In terms of subject matter, from Mel Brooks to Monty Python to Harold Ramis, many a Hollywood film director has looked to the Bible and found some really good material. And for one raised on the KJV, I can’t help but hear its cadence in the occasional movie line, as in The Godfather when Sal Tessio says that “Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes,” meaning, he’s dead. Doesn’t that sound a whole lot like the Old Testament: “And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria…” (2 Kings 13:9)?
Or this one:
Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry.
Proverbs 6:30
which reminds me of the scene in Woody Allen’s Radio Days where a husband tries to convince his wife that it’s okay for the maid to steal from them because, if she didn’t, “Who would she steal from, if not us?”
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