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Title: Best Missionary/Monk Films? Post by: Scott on August 19, 2007, 08:26:20 AM Which is your favorite Missionary/Monastic/Monk film?
[youtube=425,350]http://youtube.com/watch?v=PvWaD-NErlY&mode=related&search= [youtube=425,350]http://youtube.com/watch?v=6D6C2v-uAqE [youtube=425,350]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y_0uDR8E5CE Title: Re: Best Missionary/Monk Films? Post by: BoyScoutKevin on August 19, 2007, 10:20:30 AM I've seen them all, and they're all good.
And they're all based upon books, except the first one "The Mission," which was witten directly for the screen, though based upon semi-factual-historical events. As was "The Devils," which is also based upon semi-factual-historical events, and is probably the best film Ken Russell has ever done. Even "Name of the Rose" was a good attempt at trying to adapt something for the screen, though, if anybody has read the book by Umberto Eco, it really need a television miniseries to do it justice. One probably cannot list every missionary/monk film out there, as the list would run into hundreds ofr films, but one I would like to mention is "the Inn of Sixth Happiness" w/ Ingrid Bergman, Curd Jurgens, and Robert Donat. This would actually be Robert Donat's last film, before he died. I mention this film, if only for "The Children's Marching Song" in it. "This old man, he played one . . ." even in the late '50's, we were singing this song in elementary school. Title: Re: Best Missionary/Monk Films? Post by: Shadow on August 19, 2007, 01:20:35 PM I voted for The Name Of The Rose. I've always enjoyed that film since catching it on HBO back in the 80's.
Title: Re: Best Missionary/Monk Films? Post by: ulthar on August 25, 2007, 11:43:44 AM I'm not sure if you would really consider this a 'missionary' film, but it sort of fits. THE MOSQUITO COAST has an interesting missionary feel to it, though the 'god' is technology/first world sociocentrism rather than God of the Bible.
Title: Re: Best Missionary/Monk Films? Post by: Allhallowsday on August 26, 2007, 01:05:53 AM THE SAND PEBBLES (1966) has a minor story of a missionary and his daughter that become a kind of tragic "mise en abyme" for the whole movie as all the characters become involved at the climax.
Too bad we can't include nunneries like in BLACK NARCISSUS (1947)... :wink: TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD (1971 ~ LA NOCHE DEL TERROR CIEGO) ? :drink: Title: Re: Best Missionary/Monk Films? Post by: ER on February 03, 2022, 12:30:00 AM Black Robe. The Mission was stretched way too thin. Black Robe is probably my favorite Canadian film.
Title: Re: Best Missionary/Monk Films? Post by: Alex on February 03, 2022, 02:35:37 AM The Name of the Rose for me.
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