Just saw the trailer for the film 'Son of God.'
Ok, this is 2014. A huge amount of scholarship has been done on whether there was a historical Jesus. Not a little of this work has focused on his appearance. The general consensus is that he would have been short (by modern standards) with brown eyes, olive skin, and black hair, close-cropped and - probably - curly.
So WHY do films insist on still making him look like Cesare Borgia??
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Boru
Ok, this is 2014. A huge amount of scholarship has been done on whether there was a historical Jesus. Not a little of this work has focused on his appearance. The general consensus is that he would have been short (by modern standards) with brown eyes, olive skin, and black hair, close-cropped and - probably - curly.
So WHY do films insist on still making him look like Cesare Borgia??
Boru
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