{"id":3075,"date":"2006-01-30T14:23:01","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T19:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2006\/01\/30\/3075"},"modified":"2006-01-30T14:23:01","modified_gmt":"2006-01-30T19:23:01","slug":"son-of-man-film-causes-a-stir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2006\/01\/son-of-man-film-causes-a-stir\/","title":{"rendered":"I can&#8217;t wait to see this!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Son of Man stuns Sundance<\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/weblog\/son-of-man.jpg\" alt=\"Son of Man is the first South African film to appear at the prestigious Sundance Festival\" class=\"pic_100px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/SHOWBIZ\/Movies\/01\/20\/arts.jesus.black.reut\/\" rel=\"external\">SA The Good News:<\/a> &#8220;Accolades are pouring in for Son of Man, a new South African film that sets the life of Jesus Christ in contemporary Africa, after its world premier at the Sundance Film Festival in the US state of Utah on Sunday&#8221;&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/SHOWBIZ\/Movies\/01\/20\/arts.jesus.black.reut\/\" rel=\"external\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Black Jesus film aims to start talk<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sagoodnews.co.za\/search\/culture\/857464.htm\" rel=\"external\">CNN.com:<\/a> &#8220;Billed as the world&#8217;s first black Jesus movie, &#8216;Son of Man&#8217; portrays Christ as a modern African revolutionary and aims to shatter the Western image of a placid savior with fair hair and blue eyes.<\/p>\n<p>The South African film, which premieres on Sunday at the Sundance festival in Utah, transports the life and death of Christ from first century Palestine to a contemporary African state racked by war and poverty&#8221;&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sagoodnews.co.za\/search\/culture\/857464.htm\" rel=\"external\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>First SA film for Sundance<\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/weblog\/son-of-man-angel.jpg\" alt=\"The angels in Son of Man are small African boys with a few feathers attached here and there. James Anthony plays Gabriel\" class=\"pic_100px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southafrica.info\/what_happening\/arts_entertainment\/son-of-man-250106.htm\" rel=\"external\">SouthAfrica.info:<\/a> &#8220;Andile Kosi plays Jesus, who is born in the state of Judea in southern Africa, where violence and poverty are rife. As civil war breaks out, Jesus demands that his followers foreswear warfare and follow a life of peace&#8221;&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southafrica.info\/what_happening\/arts_entertainment\/son-of-man-250106.htm\" rel=\"external\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sundance: <a href=\"http:\/\/festival.sundance.org\/filmguide\/popup.aspx?film=7001\" rel=\"external\">Film info<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Son of Man stuns Sundance SA The Good News: &#8220;Accolades are pouring in for Son of Man, a new South African film that sets the life of Jesus Christ in contemporary Africa, after its world premier at the Sundance Film Festival in the US state of Utah on Sunday&#8221;&#8230; more Black Jesus film aims to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252,212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bizarre-weird","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}