David and bathsheba story in the bible

To see all the Movie Club entries, visit www. Hollywood icon Darryl F. Zanuck demanded his own biblical epic, and he certainly got one.

David and bathsheba verse

Susan Hayward gives Bathsheba a fuller and more complex personality than one might expect. When their sins are discovered, it is she more than David who accepts the reality of their transgressions. In the film, David makes a show of saying the right things and she openly says she intentionally tried to entice him and wants to be his wife. Hollywood then was much more interested in telling a story of illicit passion than a story of sin.

I have a feeling David would come off looking much worse in a remake. He first sinned as he held his initial gaze on her, and that led to — at the very minimum — adultery, lying, murder, heartbreak, the deaths of his sons and eventually a divided kingdom. We get many scenes that come purely from the imagination and not 2 Samuel. I liked it. A lot.

King david (1985 full movie)

It shows how we can become comfortable in our own blatant sin. Peck in particular shows why he was Hollywood royalty. The bathing scene takes place either at a distance so as to be blurry, or behind a screen. As a whole, the movie is more modest than many of its classic peers. Contact Us Classifieds About Home.