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Article: King David I.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- May 3, 1985
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THIS IS no age for Biblical films. It is only partly a matter of the secularization and skepticism of the audience; more to the point, Biblical films were, in the De Mille days, excuses for lush historical spectacles, violence, and orgiastic sex. The historical spectacle, however, has moved over into the future, our Punic wars having become star wars; the violence has moved into the present--our streets, homes, countryside bursting with it. Sex no longer needs the pretext of pharaohs and Roman emperors to be endemic and frenetic: Skirts and trousers are shed as readily as togas and peploses. And the Good Book has largely gone the way of other good books in the age of ...