Pope Joan (2009)
A movie about a woman who became the pope. I guess the only interesting part of this movie is how they recreated the medieval times.
It's another movie in which the makers seemed to believe in the movie, although the story is on the level of a children's picture book. It's a straightforward story of a woman who we follow from the moment of birth and who is smart and honest and who pretends to be a man in order to become the pope. And it's so easy to write a character that will succeed in the medieval hierarchy: just write him or her as someone who doesn't take the silly medieval science for granted, so she'll see that the medieval medicine is a joke and automatically be able to heal an important person, thus gaining his trust and quickly advancing.
A movie about a woman who became the pope. I guess the only interesting part of this movie is how they recreated the medieval times.
It's another movie in which the makers seemed to believe in the movie, although the story is on the level of a children's picture book. It's a straightforward story of a woman who we follow from the moment of birth and who is smart and honest and who pretends to be a man in order to become the pope. And it's so easy to write a character that will succeed in the medieval hierarchy: just write him or her as someone who doesn't take the silly medieval science for granted, so she'll see that the medieval medicine is a joke and automatically be able to heal an important person, thus gaining his trust and quickly advancing.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
