Post by Martin Stett on Jul 16, 2019 22:58:27 GMT
Hollywood has never really pimped out Bible-based movies, but there's a lot of interesting ground to cover, that you can do in a variety of ways. Aronofsky had Noah (which remains unseen by me, alas), the Coens did a riff on Job in A Serious Man, but I can't think of any others. Feel free to make the stories however you would like: straight adaptations or thematic updates or anything else.
The first thing that comes to mind for me the story of Dinah. Daughter of Jacob who is raped by Shechem, who then falls for her and wants to marry her. Her family doesn't care for this too much and tells Shechem's folks that they'll only allow the marriage (and continued intermarriage between their families) if everyone in Shechem's family gets circumcised. They agree, and while they're nursing their newly circumcised privates, Dinah's brothers Simeon and Levi walk in and kill them all. This sets up some conflict between Jacob being pissed at his sons and afraid for his life for breaking the deal, and his sons arguing that their sister's honor is more important.
That is A LOT of juicy material there, and a modern update would make the story's Shakespearean vengeance and violence pop. Probably something along the lines of the Coen brothers in the sense of it being an ugly sort of Fargo style tragicomedy, is what I'm thinking.
The first thing that comes to mind for me the story of Dinah. Daughter of Jacob who is raped by Shechem, who then falls for her and wants to marry her. Her family doesn't care for this too much and tells Shechem's folks that they'll only allow the marriage (and continued intermarriage between their families) if everyone in Shechem's family gets circumcised. They agree, and while they're nursing their newly circumcised privates, Dinah's brothers Simeon and Levi walk in and kill them all. This sets up some conflict between Jacob being pissed at his sons and afraid for his life for breaking the deal, and his sons arguing that their sister's honor is more important.
That is A LOT of juicy material there, and a modern update would make the story's Shakespearean vengeance and violence pop. Probably something along the lines of the Coen brothers in the sense of it being an ugly sort of Fargo style tragicomedy, is what I'm thinking.
