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A filmmaker thus faces a choice about the voice to use, with no scriptural guidance to work from. This conflicts with the filmmaker's perceived task, in the case of biblical epics, of presenting scripture without interpretation or exegesis. [2] God's voice is generally cast in biblical epics and similar movies to provide a sense of authority.
A category for representations of Christianity in mainstream popular culture. For subjects produced explicitly as Christian, see Category:Christian culture and Category:Christian media . See also: Category:Bible in popular culture
The second and third lines are references to Samson's death, while Cecil B. Demille is the director who made the movie depicting the Samson story. Michael Hurd's pop cantata "Swingin' Samson" (1973) is a toned-down children's musical version of the story.
The title of Agatha Christie's 1961 novel The Pale Horse is an allusion to Revelation 6:8, where it is the horse ridden by Death. In Army of Darkness comics, published first by Dark Horse Comics and then Dynamite Entertainment, Ash is faced with the Four Horsemen. In DC Comics, the Four Horsemen of Apokolips were foretold in the Crime Bible.
Western culture in general and Anglo-American culture in particular is a bibliocentric culture. It often trades in allusions to the Christian Bible, [2] the influential works of Early Modern English such as works of William Shakespeare, the Thomas Cranmer Book of Common Prayer, Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry, and many others. Knowledge of these ...
A Christ figure, also known as a Christ-Image, is a literary technique that the author uses to draw allusions between their characters and the biblical Jesus.More loosely, the Christ figure is a spiritual or prophetic character who parallels Jesus, or other spiritual or prophetic figures.