Praise him: 10 times the movies turned biblical figures into sex symbols
Renaissance paintings—media has depicted Jesus as being pretty toned, no? In other words, the body of Christ compels us.Which had us thinking: It’s not just Jesus.
No, over the years, various attempts have been made to bring biblical stories to the big screen, and in the process, actors have played the figures from these stories as total hunks.
Moses, Samson, Joseph and that amazing technicolor dreamcoat—even Adam, the Original Twink—all of them could get it (that is, if their cinematic portrayals are actually historically accurate).This Holy Week, we present to you an unholy list of 10 times that movies depicted a biblical character as so hot that they had us doing penance.
Pray for us.View Full PostFirst off, a double-whammy and a shrewd moment of separating the art from the artist. We certainly don’t want to be singing the praises of a gun-loving former NRA president, but g*dd*mn (forgive us) did Heston look bangin’ in these two back-to-back biblical epics.
