
Rick Richman - Hollywood and the Land, People and State of Israel Ep. 98
Good Faith Effort
Hollywood Version of the Story of Exodus
The novel is 600 pages long. The movie obviously to be seen for an hour, two hours, maybe three hours at most and to create mass entertainment. And so the Hollywood version of the story of Exodus becomes in effect a Western cowboy movie instead of a movie of Jewish history. Everybody who was of a certain age remembers the music from the movie and later on the Pat Boone lyrics that were added to the score. But they don't remember the movie itself. It simply captured what happened in 1948 and was in a certain sense a beautiful hope or prayer for peace. As we all know in the last 70 years that hasn't happened.
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