"Religion Drama." . . "Evangelicalism Drama." . . "Literature." . . "Films." . . "New Line Cinema Corporation." . . "Existentialism in literature." . . "Irreligion." . . "Ithaca (Ditta)" . . "Poor families Drama." . . "Doctrinal preaching." . . . . . . "In this acclaimed adaptation of the first novel by legendary Southern writer Flannery O'Connor, John Huston vividly brings to life her poetic world of American eccentricity. Brad Dourif, in an impassioned performance, is Hazel Motes, who, fresh out of the army, attempts to open the first Church without Christ in the small town of Taulkinham. Populated with inspired performances that seem to spring right from O'Connor's pages, Huston's Wise blood is an incisive portrait of spirituality and Evangelicalism, and a faithful, loving evocation of a writer's vision."@en . . . . . "In this acclaimed adaptation of the first novel by legendary Southern writer Flannery O'Connor, John Huston vividly brings to life her poetic world of American eccentricity. Brad Dourif, in an impassioned performance, is Hazel Motes, who, fresh out of the army, attempts to open the first Church Without Christ in the small town of Taulkinham. Populated with inspired performances that seem to spring right from O'Connor's pages, Huston's Wise Blood is an incisive portrait of spirituality and Evangelicalism, and a faithful, loving evocation of a writer's vision."@en . . . . . . . . "\"A Southerner -- young, poor, ambitious but uneducated -- determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.--Internet Movie Database."@en . "Feature films"@en . "Feature films" . . "Drama"@en . "Drama" . . . . . . . . "John Huston's wise blood"@en . . "John Huston's wise blood" . "A man who has recently left the army attempts to become a preacher and open up his very own church without Christ." . . "A darkly comic tale of a young southerner's furious soul-searchings. Hazel Motes, an Army veteran, returns from overseas to the abandoned Tennessee farmhouse of his youth. He embarks on a picaresque journey in the rural South to find salvation among misfits and religious charlatans. (Does not circulate)." . . "Wise blood"@en . "Wise blood" . . "Adaptación de la novela \"Sangre sabia\", de Flannery O'Connor, sobre un atormentado y fanático predicador que, desencantado del mundo, decide fundar su propia y particular iglesia: la Iglesia sin Cristo." . . "Llargmetratges" . . "U.S. Army war veteran Hazel Motes may not be a believing Christian, but he somehow makes observations about the state of a run-down country church and understands that there are ridiculous frauds on the streets. Memories inspire him to take up, after initially refusing, to take on the part of a traveling preacher when a cab driver insists he looks like one in his new hat. He starts his own new Church of Truth, without the crucified Jesus. His first disciple is an 18-year old simpleton with a 'prophetic gift.'" . . . . . . . . "Jhon Huston's wise blood"@en . . . . . . . "Story of the career of a confused religious fanatic who attempts to found a church without salvation. While spreading his twisted religious message, he encounters a variety of unsavory would-be followers, one of whom eventually seals his own tragic fate."@en . "Nel Sud degli Stati Uniti, un giovane povero e ambizioso cerca fortuna come profeta di una nuova chiesa fondata da lui stesso." . "Le malin" . . "Fiction films" . "Fiction films"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Traces the strange career of a twisted religious fanatic who attempts to found his own church."@en . "Traces the career of a religious fanatic who attempts to found a church without salvation." . "wise blood" . "Film adaptations" . "Film adaptations"@en . . . . "John Huston's Wise blood"@en . "John Huston's Wise blood" . . . . . "Wise blood (Film)" . . "Sangre sabia" . . . . . . . . . "Film excerpts"@en . . . "Religious films" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "A tale of rampant Southern evangelism, mixing Southern gothic and bleak humour, as a would-be mystic with a one track, hopelessly literal mind stages a doomed private rebellion against the evangelism and repression of his upbringing. The central character, Hazel Moates, takes up the evangelical game and tries to play it according to his own rules ('the Church without Christ') but ironically, in the process, ensures his own destruction, imitating Christ's martyrdom. Along with the uniformly excellent cast, the real strength of the film is Huston's refusal of caricature although Moates' total humourlessness invites it. Huston does not belabour or exploit the paradoxes at the film's centre but delineates the relationship between the characters and the world in which they move in a particularly interesting way."@en . . . . . . . "Wise blood (Pel·lícula cinematogràfica)" . . . . . "John Huston's Wise Blood" . . . "Wise blood (Excerpt : [1979?])"@en . . . "Hazel Motes, a young Army veteran returns home from the war in Vietnam, and becomes obsessed with the idea of founding a Church of Christ without Christ. While spreading his religious message, he encounters a variety of unsavory characters and would-be followers. Based on Flannery O'Connor's 1952 novel, the film retains O'Connor's gothic vision of an American south frozen in time and held hostage by messianic Christianity. Director John Huston's affection for American misfits is evident in this darkly comic view of human foibles writ large. Hazel Mote's success as a preacher is minimal, small crowds listen to him as he rants from the hood of his battered car, but only a select few are taken in by his creed: \"I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.\" Flannery O'Connor had this to say about her emphasis on the grotesque in her writing: \"Anything that comes out of the south is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic\"."@en . "Wise blood (Motion picture)"@en . "U.S. Army war veteran Hazel Motes may not be a believing Christian, but he somehow makes observations about the state of a run-down country church and understands that there are ridiculous frauds on the streets. When a cab driver insists he looks like a preacher in his new hat, Hazel takes on the part. He starts his own new Church of Truth, without the crucified Jesus. His first disciple is an 18-year old simpleton with a 'prophetic gift.'" . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Petit-fils de prédicateur, Hazel Motes revient de guerre sans intentions précises, mais adopte une tenue civile qui l'apparente aux prêcheurs ambulants. De curieux personnages s'attachent à lui tels Asa Hawks, qui feint la cécité pour soutenir ses discours enflammés, sa fille Sabbath Lily, tentatrice ingénue, et le jeune Enoch, solitaire tourmenté. Comme par réaction, Hazel se met à prêcher une église sans Christ. Exacerbé par ses contradictions internes, Hazel se rend aveugle volontairement." . . . . . "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en . "Video recordings for the hearing impaired" . . . . . . "Wise blood (Motion picture : 1980)"@en . . . . . . . . . . . "Evangelicalism." . . "Anthea (Ditta)" . . "Veterans." . . "Veterans United States Drama." . . "Rural churches Southern States Drama." . . "Wise blood (O'Connor, Flannery)" . . "Poor families." . . 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