The Bible Review

"The Bible" is the latest visual story about the beginning of the world until the new life after Jesus Christ.
It's a 10 episodes Tv mini-series with stories based on the actual Bible. The success of "The Bible" in USA was incredible, over 100 million people watched it all episodes together. So far was launched in the USA, after the summer will start spread all over the world.  The premier was in March 2013 on History channel, five Sundays in a row with two episodes at every end of the week.
The budget was for the whole 10 episodes was just $22 million, and was filmed in Morocco in 4 months.
The impact on the public, including me,was huge. The power of God is shown in each episode and in each episode is portrayed the conflict between the bad and the good.
The series had three directors, each one of them directing different episodes, never all three together one episode, which I thought was a great idea, because they managed perfectly to make the episodes come together and make sense. From the first episode I thought the story was brilliantly visualised and really captivating to make you see the next one and the rest of the mini series, that's why the views never went down, because it didn't disappoint. What they wanted to show through this series was the real story as it is in the Bible written, and it's been years and years that a new film or Tv series about Jesus weren't made,so I think it was about time to remind ourselves were are we coming from and why we should respect and believe in the Son of God. Also in The Bible is shown how the world started and stories about other religious people that had a huge effect on the history, beside Jesus. So they are presenting stories that no one has ever seen on screens, that what makes The Bible interesting and watchable.
Even if the budget was small the effects and the performances were amazing.
From all the films and TV series that were made about Jesus Christ this was the second best so far. The number one of all was Jesus of Nazareth from 1977. The mini series Jesus of Nazareth were only 6 episodes, and they were focused only on Jesus life on earth and the resurrection of Him. Comparing with The Bible from 2013 , the series from 1977 were more detailed about Jesus life on earth, and the story more deep and sad. Also in that one there are no stories about Abraham or Moises like in the 2013 one. In The Bible like in Jesus of Nazareth, the main character is still Jesus, because it dominates in the last 6 episodes, and even from the first fourth episodes the stories will later relate to the birth of the Son of God.
The narrative structure of the whole series is linear, but in each episode the beginning starts with a short review of the former episode, to let us know where we are in the story. The story clearly starts with the beginning of the world, how God created earth, the nature, animals and the humans. Then the story naturally goes to different people that believed in the power of God and them confronting other people who where against God or just didn't believe in it. To tell us the story of the beginning of the world is told by a voiceover, I think is just a story teller who reads from the actual book the 'Bible'. The series go in a strict linear story to make sure that the public understands exactly what happened back then and to make sense to us. The Bible finishes with the two remain apprentices who in their last days wrote the story of Jesus and their experiences which made the 'Bible' book that is today.
The Christians were the stereo types in this film.  Even before Jesus the Christians existed and weren't accepted too well by the rest of the people. They were considered freaks and crazy. After Jesus birth, still the society didn't accepted them and became even violent when they were believed and followed Jesus as the Son of God. People were punished and killed because they were following Jesus. In the world we're living today, religious people are accepted but they are still considered a bit weird, because today most of the humans think they are God for themselves. I think that today people are becoming more and more ignorant with religion and Christians in general, people don't care much. Me being a Christian and believing in God and the church, I accept and respect everyone's choice about their religion. I think everyone has the right to believe in what they thinks it's good for them and helps them.
This show can influence the audience a lot, in a good but in a bad way as well. It really depends if the viewer already believed in this stories or not.
The effect that had on me was a really calm one and made me appreciate even more all religions.