; a fairly important point, I should think.
For a movie that purports to tell the story of the Bible, it drifts some considerable distance away from it.
Who knew Noah was a Scot ?
Well, that actor does have a wonderful speaking voice.
When we contemplate the reality, Noah's descendents were Scots....and Irish, and Turks, and Jews, Scandanavians, and Irish, Russians, Africans, Chinese, and on and on.
We are all desecended from Noah.
“For a movie that purports to tell the story of the Bible, it drifts some considerable distance away from it.”
I expected no less from The “History” channel. Sounds like I wouldn’t have been dissapointed if I had bothered to watch their drivel.
The Bible beat everything on television with a massive 13.1 million viewers,
The biggest crock of sh!t I have read. NCIS, NCIS LA, American Idol, Modern Family, and many other shows beat this. I am so sick of agenda seekers who lie.
When it comes in Blu-ray, I think I will buy it. It may not be completely legit,
I wish it was from the true Catholic Bible instead of the King James version which is more free with the truth.
Roma Downey is a Catholic.
“I expected no less from The “History” channel. Sounds like I wouldn’t have been dissapointed if I had bothered to watch their drivel.”
I agree with you on the History Channel, they will deliberately misrepresent the truth for the sake of creating drama.
However, this series in particular was made by Burnett and Downey, who are people of faith. The History channel may have backed it, but I don’t think they had much say in the day-to-day of it all. People of faith the world over have mostly good to say of it.
What’s more, the discrepancies that you were responding to really are quite minimal and don’t really detract from the point of the story.
There's a series of petroglyphs in the Kola Peninsula that tell that particular story ~ they were scratched out and carved up to 7500 years ago.
That's just one of the reasons dramatic portrayals of the Bible's oldest stories can be so difficult to produce in a satisfactory manner.
Then, too, those older stories were all written down and preserved by Jews ~ which provides everyone with an independent reference for the translations into modern languages.
As I recall it the Reformation didn't begin in a dispute over the proper way to tell Genesis in English ~ there was something else actually!
Wow. No wonder the left walks all over us. We should be rejoicing that ANYTHING remotely decent gets huge ratings. I can’t believe the nitpicking about this or that blah blah blah.
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/03/15/tv-ratings-thursday-american-idol-community-greys-anatomy-hit-lows-the-big-bang-theory-slides-parks-recreation-up/173460/ Here’s the ratings, and the numbers. Will you explain the ‘crock’ part in some detail? If I”m reading this correctly you are wrong ~ so here’s your chance.
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