... AND GOD SPOKE
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Release Date: November 29th, 1999
Starring: Michael Riley, Stephen Rappaport, Tamara Mello, Ashlie Rhey, Monique Paurnet, Lisa Sutton, Lou Ferrigno, Andy Dick, Eve Plumb, & Soupy Sales
Genre: Comedy
Audience: Adults
Rating: R
Runtime: Adults
Distributor: LIVE Entertainment, Inc.
Director: Arthur Borman
Producer: Mark Borman & Richard Raddon
Writer: Mark Borman & Richard Raddon
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Content:
(AB, LLL, NN, A, M) Anti-biblical worldview; 21 obscenities, 22 profanities & use of the Lord's Name as a character throughout; partial female & rear male nudity; alcohol use; and, cigarette smoking.
Summary:
...AND GOD SPOKE is a comedy about the making of a fictitious movie with the same title. Two B-level filmmakers decide to make a biblical epic, since movies about the Bible "do well, especially in the South." The movie tracks the team's doomed efforts from their failure to cast any truly big stars to their eventual drumming by the critics, and it ultimately suffers the same fate as the movie about the movie: namely, no knowledge about its subject, the Bible, so it crosses the line to offend believers at several points.
Review:
... AND GOD SPOKE is a comedy about the making of a fictitious movie with the same title. A B-level film director, Clive, and his producer, Marvin, decide that their next film will be a biblical epic, since movies about the Bible "do well, especially in the South." The film tracks the team's doomed efforts to capture the Bible in one movie, from their failure to cast any truly big stars to their eventual drumming by the critics, and suffers the same fate as the movie about the movie: namely, no knowledge about the subject: the Bible.
Clive and Marvin have established their movies as their idol, as shown in the mock prayer on the first day of shooting: "For film is our kingdom, and our power and our glory." When the movie fails, so do the lives of the filmmakers; their happiness is tied to their idol. How ironic that the pair with such a tenuous hold on life should devote their lives to making a movie about a book, when they should devote their lives to The Book! This movie about the making of a movie shows a lack of awareness of what is sacred about the Bible, and therefore crosses the line to offend the believer at several points. ... AND GOD SPOKE is the perfect example of how mistaken those are who attempt to use the Bible for their own purposes, rather than to live for the purposes espoused in the Bible.
Clive and Marvin have established their movies as their idol, as shown in the mock prayer on the first day of shooting: "For film is our kingdom, and our power and our glory." When the movie fails, so do the lives of the filmmakers; their happiness is tied to their idol. How ironic that the pair with such a tenuous hold on life should devote their lives to making a movie about a book, when they should devote their lives to The Book! This movie about the making of a movie shows a lack of awareness of what is sacred about the Bible, and therefore crosses the line to offend the believer at several points. ... AND GOD SPOKE is the perfect example of how mistaken those are who attempt to use the Bible for their own purposes, rather than to live for the purposes espoused in the Bible.
