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Published on Sunday, January 23, 2000 - 7:04am |
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A Small Tidbit About PAUL VERHOEVEN's Background and Passion for making a Historical JESUS CHRIST movie
Hey folks, Harry here with a tidbit of knowledge that you might not have known about everyone's fave filmic Dutchman... Paul Verhoeven. Now it seems a lot of talk backers had a lot of... fun... with the concept of Verhoeven making this type of film, but... well... the man does have the background and passion for the story. Strangely enough, many filmmakers that work in the Horror/Sci-Fi/Fantasy realms actually have quite a bit of religious backgrounds. For example... Guillermo Del Toro often credits catholicism as being the birthplace of much of his love of horror... something about those tortured saits and emaciated visages of Jesus dying on a cross. A lot of people like to laugh at these filmmakers when they take steps to making serious films with serious subject matters, but personally... I'd welcome Verhoeven's vision... Here's John with the Verhoeven biography info...
Harry,
Just a small tidbit, and something not many people are aware of: Paul
Verhoeven is a PhD. in New Testament Studies as well as being a
director. He was even a member of the Jesus Seminar in the 1980's,
which was an attempt to reconstruct (using any and all available
sources, no preference given to the Four Canon Gospels) the historical
Jesus. So, with his background and apparent passion for the topic, he
could really make a great film.
John
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Reader Talkback
Cool Idea! by Vulcan Bob | Jan 23rd, 2000 06:23:02 AM | Hey....Larry Flynt has a
religious background
too....doesn't he? by mademan | Jan 23rd, 2000 06:26:20 AM | How about those surgically
enhanced Apostles! by Roann | Jan 23rd, 2000 06:35:57 AM | Jesus lived his Life in a
cheap Hotel on the edge of
Route 66.He by VUZZ | Jan 23rd, 2000 07:03:09 AM | I don't care about his
background. by Nordling | Jan 23rd, 2000 07:44:26 AM | I love it! by Mr Superbad | Jan 23rd, 2000 09:02:44 AM | Jesus Seminar by not_a_jedi_yet | Jan 23rd, 2000 09:19:06 AM | The Jesus Project was Joke. by Skaught | Jan 23rd, 2000 10:13:24 AM | ED WOOD had a background and
passion for the subject... by stitch | Jan 23rd, 2000 10:14:46 AM | THE JESUS SEMINARS by SCOTT1458 | Jan 23rd, 2000 10:44:20 AM | Of course the Jesus Seminars
have nothing to do with
religion... by Mr Superbad | Jan 23rd, 2000 11:04:24 AM | Vehoeven's gospel by Tortured Soul | Jan 23rd, 2000 12:41:04 PM | Bi-sexual by Reinbo | Jan 23rd, 2000 12:42:03 PM | The Hollow Man by The Cars | Jan 23rd, 2000 12:51:29 PM | SHOWGIRLS as Coming-Of-Age
movie by The Cars | Jan 23rd, 2000 01:01:41 PM | Historical Jesus by HFWeb | Jan 23rd, 2000 01:50:18 PM | SEMINARS by SCOTT1458 | Jan 23rd, 2000 01:56:56 PM | Mere Christianity by Prankster | Jan 23rd, 2000 02:26:46 PM | blahblah Jesus Seminar
blahblah by Mr Superbad | Jan 23rd, 2000 03:24:46 PM | The Robo-Jesus-Cop? by Benke | Jan 23rd, 2000 03:26:02 PM | oh yeah... by Mr Superbad | Jan 23rd, 2000 03:28:41 PM | Keep an open mind by riskebiz | Jan 23rd, 2000 05:22:17 PM | Verhoeven...I love that man... by The Sweeney | Jan 23rd, 2000 07:18:42 PM | The historical Jesus is NOT
the Jesus of the "New
Testament" by quentin69 | Jan 23rd, 2000 08:23:06 PM | Irony, schmirony!!! by stitch | Jan 23rd, 2000 10:04:43 PM | intolerance by norcal | Jan 24th, 2000 02:42:25 AM | Jesus Seminar? I thought that
was a punk band by Efihp | Jan 24th, 2000 03:04:23 AM | The Jesus Seminar=BAD
SCHOLARSHIP, Hence=BAD MOVIE by not_a_jedi_yet | Jan 24th, 2000 03:41:26 AM | I know about the Jesus Seminar by SDG | Jan 24th, 2000 07:49:35 AM | Act of desparation? by not_a_jedi_yet | Jan 24th, 2000 01:43:49 PM | Some background material on
Verhoeven's Jesus by Auda abu Tayi | Jan 24th, 2000 03:13:30 PM | Verhoeven proj is JESUS THE
MAN, not JESUS CHRIST by Duke Ray | Jan 25th, 2000 06:14:21 PM | Good old Verhoeven . . . by Fred Garvin | Jan 26th, 2000 12:12:21 PM |
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