Some Thoughts on Seeing the Film Itself be produced at the Embassy on Most of us in reading the controversy that has arisen over "The King of Kings" must have felt instinctively on the side of those who were against it. "And that for the simple reason, that it seemed impossible to screen such a. story without offence. To say' same thing had been done for years ast in a different medium by the Peasants of Oberammergau was answer because we are all aware, of the discrepancy existing between the orthodox stage and. the silent creen. The human volet, presence and personality carry off much that is impossible for the cinema, And Hollywood is not always guiltless of sentimentality which would jar in annexion with such a subject, There is, further, the objection to the commercializing of the New Testament. That is, perhaps, the point on". which opinions may legitimately vary most. But much may hang upon one invidious word. The New Testament story has been "commercialized" already. in num. Drless books and hundreds of world-famous pictures, the authors of which certainly had their living to make and nobody ha" accused them of being commercially minded. The ultimate test is surely, What is the effect on the mind of the spectator?
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