Pasolini's Pauls
Because Pier Paolo Pasolini never completed his movie Saint Paul, any discussion of it must be speculative. However, insofar as the film appears in Pasolini's screenplay outline and plan, it depicts Paul, in relation to the Pauline writings of the Bible, as a seriously fragmented person. This P...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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Biblical interpretation
Year: 2019, Volume: 27, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 496-506 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Pasolini, Pier Paolo 1922-1975
/ Film
/ Paul Apostle
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament RH Evangelization; Christian media |
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Simulacrum
B Translation B Pasolini B Paul B Harmonization |
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| Summary: | Because Pier Paolo Pasolini never completed his movie Saint Paul, any discussion of it must be speculative. However, insofar as the film appears in Pasolini's screenplay outline and plan, it depicts Paul, in relation to the Pauline writings of the Bible, as a seriously fragmented person. This Paul struggles with multiple personalities that are continually fragmenting and at war with one another. In this way the film fuses together in a single cinematic narrative the many "Pauls" who appear in the Pauline letters and the Acts of the Apostles. The "remixed" quality that then appears in the screenplay contrasts sharply to Pasolini's The Gospel According to St. Matthew. The resulting story echoes some of the writings of Italo Calvino, as well as Spike Jonze's movie Adaptation. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5152 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Biblical interpretation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685152-02745P02 |