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posted 18 years ago by zwag
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Hello everybody,
Is this the movie about David where Sameul kisses him on both cheeks and on the lips for tow or three seconds? To start with I was taken back by this because they kissed that long. But the more I thought about it, the more beautiful it became. I had been scouring the net for some time looking for counties where men kiss on the lips as a greeting only. I've looked for videos that I can watch online of men greeting like this and haven't been able to find any.

I saw the movie on TBN but I don't konw the name of it, because I didn't see it when it first came on. The second time I watched the movie, when it got to taht part, just after he had kissed DAvid on both cheeks, I turned it off before they kissed on the lips because I was still just a little bit bothered by them kissing so long. But since that time, TBN has never shown the movie, and i wish I would have watched those two men kiss. I think it is the same movie I saw on TBN that I'm talking about because I noticed in the picture on this site of the DVD or video, the man that is shown as David on the cover doesn't look like he's combed his hair. That's the way he looked just before Sameul kissed him on the cheeks and lips. Also, does anyone know if there's a vidoe clip of this part of the movie online?

Even though they kissed as long as they did, thank God not any longer, I think it was only as a greeting because Samuel had his hands on David's shoulders or his arms around his neck, while David just stands there not hugging him back, bu tlet's Samuel kiss him.

[–] cos-9 18 years ago

zwag,

The movie that you are thinking of is the 6th installment in what is known as the Bible Collection or Bible Series, and it is simply entitled David. You can find it on IMDB here:
http://boards.imdb.com/title/tt0118933/
The movie that these Boards are for - King David - has never been shown on TBN, and I doubt that it ever will.
As to the practice depicted that you have expressed an interest in, it is customary in many cultures and societies throughout the World for men to show a great deal more physical affection to each other than one normally sees in English speaking countries and it is not interpreted as being remotely sexual in any way.
This includes holding hands, walking arm-in-arm, kissing on the cheeks and on the lips, and frequent hugs in which the two participants draw each other in quite close, squeeze each other tightly, and hold it for a long time.
Such is especially true throughout the Near & Middle East and those countries in Europe that border the Mediterranean, Tyrrhenian, Adriatic, Ionian, and Aegean Seas. As far as we can tell from ancient texts and artwork, this has always been the case. Therefore, we should expect to see it taking place in any movie depicting Biblical events.
In fact, we see many examples of just such a practice mentioned throughout the Bible.
We see it mentioned in the following places in Genesis in connection with the stories of Jacob & Joseph:
27:26-27, 29:13, 33:4, 45:15, 48:10, 50:1
We see it mentioned in Exodus (4:27, 18:7) a couple of times in incidents in the life of Moses.
We see it mentioned in the following passages that have to do with the lives of David himself and those around him:
I Samuel 10:1, 20:41
II Samuel 14:33, 15:5, 19:39, 20:9
In Luke, Jesus expresses disappointment that a man who had Jesus over for dinner did not kiss Jesus, as was common practice for a host to do to his guests (7:45). Also in Luke, in one of Jesus’ most famous parables - the one usually known as The Prodigal Son (but I think that a better name for it would be “The Story Of The Loving & Forgiving Father”) - Jesus mentions the Father kissing his adult son when the son finally returns home (15:20).
There is also what is perhaps the most memorable kiss in the Bible - the one with which Judas betrays Jesus. It can be found in Matthew 26:48-49, Mark 14:44-45, and Luke 22:47-48.
The writers of the New Testament Letters often ended with a command to “greet” or “salute” “one another” or “all the brothers” “with a holy kiss” or “ a kiss of love” or “of charity”. See Romans 16:16, I Corinthians 16:20, II Corinthians 13:12, I Thessalonians 5:26, and I Peter 5:14 for examples.
I’m sure that there are other Biblical examples of this as well.
I hope that this helps.

[–] vandreferreiramonteiro 17 years ago

I remember a reteling of Tristan and Isolde in which Tristan is kissed as a form of saying goodbye by another knight, Dinas de Lindan (a may have spelled wrongly the name), when Dinas is going to cover his retreate from king Mark's armies (so I think the celts where open about that).