The Bible (1966)
With a full cast, a very familiar title, and epic-style directing from John Huston, how could The Bible: In the Beginning bomb at the box office? Somehow it did, and Huston never made the intended sequel. The film merely focuses on the stories from Genesis. Some vignettes are longer than others, namely the Abraham sequence. George C. Scott probably insisted on it. Speaking of insistence, in addition to playing Noah, Huston also narrates and provides the voice of God.
One of the very interesting parts of the movie is Toshiro Mayzumi’s score. While not particularly pleasant to listen to, he had a brilliant intention: to create music that wasn’t really music. Rather than the traditional biblical themes of Miklos Rozsa or writing early Renaissance music, the atonal notes are effective to the story and don’t give the audience any previous association.
There’s so much attention to detail in the sets and costumes, but the pace is incredibly slow. If you don’t like it in the beginning, no pun intended, you’ll be bored to tears the rest of the three hours. Those who do decide to stick with it will see Ava Gardner looking vulnerable and very frightened of her onscreen husband (and with good reason), interesting lights and shadows during the Adam and Eve sequence, and some pretty shocking debauchery for 1966 in Sodom and Gomorrah. You’ll see Stephen Boyd wearing tons of eye makeup, Richard Harris showing off his body (again), Peter O’Toole as three faces of an angel, and George C. Scott yelling all the time.
But if you don’t think you’ll like it, you don’t have to sit through this three-hour movie. You can see the cast elsewhere. George C. Scott is always yelling in his movies. Richard Harris always takes his clothes off, and Peter O’Toole always looks cute. You can just pretend you saw this one; I won’t tell anyone.
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More Ava Gardner movies here!
More Richard Harris movies here!
More George C. Scott movies here!
One of the very interesting parts of the movie is Toshiro Mayzumi’s score. While not particularly pleasant to listen to, he had a brilliant intention: to create music that wasn’t really music. Rather than the traditional biblical themes of Miklos Rozsa or writing early Renaissance music, the atonal notes are effective to the story and don’t give the audience any previous association.
There’s so much attention to detail in the sets and costumes, but the pace is incredibly slow. If you don’t like it in the beginning, no pun intended, you’ll be bored to tears the rest of the three hours. Those who do decide to stick with it will see Ava Gardner looking vulnerable and very frightened of her onscreen husband (and with good reason), interesting lights and shadows during the Adam and Eve sequence, and some pretty shocking debauchery for 1966 in Sodom and Gomorrah. You’ll see Stephen Boyd wearing tons of eye makeup, Richard Harris showing off his body (again), Peter O’Toole as three faces of an angel, and George C. Scott yelling all the time.
But if you don’t think you’ll like it, you don’t have to sit through this three-hour movie. You can see the cast elsewhere. George C. Scott is always yelling in his movies. Richard Harris always takes his clothes off, and Peter O’Toole always looks cute. You can just pretend you saw this one; I won’t tell anyone.
Want to watch it? Click here to see it on ok.ru and thanks "Merrigan Able" for posting!
More Ava Gardner movies here!
More Richard Harris movies here!
More George C. Scott movies here!