Last night I ran across a movie and made a peculiar correlation.
In 1998 AD the movie Wag the Dog was released. It was directed by Barry Levinson and stars Dustin Hoffman as Stanley Motss, Robert De Niro as Conrad Brean, Anne Heche as Winifred Ames, Denis Leary as Fad King, et al. Here is a description:
When the president of the United States is about to get caught in a sex scandal 14 days from the election it is time to create a war. Perception and reality, life and death all flow from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
The very next year the president of the United States, Bill Clinton, was about to get caught in a sex scandal involving Monica Lewinsky and got America involved in a Serbian war (Hillary Clinton initially called the sex scandal charges a “vast right wing conspiracy”): the US bombed Kosovo.
Well, in 2001 AD the movie The Body was released. It was directed by Jonas McCord and stars Antonio Banderas as Father Matt Gutierrez, Olivia Williams as Sharon Golban, Derek Jacobi as Father Lavelle, Jason Flemyng as Father Walter Winstead, et al. Here is a description:
An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man’s tomb. Coloration of the wrist and leg bones indicates the cause of death was crucifixion. Other signs, include a gold coin bearing the marks of Pontius Pilate and faint markings around the skull, lead authorities to suspect that these could be the bones of Christ. Politicians, clerics, religious extremists and those using terror as a means to an end, find their beliefs and identities test while risking their lives to unearth the truth.
Well in 2007 AD the documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus was released. It was produced by James Cameron (about whom you can read here) and directed by Simcha Jacobovici. The Discovery Channel which aired it describes it as, “Part archaeological adventure, part Biblical history, part forensic science, part theological controversy.”
But to what did it pertain? A more basic The Body story line. I ended up reporting on it as you can read in The Lost Tomb of Jesus.
The age old question remains: does life imitate art or doe art imitate life—or is this a false dichotomy?
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