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Come Sunday centers on Carlton Pearson (Chiwetel Ejiofor), who is a successful and charismatic Pentecostal preacher in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He belongs to the prosperity gospel movement, which promotes the idea that faith can bring about material success and personal wealth, and he has a sizable congregation. When Pearson gets a discovery that contradicts his long-held convictions, however, his life takes a drastic shift.
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Reed Birney, Ann Dowd, Jason Isaacs, and Martha Plimpton all give moving performances of parents dealing with grief and hurt. The four of them create a lasting tension in the room together that makes trudging through their feelings difficult and volatile. Despite overwhelmingly positive response from critics as well as audiences (the audience score on Rotten Tomatoes is 91%), Mass more or less went under the radar upon release. It's one of the most powerful drama movies so far this decade, a gut punch about grace and redemption.
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Suddenly we would have a chance to say something vulnerable, honest, and profound. But as long as Christian films are motivated by a desire to trap people into hearing a gospel presentation, or as a consolation for losing the culture war, they should not make the final cut.
I don't mean that these projects aren't carried about by people who know what they're doing with cameras, lighting, etc. The visual quality of Christian movies has definitely increased over the last decade. The caliber of talent on both sides of the camera has increased, as well. So when I say Christian movies aren't made by artists, I don't mean they aren't made by people who are good at their jobs. What I mean is that they are made by people who don't really know what the job ought to be.
Characters in Christian movies don't often sound like people in real life. They sound like Christians imagine (or desire) real life to be. This is why the Christian protagonists are always earnest, even when they "don't have all the answers," and why the non-Christian antagonists always sound like the one-dimensional memes Christians tilt against in their Facebook streams.
Thankfully many Christian movies don't follow those rules any more, but they still prefer narrative tidiness over nuance. There is a kind of prosperity gospel that pervades contemporary Christian art. It's there in CCM radio, of course, and it's all over Christian movies, including the ones based on true stories. The team has to win. The sick person has to defy the odds. (If you can get a sick person and a sports team in the same story, you've hit Christian movie gold.) The atheist prof must get owned. The unbelieving spouse must be converted. On and on it goes. Why? Because "if you just believe," you can win.
Every prayer sounds scripted. Every dramatic moment sounds cliched. The pastors sound like the phrases on motivational posters. Christians speak to non-Christians in "gotcha" wisdom, delivering Jesusy fortune-cookie bon mots to souls apparently just a few well-turned phrases away from conversion. The theology of Christian movies can be scribbled on the back of a napkin. It's Christian bookstore coffee mug-level philosophy. It's Christian T-shirt-level aphorizing.
Christian movies are typically made by the same folks who produce weekend services full of applicational pick-me-ups and fog-and-laser inspirational easy-rock. There's not a lot depth in them because there's not a lot of depth behind them.
If you're still reading, you're either agreeing with me or just looking for more evidence of what a heartless curmudgeon I am. But here is something to consider that may surprise everybody: Suppose we actually had a Christian movie that was aesthetically excellent and artistically authentic. It was written with a writer's sensibility, theological depth, the nuance of reality, etc. And then suppose it had clear Christian content in it. Do you think it wouldn't strike so many of us as out of tune with what we expect good movies to be?
Or let's consider this: The gospel always sounds offensive to the world. Maybe Christian movies that articulate faith content clearly are destined to be laughed out of the theater, regardless of the excellence of their cinematic context, if only because the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing.
It\u2019s easy to forget that merely 8 years ago we were still receiving Bible movies like Exodus: Gods and Kings and Noah with every ancient middle-eastern character played by white British actors like Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, and Ben Kingsley. While The Chosen\u2019s cast still mostly consists of Americans and Australians rolling their Rs and doing vaguely-defined Middle Eastern accents, it\u2019s still leaps and bounds closer to authenticity than the vast majority of cheap adaptations in film history.
The Chosen\u2019s showrunner Dallas Jenkins is the son of Jerry Jenkins, the famous (or in some circles, infamous) evangelical novelist who wrote the Left Behind series and catalyzed an entire generation of other evangelicals into believing that \u2018the end times\u2019 were about to begin. Dallas, however, has clearly had some issues with typical evangelical fare from the start. While he maintains that his father\u2019s books had a hugely positive impact, he\u2019s talked openly about the terrible film adaptations of his father\u2019s Left Behind series, and the many ways they fall into the trappings of \u2018bad Christian movies.\u2019 He\u2019s also done his part to cure the cheapness of the Christian movie industry with projects that actually feel like \u2018real movies.\u2019 Dallas\u2019 first feature film, 2017\u2019s The Resurrection of Gavin Stone, was obviously his attempt to remedy some of the problems with religious filmmaking; Gavin Stone is lighthearted and comedic, it pokes fun at the church without putting it down, and the story is told from the perspective of a sympathetic skeptic rather than a goody-two-shoes believer like Josh Wheaton in the God\u2019s Not Dead series.
Ironically, all of this feels lightly reminiscent of the defensive Christian victimhood complex epitomized in movies like God\u2019s Not Dead. In the same breath, Jenkins will mention how the show has one of the highest ratings on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes, and then respond vocally to minor criticisms as though it\u2019s constantly under attack for its bold vision. As mentioned before: this is not The Last Temptation of Christ. The artistic decisions in The Chosen are thoughtful and fresh, but they are also as theologically uncontroversial as possible - which is the only way to maintain such a wide appeal. The show is widely loved in part because it does not do anything as bold or heretical as other recent Biblical movies. It\u2019s just a very well-told adaptation of a very straightforward evangelical interpretation of The Gospels.
After God gave this mandate, Adam and Eve sinned. Their sin distorted and nearly killed human purpose. Christ rescues people through his death and life, then gave his church the Great Commission to disciple others. But it is important precisely because Christ uses this discipleship to restore humans to this original God-exalting purpose. Should Christian-made movies explore only discipleship methods like prayer, promises, and proverbs? Or should we also go beyond into greater, restored-humanity themes?
The counterpoint for all of this drama is gospel music, a lot of it, performed by such well-known singers as Yolanda Adams, Fred Hammond, Martha Munizzi, the "American Idol" finalist Tamyra Gray, and by inspired gospel choirs in full praise mode. If the plot wanders through several predictable situations, and it does, the movie never lingers too long on those developments before cutting back to the best gospel music I've seen on film since "Say Amen, Somebody." Like an Astaire and Rogers musical, this is a movie you don't go to for the dialogue.
These vintage films reflect Biblical history and Christian ideology, while addressing topics that remain relevant to contemporary audiences. Many were crafted by talented Hollywood filmmakers expressly for Christian organizations. Other films with strong spiritual themes were produced by traditional studios for mainstream theatrical and television audiences. Fans of classic movies and Bible history will find them especially appealing. The films remain engaging and inspiring, and richly deserve to be rescued, restored and widely reissued. Enjoy some vintage scenes in this GFA Trailer:
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From the mid-1930s through the late-1980s, 16mm film was a very popular medium for schools, businesses, churches, and parachurch organizations. The Evangelism & Missions Archives has hundreds of movies in these formats (especially 16mm), as well as the production and correspondence files of evangelical film companies. Meant to be shown in church or at church events, these movies were particularly thought to be a means of attracting young people to church.
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