
Quote from: M.10rda on January 27, 2026, 09:08:46 PMLotta' studio pics in the mid-20th were somehow Jesus-adjacent. I suppose Christian films or Christian-related films were good box office. THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII rather aggressively manipulated history to line up with Christ's trial before Pilate. I also remember thinking SPARTACUS (which I watched about 9 months back) was going out of its way to make Christian allusions, even though it predates the life of Jesus by a few decades. The Bible = $$$.The way I see it, it is very much something like the way modern movies/series project contemporary ideas about gender and diversity onto the past. Earlier generations were invested in the fate of the Christians in the Roman Empire, so if you wanted to vibe with your audience, you had to shoehorn in Christian themes. After all, one thing that was generally known about the Romans was that they persecuted Christians. This idea predates movies and was a recurrent theme in 19C depictions of the period, which of course directly inspired the Hollywood epics.![]()
Quote from: Dr. Whom on January 28, 2026, 01:59:50 PMQuote from: Trevor on January 22, 2026, 12:02:18 AMThere is undoubtedly going to be the usual race and gender swap BS and I am so tired of this nonsense 😴
I draw the line at a male Servalan





or something. Nah, it's nothing remotely that grand - but the screenplay still treats him like he's Tom Joad. Ehhh.