The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly of Storytelling | The Taxidermy of Hollywood

Survey Link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCCSj9URmUSo5YE8JyxCTDo0ESjUKZ7eZMD_SFwmbG10aAsw/viewform?usp=sharing The Traditions of the Virgin Mary: https://youtu.be/9TkSiOBwo04 Critical Drinker video on Rings of Power: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kquNKboBtJw Today, we venture into Hollywood. In this first of two parts, Dr. Jacobs uses the new Netflix movie about the Virgin Mary to explore the many pitfalls that Hollywood falls into when trying to create a movie for Christians. He’ll also get prescriptive. Who can fix these problems and how?  All the links:  X: https://x.com/NathanJacobsPod Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0hSskUtCwDT40uFbqTk3QS Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nathan-jacobs-podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thenathanjacobspodcast Substack: https://nathanajacobs.substack.com/ Website: https://www.nathanajacobs.com/ Academia: https://vanderbilt.academia.edu/NathanAJacobs 00:00:00 Intro  00:00:24 Take the survey  00:02:57 The IP problem in Hollywood  00:11:59 Hollywood, Faith, & Propaganda  00:29:00 Hollywood doesn’t know how to make these movies  00:41:41 Background on Dr. Jacobs and the Mary movie  00:45:24 Choosing Protestant, Catholic, or the Orthodox versions of the Mary story 00:50:12 Mary and Joseph: To romance or not to romance?  00:54:21 Mary’s early life in the temple  00:57:39 The Netflix approach to Satan in their movie  00:59:38 When writers rip off other writers  01:04:42 Back to Satan in the movie  01:06:32 Inexplicable story changes  01:11:40 Filling in the gaps in biblical storytelling  01:18:08 Honoring the worldview of the source material  01:29:14 Girlbosses subverting the men  01:35:59 Cringe :/ 01:45:31 How to make a successful organically Christian movie  01:55:30 The myth of secular neutrality  01:59:35 Depth in storytelling (Tolkien vs. Lewis) 02:13:00 The Hollywood taxidermists  02:26:04 Can Hollywood self-correct?