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...film's British producer, John Heyman (The Go-Between), who comes from a Jewish background, decribes Je sus as not a conventional "movie movie" but a "translation" of the Gospel into a new medium. Jesus is not church-basement fare, however. It was produced on a sizable budget ($6 million) with a cast that includes more than 5,000 extras, and meticulous attention to authenticity. All the filming was done in the Holy Land, and a Sanhedrin of Bible scholars and other experts was consulted on costumes, sets and historical sites. The film deals frankly with the signs...
...project is being funded without a sou from a synagogue or a church. A straight commercial venture, it is backed by 18 wealthy businessmen, most of them British and American, who have already anted up $5 million. The startup money came from John Heyman, 43, a self-described "inactive Jew," who has produced more than 40 feature films, including The Go-Between and The Hireling. Now he works full time as chief executive of the Genesis Project: "It was a unique opportunity to share my ability as a film maker as opposed to putting on another piece of slurp...
...film the story of Noah? Heyman opted for a sketchy style of animation, with surrealistic clouds and waves, and cartoon rabbits and lions clambering aboard the ark. The budget did not permit construction of the ark nor the assembling of all God's creatures. For the Creation story, Heyman wove together spectacular color footage of the sun and stars, flowing lava, beasts on the Kenya highlands and fish and flora along an ocean floor. In Eden, Adam and Eve are discreetly nude, and without navels. Heyman insists that he will film every jot and tittle...
...attempt to be as literally accurate as we can possibly be," says Heyman. "We don't make up any dialogue." The actors speak their lines verbatim from the Bible, using the languages their characters would have used, though the producers have taken some liberties. Adam and Eve mouth words silently; Abraham speaks Hebrew; Luke, Greek. The voice-over is a word-for-word reading of the Bible in English by such narrators as Alexander Scourby and Orson Welles. The sound track is available in three versions: King James, Revised Standard and New American...
...triggers the mechanics of the play by making a secret loan to Nora and then writing her husband a letter about it, Krogstadt should be ominous. Yet Heyman merely huffs and puffs like a March wind. Dr. Rank, Nora's platonic admirer, is dying of hereditary syphilis and is in considerable agony. No one has apparently mentioned this to Michael Granger, who plays the doctor as if he were an aging boulevardier with a head cold...