{"id":43787,"date":"2018-03-29T05:29:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T09:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=43787"},"modified":"2018-03-28T20:30:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T00:30:32","slug":"mary-magdalene-movie-and-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2018\/03\/mary-magdalene-movie-and-music.html","title":{"rendered":"Mary Magdalene Movie and Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2018\/film\/reviews\/mary-magdalene-review-1202710195\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">new movie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2018\/feb\/27\/mary-magdalene-review-rooney-mara-sunday-school-myths\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mary Magdalene<\/a> is one that I\u2019m going to need to see at some point. But some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/review\/mary-magdalene-review-1088785?utm_source=twitter\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">things I\u2019ve read<\/a> and heard do not encourage me to rush to do so. <a href=\"https:\/\/larryhurtado.wordpress.com\/2018\/03\/28\/mary-magdalene-the-film\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\">Larry Hurtado, for instance, blogged about the movie and writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It ought to be difficult to make stories as riveting as those in the Gospels bland and uninteresting. But the Hollywood record largely shows them fully up to the task, and, sadly, this film is no exception. In focusing on the Magdalene, and in not portraying her as a \u201cfallen woman,\u201d the film is technically notable. But, aside from its numerous historical mis-steps, including its characterization of the title figure, it also has to be judged a poor-to-middling movie (as seems reflected in the several newspaper reviews).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was struck by his words all the more because we had Amy-Jill Levine speak at Butler University recently, and she emphasized the history of domestication of Jesus\u2019 words \u2013 making them much tamer and more boring than they would have been originally. I found myself wondering whether I could overcome this and imagine Jesus speaking in a manner as engaging, entertaining, and downright funny as Levine herself was.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianorigins.div.ed.ac.uk\/2018\/03\/07\/joan-taylor-and-helen-bond-talk-mary-magdalene\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Joan Taylor and Helen Bond have also had a conversation about the movie<\/a> that I have yet to listen to.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/biblefilms.blogspot.com\/2018\/03\/mary-magdalene-round-up.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bible Film Blogs<\/a> has had more than one <a href=\"https:\/\/biblefilms.blogspot.com\/2018\/03\/mary-magdalene-2018.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">post about the movie<\/a>, including <a href=\"https:\/\/biblefilms.blogspot.com\/2018\/03\/judas-in-mary-magdalene-2018.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">one focused on Judas<\/a>. That connects us naturally with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2GFTY5f\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Jesus Christ Superstar,<\/em><\/a> which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/entertainment\/tv\/ct-live-jesus-christ-superstar-preview-20180328-story.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">will be on TV on Easter Sunday with a star-studded cast including John Legend, Sara Bareilles, and Alice Cooper<\/a>! That musical tells the story from Judas\u2019 perspective, and it was interesting to discuss it in my class recently, especially after having learned that it would be on TV at Easter. (See also <a href=\"https:\/\/withmeagrepowers.wordpress.com\/2018\/03\/29\/why-did-jesus-die-3\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">George Athas\u2019 recent blog post about the musical<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Mary Magdalene interested me in connection with my course on the Bible and music as soon as I heard about it, since I heard that the <a href=\"http:\/\/filmmusicreporter.com\/2018\/03\/22\/mary-magdalene-soundtrack-details\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">soundtrack<\/a> composers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/johann-johannsson-collaborator-hildur-gudnadottir-remembers-her-musical-soulmate-1085072\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hildur Gu\u00f0nad\u00f3ttir<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2018\/02\/johann-johannsson-dies-obituary-the-theory-of-everything-composer-1202284591\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">J\u00f3hann J\u00f3hannsson<\/a> had drawn on the Psalms in their work (and of course, simply by being the film score for a film on this topic, their work would be relevant!)<\/p>\n<p>Have you seen the new Mary Magdalene movie yet? If so, what are your thoughts about it?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"yxAAYb7gh0\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/anxiousbench\/2018\/03\/mary-magdalenes-myth-latest-chapter\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Magdalene\u2019s Myth: The Latest Chapter<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cMary Magdalene\u2019s Myth: The Latest Chapter\u201d \u2014 Anxious Bench\" src=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/anxiousbench\/2018\/03\/mary-magdalenes-myth-latest-chapter\/embed\/#?secret=wfxnp3m834#?secret=yxAAYb7gh0\" data-secret=\"yxAAYb7gh0\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hildur Gudnadottir & Johann Johannsson - The Mustard Seed (Mary Magdalene Soundtrack)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xzbdbb4EYm8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new movie Mary Magdalene is one that I\u2019m going to need to see at some point. 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