BC in The Book of Clarence - Some spoilers

SPOILERS

I remember some old Mexican bíblical films in which everyone was talking like Mexicans with the exception of Jesus who used to have a strong Spanish accent! It probably was just the casting but there was this feeling that only Jesus was talking *real* *proper* Castilian/Spanish. lol

I guess it was similar with some old biblical American films with a strong British cast and/or Americans with very solemn dialogues.

That was hysterical in The Death of Stalin but I guess some people just take more seriously biblical stuff which it’s ironic because I would say that a religious text it’s not necessarily something historical and, at least, Christianism have always be very free with the idea of adapting the text and images to different context (for example taking local legends, myths and religions from evangelized territories and mixing them with Christianism). But I guess there are always some extremists who think their versions is the only one valuable.

Also apparently there is some tone disparity. The Death of Stalin was very obviously a satire making fun of communism and Life of Brian was also an obvious attack to any kind of fanatic out there (religious, right wing and left wing, any type! Ironically, I think a pair of years ago left wing activists would be more angry about it. Especially about the Loretta stuff but nowadays would probably be both sides, the Christians AND the left! lol) I haven’t watched “Clarence” but a few people said it’s not clear if it’s a serious pro religion film or it’s making fun of it. In any case, a diverse of accents should be valid and it’s not something new for biblical films. I guess the difference would be the “solemnity” of those accents!

You know, what’s a bonkers interpretation, tho. I think it was in The Wall Street Journal where the critic wrote that a black Jesus was more historically accurate than a white Jesus. Again, there had been black, indigenous and white Jesus since forever in Christian lore according to the region so it shouldn’t be something polemic but if Jesus was real and lived in that region of the world then he very probably was “brown” not black or white but apparently Americans still think there are just two categories of people in the world: white and blacks. And they should always been clearly limited and defined because if not you are not pure (according to racists) or a “racist” (according to anti-racists who are actually also just good old racists, too).

Some months ago I read a review on a blog that apparently is about biblical adaptations. There is this small extremist group in America that actually believes that the *real* Jews are blacks who had been involved in some recent antisemitics attacks in NY AND one of them actually murdered Martin Luther King’s mother!

This film doesn’t seem to marry that extremist ideology but yeah, according to that blog in this movie the blacks are Jews and the whites are Roman with the big exception of BC’s character! The guy thinks BC is also playing a Jew .