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Friday Fun Thread for October 3, 2025

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Just finished Passion of the Christ after attempting, and failing, to get back into the Chosen. Something about the story just doesn't click for me.

Recommendations for good Jesus-centered visual media?

Pre-19th century art. For any scene, type scene + renaissance/medieval into google. Can use any terminology related to European art, but ignore everything Romantic and onward. Or even neoclassical and onward. With the exceptions of like William Blake and Gustave Dore it’s junk. For the passion, you can type in any phrase and find accompanying art. There’s probably at least 1000 individual pieces for every sentence of the passion

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/464349

There’s a cool collection of art with descriptions by a Jewish educational fund, too: https://talivisualmidrash.org.il/en/home/

This is less entertaining than a movie, but each piece is greater than any individual frame of a movie. Religious movies just never capture reverence or awe well.

Someone should devise a website that combines the best art, music, poetry and commentaries onto one web page for every scene in the Bible. That would be awesome.

Some of these are amazing, thanks!

Religious movies just never capture reverence or awe well.

I truly wonder if this is it. My thinking is that the Jesus story is just...difficult in its totality if you don't already believe. Individual story beats can make great stories but the totality of the god-man and what he has to do is just...odd (the closer we get to suicide by cop the less interested I was in The Chosen). It is, after all, consciously a subversion of expectations

I guess I'll have to find some Old Testament films to compare.

Old Testament, but The Promised Land is fun and free on Youtube:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HSI04-1oLwg

The travails of Moses and the Israelites in the desert, done in the style of the Office. Funny without being a piss-take.

Thanks, actually pretty funny. I hope it takes off like The Chosen.

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