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But of course, the filmmakers must have reasoned, in the Bible Abraham is left out of the destruction of Sodom episode, so if we want to make a film about that, then we're going to have to make Lot the hero. There are various stories in Genesis which reflect badly on Abraham, but in his dealings with Lot he always comes out smelling of roses. We first hear of him as he and his men are falling out with his uncle (Abraham), then he gets himself captured and needs Abraham to come and rescue him, before settling into a Godless city and only just managing to escape before it suffers and almighty smiting. Lot is very much a minor figure in the Bible, and certainly no kind of hero. In fact the finished film betrays the likelihood that it was conceived primarily because of it's potential for titillating material. Barely a scene goes by without a dance from a group of scantily clad women or some beefy man flexing his muscles. Given this tendency within epic films in general, it's hardly surprising that one about Sodom of Gomorrah takes it to extremes. The wealth of biblical cross referencing perhaps also reflects the film's wealth of mildly erotic material. It's often been noted how Biblical epics have often sought to satisfy the audience's thirst for titillation and violence whilst simultaneously soothing any qualms they have about the material by including moments of piety and some form of "moral" conclusion. There are numerous debates about slavery, angry prophets, housebound leopards, enemies being drowned by waves, girls bathing in milk, fights won using slings and stones and chains falling off godly men. The scene - which echoes the complaints Moses faced when the Israelites were in the desert - is the first of many nods to other stories from the Hebrew Bible and their cinematic interpretations. Lot is leading a large group of people through the desert and already he is facing dissent from within his own camp. The film starts at some point after the events of Genesis 13, indeed the story of Lot and Abraham's separation is told by a narrator a couple of minutes into the film.

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That said, what the script writers were forced to leave out, the costuming department more than compensated for with a series of male tunics so short that they stretch little but the audience's credulity.

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In fairness, attempted angel-rape was probably a little strong for the production code era, which forbade even the mention of homosexuality. It's undoubtedly a fair point: the story of Lot, Sodom and Gomorrah lasts for only three chapters of Genesis (13, 14 and 19) - not much material for a 150 minute film - yet nearly all of the biblical story, including the moment for which the cities were judged, was somehow omitted. Stephen Lang, in his "The Bible on the Big Screen", subtitles Robert Aldrich's Sodom of Gomorrah "Not the Sin We Expected". More generally I've given a number of talks / led through groups on Jesus in Film and was a consultant for the Channel 4 documentary The Passion : Films, Faith and Fury. I have also written for various other publications including rejesus.

I've also contributing to various edited works including " T&T Clark Handbook to Jesus and Film" (2021), " The Bible Onscreen in the New Millennium", " The T&T Clark Companion to the Bible and Film" (2018) and "The Bible in Motion" (2016).

I've studying the Bible on Film for twenty years, with my first book "100 Bible Films" (BFI) due out in May 2022.

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