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Did these actors know what they were getting into?

posted 17 years ago by LRolfesCin
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I just ran across this film on the TV, and I was astounded at how bad it is. Apart from the conservative Christian message (which is extremely simplistic, but to each his own), the dialogue was incredibly bad. It took me a while to figure out why the dialogue in the 1890's portion seemed to stilted. Then I realized that there were no contractions being used. People just don't talk like that - then or now. What surprised me the most is that well-established actors like Hal Linden and Jennifer O'Neill were in this thing. Are they conservative Christians, or simply hard up for work?

[–] Chase15425 17 years ago

While I did fine some of the dialogue lacking in fluidity, I think the message was great and very clear. It's actually not all that conservative (and I actually think you mean legalistic). Just simply following God's Word.

[–] runar-4 16 years ago

Yeah, just turn back the clock 100 years and everything will be fine. Why not go for 5 or 6 hundred years? Bring back the inquisition and make heresy and blasphemy capital crimes again (of course that would make being a Protestant punishable by death as well).

[–] Navaros 9 years ago

just turn back the clock 100 years and everything will be fine. Why not go for 5 or 6 hundred years? Bring back the inquisition and make heresy and blasphemy capital crimes again (of course that would make being a Protestant punishable by death as well).

Indeed that would be a problem.

Solution: turn the clock back further, to before the apostate catholic church even existed. Such as to the time of Jesus and the Apostles, when only pure, uncorrupted Christianity existed.

"Science creates fictions to explain facts" - Gilman

[–] zeggman 16 years ago

It was on TV? Good Lord! (eek, blasphemy!) which network was that? I thought the movie was hilariously bad, and a little scary when I stop to consider that a sizable portion of Americans probably actually think this way. 7-year-old children should not be allowed to watch a man and a woman kiss on TV. If Science contradicts the Bible, it is Science which is wrong. So, PI is really 3? I guess if the evidence of your eyes contradicts the Bible, it's your lying eyes which are wrong. Just astonishingly absurd.

I suspect, given the message of the movie, that the producers wouldn't have hired anyone who didn't profess a fundamentalist Christian faith. Heaven forbid (eek! more blasphemy!) that one of the actors in this howler would later go out and say something negative about religion. No, I think no matter how hard up for work they may be (and I haven't seen most of these faces recently, but maybe that's just me), they wouldn't have gotten the gig unless they said they believed this nonsense.

[–] Alexej 13 years ago

What surprised me the most is that well-established actors like Hal Linden and Jennifer O'Neill were in this thing. Are they conservative Christians, or simply hard up for work?

Actors like acting. Especially the good ones. An actor does not have to agree with the character s/he plays, let alone be anything like that character (otherwise, who would ever play a murderer or a fanatic or a traitor or Hitler, etc).

My name is Colin Creevey
and I'm a photoholic.

[–] TimBur77 11 years ago

Gavin Macleod & Jennifer O'Neill are indeed Christians and have appeared in other movies from this same director and company.

http://bat115.hubpages.com/

[–] Navaros 9 years ago

I realized that there were no contractions being used. People just don't talk like that - then or now.

Sure they do. Academics don't use contractions in academic writing. If they did, they would be bad academics. And we are talking about a society of good academics. So them not using contractions makes perfect sense.

at surprised me the most is that well-established actors like Hal Linden and Jennifer O'Neill were in this thing

So you are surprised that a well-established actor could love and obey God?

Granted, acquiring material things and indulging in evil are the priorities for most famous actors...but that doesn't mean that all actors are like that.

"Science creates fictions to explain facts" - Gilman