Since I am back home for spring break, I have an available television with cable to watch. So I took some time yesterday to watch The Bible miniseries on the History channel to see if it was any good and what it was like. The series is very well made on a technical level, with big props and a big budget and good actors. The content is a bit questionable though. It seems that Mark Burnett and the other producers of this series fell into the same rut as the majority of other people who try to make a film or series out a Bible series. They took it and made it into a blockbuster type of series rather than sticking to the Biblical basis. In one scene, the angels visited Lot to see if there was anyone in Sodom or Gomorrah to save, and when they left, they had to fight their way out with swords. The angels did. The producers probably just wanted a cool sword fighting scene to put in, which is what they got, but in doing that they degraded angels to the same level as man who have to kill to accomplish something. The series is well made, but now totally accurate, much like many other series and films based on the Bible.
-Jacob Millay
Jacob,
ReplyDeleteI've not seen much of it, but I would tend to agree with you. Why does any Bible movie or series have to be a blockbuster? Why can't someone make a great, small, thoughtful indy film?