Film · Pathé · 1927
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The King of Kings
48Watch it awake.
A spectacle around a gospel, not only a sermon and not a mockery of the faith.
The review
DeMille's silent life of Jesus, with H. B. Warner, drew a church and roadshow crowd, not the same ledger as Wings. A house can watch it. I expected either a plain sermon or a joke at the faith's expense. It is a spectacle set around a story the churches already knew.
The piety is the product and also a show. Sensation is added. I will not invent miracles, and a parent narrating shouldn't either. It is not only a sermon, and it is not a history, and it is not a mockery. Keep the gospel you already had distinct from the show he built around it.
Journal
Keep The King of Kings in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 48. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Household and Temperance are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 3Industry
The work on screen is a silent spectacle of a life, not a trade.
- 3Household
A life the churches knew, not a marriage or a child this film has to build.
- 6Piety
The piety is the product and a show, not only a sermon or a mockery.
- 6Courage
The life the churches knew is staged as a show, and the show does not erase it.
- 5Republic
A church and roadshow crowd, not the same public ledger as Wings.
- 4Temperance
DeMille adds sensation around a story the churches already knew.
- 5Truth
It is not a history; a show is wrapped around a gospel, not a record.
- 6Stewardship
A house can watch, and the churches already held the story before him.
Where to watch
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