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  1. Meet Troubled Teenage Jesus In ‘The Carpenter’s Son’ Based On Obscure Gospel

    Scenes from the movies The Carpenter's Son and Trifole

    Can you market to a mainstream genre crowd and an open-minded faith-based audience simultaneously? Magnolia is trying just that with The Carpenter’s Son, writer and director Lotfy Nathan’s life of teenage Jesus story based on The Infancy Gospel of Thomas, a obscure apocryphal gospel.

    The film stars Nicolas Cage and FKA Twigs as Joseph and Mary, Noah Jupe as Jesus and Isla Johnston as a mysterious stranger who targets the family in a remote settlement in Roman-era Egypt. With every pull of temptation, the boy is lured into a forbidden world as terrified Joseph realizes that a demonic power is at work. Violent, unnatural events inexplicably follow Jesus, and he begins to experience nightmarish visions of the future. Finally, he learns the fearsome truth about his new playmate.

    “There isn’t a clear kind of genre to hang it on,” said Lotfy. “It’s a sort of an experiment for me in trying to tow both lines. It’s not an out-and-out horror film by any means. I didn’t have any interest in making that because I just don’t think it would fit the subject matter. It’s really just trying to color in what could be an origin story, to fill in the blanks.”

     

  2. 20 hours ago, Hook1997 said:

    Going to someone’s house with HBO or Cable even was always looked forward to as a kid. (I did go to grannies in town a lot for cable access) We lived in the country and had an antenna until I was 15 when my dad finally got direct TV. We weren't poor, my dad just saw no point in getting one of those huge dishes. Then I finally talked him into Direct TV.  

    Same situation, but prior to satellite so no option but antenna. I house sat my boss's apartment for a week for free just to watch HBO and order food delivery.

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