Mine is white Jesus!
Smart people realize how silly these depictions are, dummies get upset about “historical inaccuracies”.
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How could he stay white, wandering around the desert for so long?
At least show a sunburned Jesus. Jesus!
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@DrBob2 the absolute greatest Helen of Troy was Irene Pappas in “The Trojan Women.”
“The Trojan Women” (1971, Director Michael Cacoyannis - note that he was Greek) is the pinnacle of film-making with a stunning cast.
Key Cast:
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Irene Papas as Helen of Troy
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Katharine Hepburn as Hecuba
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Vanessa Redgrave as Andromache
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Geneviève Bujold as Cassandra
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Patrick Magee as Menelaus
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Brian Blessed as Talthybius
The screenplay for the 1971 film was adapted and written by the director himself, Michael Cacoyannis, based on the classic English translation of Euripides’ 415 BCE play by the renowned American classicist Edith Hamilton.
This movie blows “The Odyssey” out of the water. Irene Pappas shows how a Greek woman can be filled with such charisma that her husband will take her back even after she ran off with another man.
This movie is available for free streaming over Kanopy using a library card. It’s also on Amazon Video.
Wendy
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I’ll have to check it out. She was very good in Zorba the Greek with Anthony Quinn and Alan Bates.
DB2
The term “40” wasn’t an actual number, it just meant “a lot”.
Ali Baba & the 40 Thieves
40 Days and 40 Nights
Wandering in the desert for 40 years
Goliath taunted David for 40 Days before they fought
Moses was on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights
Saul reigned fr 40 years
(So did David!)
Egypt was to be laid desolate for 40 years
Mohammed was 40 years old when he received the revelations
And there are lots of others. Somehow “40” got embedded in ancient culture as meaning “an almost impossibly high number”. Husband and wife, fingers and toes, should have been 41, I think.
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I thought I was unique in carrying ear plugs with me.
Even to off Broadway plays.
ralph
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I carry ear plugs everywhere. There might be a screaming baby in a supermarket or too-loud music in a restaurant. Definitely to movie theaters.
Wendy
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This looks like people atching during an earthquake
Would you beat her up? Sounds like it. It is a very uncool statement. Would she hit you? Also it is a bit strange to call a vagin* an it.
The stage is treated differently in different days. Black productions of The Wiz or Shakespeare are wanted. The issue is what society wants. A northern European production of the Odyssey is good with me.
This is sooooo very weird.
Then why did you say it? You’d hit her. Is it a language problem?
I am not on the playground swings trying for fake popularity.
You did not coin it. Did a wife beater coin it? Plenty of people repeat anything they hear as a good source.
Was that in this thread? I don’t see it, but maybe it was pulled.
DB2
I would have thought so as well, but I worked with a number of Greek men (and one woman) for more than 3 decades and none of them were particularly dark.
YES! My watch warned me once about my loud environment. And I didn’t see it in iMax, just regular large screen. But I usually get a loud warning almost every time I am at the theater … when I use the hand drying blower to dry my hands in the restroom. 
I rated it 8/10 on IMDB where I rate all the movies I see; 1226 of them so far. I found that some of the scenes were longer than necessary and could have been cut back a bit, but Nolan likes to make epics, and I strongly suspect that he believes epics must be long.
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“Dark” isn’t the word I would use, but “swarthy” definitely is.
None of them were at all swarthy.