Episode 25: Epic Movies With Brian Godawa
The Babylon Bee
Seth Dillon
4.4 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2019
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
In episode twenty-five of The Babylon Bee podcast, editor-in-chief Kyle Mann and creative director Ethan Nicolle welcome back Brian Godawa to talk about epic films where individuals are willing to live and die for transcendent values set in all-encompassing civilization-shaking settings, and a lot of people get stabbed. They also talk about the secular-sacred divide in films and the genre of "Christian" movies.
Brian Godawa is an award-winning Hollywood screenwriter (To End All Wars), a movie and culture blogger specializing in God, Movies, and Worldviews (www.Godawa.com), author of a textbook, Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films with Wisdom and Discernment as well as an Amazon best-selling author of Biblical fiction (Chronicles of the Nephilim/Chronicles of the Apocalypse).
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Show Outline
Thanksgiving Introduction - Kyle, Ethan, and producer Dan give thanks for our jobs, you, the Babylon Bee audience, and great food in this Thanksgiving special episode. Of course, they also run down 7 Ways You Can OWN Your Liberal Relatives This Thanksgiving This Year. Then they welcome Brian Godawa to discuss whether an epic movie must include lots of people being killed by swords and dive into the idea of transcendence in which there are some things that are higher to live for than just yourself.
Movies/Series Discussed -
Braveheart
Troy
Gladiator
The Patriot
Star Wars
The Lord Of The Rings
Game Of Thrones
Exodus: Gods And Kings
Noah
Ben Hur
Rob Roy
Mad Max: Fury Road
30 Days Of Night
I Am Legend
Topic Of The Week: Kyle, Ethan, and Brian discuss the Secular/Sacred Divide In Film. Is this a false dichotomy? Does art need to be explicitly Christian to be profitable or valuable for Christians?
Hate Mail - Jabba The Hutt makes an appearance and accusations of racism stream in.
Subscriber-Exclusive Content: Resident Movie Expert Brian Godawa reveals his top movies of all time including some pro-life films.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanksgiving. It is here. It is. This is the day of gorging gluttony and |
| 0:08.5 | competitive about it. Oh, that was the three Gs. That was better than what I |
| 0:12.4 | said. Or you think I said complaining about things. |
| 0:15.6 | I believe in says that would have been good and fighting your relatives. Yeah. |
| 0:20.2 | And the tips we had we should have got those ready. The tips for to own the |
| 0:25.8 | live your live relatives. Yeah, let's do it. We'll do that. Yeah. |
| 0:28.7 | So what we're doing we're doing a special Thanksgiving episode, which really |
| 0:32.4 | we're being lazy because we had this episode sitting on the shelf and we're |
| 0:36.4 | going to release it today. It's an epic movie one with Brian Godawa. So we're |
| 0:39.8 | going to talk about epic movies. We wanted to talk to you guys first to just |
| 0:44.4 | you know how thankful we are for you and for this job and just to say hi and |
| 0:49.9 | happy Thanksgiving. So Kyle's looking up our a couple of tips for you guys. |
| 0:54.9 | Have you actually seen these real articles that are going around with like how |
| 0:59.3 | to talk to your relatives about Trump or how to yeah or how is it how to like |
| 1:04.1 | actually try to change their mind or how to scold them or shame them or what |
| 1:07.6 | is the thing? Probably a wide range. Probably. Yeah. It's a popular thing this time |
| 1:12.9 | here. It's like how to or it's like how to live your best life or whatever |
| 1:18.2 | I go over the Thanksgiving. Like how does self care right? Like you have to get |
| 1:22.8 | away into a room and just take some deep breaths and you go back out there |
| 1:25.8 | with Uncle Roy or whatever. It seems weird to me that people need that. I know I |
| 1:29.7 | don't get that at all. I've never experienced the super political Thanksgiving. |
| 1:33.8 | I have political family members but I don't we don't get into it. I don't know. But I |
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