Hail, Caesar! (2016)

Aramazd Stepanian: Eastern Orthodox Clergyman

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• Catholic Clergyman : It's the foundation of our belief that Christ is most properly referred to as the Son of God. It's the Son of God who takes the sins of the world upon himself, so that the rest of God's children, we imperfect beings, through faith, may enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

  Eddie Mannix : So, God is - split?

  Catholic Clergyman : Yes! And no.

  Eastern Orthodox Clergyman : There is unity in division.

  Protestant Clergyman : And division in unity.

  Eddie Mannix : I'm not sure I follow padre.

  Rabbi : Young man, you don't follow for a very simple reason. These men are screwballs.

• Eastern Orthodox Clergyman : Perhaps, Sir, you are forgetting is telling in the Holy Bible.

  Eddie Mannix : You're quite right, Patriarch. The Bible, of course, is terrific.

• Eddie Mannix : We don't need to agree on the nature of the deity here. If we could focus on the Christ, whatever his parentage. My question is: is our depiction fair?

  Eastern Orthodox Clergyman : I have seen worse.

  Eddie Mannix : Reverend?

  Protestant Clergyman : There's nothing to offend a - reasonable man.

  Eddie Mannix : Father?

  Catholic Clergyman : The motion picture teleplay was respectful and exhibited tastefulness and class.

  Rabbi : Who made you an expert all of the sudden?

  Eddie Mannix : And, what do you think, Rabbi?

  Rabbi : Eh? I haven't an opinion.

• Protestant Clergyman : God loves everyone!

  Catholic Clergyman : God is love!

  Eastern Orthodox Clergyman : God is who he is.

  Rabbi : This is special? Who isn't who he is?

  Catholic Clergyman : But, how should God be rendered in a motion picture?

  Rabbi : God isn't in the motion picture!

• Eddie Mannix : As for the religious aspect, does the depiction of Christ Jesus cut the mustard?

  Catholic Clergyman : Well, the nature of Christ is not quite as simple as your photoplay would have it.

  Eddie Mannix : How so, father?

  Catholic Clergyman : It's not the case, simply, that Christ is God or God - Christ.

  Rabbi : You can say that again! The Nazarene was not God.

  Eastern Orthodox Clergyman : He was not not God.

  Rabbi : He was a man.

  Protestant Clergyman : Part God.

  Rabbi : No, sir!

  Eddie Mannix : Rabbi, all of us have a little bit of God in us, don't we?

• Eddie Mannix : We don't want to send it to market except in the certainty that it will not offend any reasonable American, regardless of faith or creed. Now that's where you come in. You've read the script; I wanna know if the theological elements of the story are up to snuff.

  Eastern Orthodox Clergyman : I thought the chariot scene was fakey. How is he going to jump from one chariot to the other, going full speed?