Life Of Pi Biblical Allusions

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How can Bible stories influence some movies in the twentieth through the twenty first century? Sometimes movie directors can slip in hidden scenes that have some part of the Bible in them, there are many examples, example such as leviathan, which is a man who lost everything, his family, his money, and his house. But he does not blame God or anyone because he has faith that helps him, just like Job. This is an example of biblical allusions. There are three parts to this, three passages from the Bible. First one is about Noah and the ark, the second one is about Jonah and the whale, and the last one is about elijah vs the prophets of baal. People can easily see the biblical allusions of movies or depict a scene from a movie and compare it from …show more content…

They both had to survive floods and survive with animals. They both have jobs like feeding and taking care of the animals Life of Pi took care of the tiger and Noah took care of every two kinds of animals on Earth male and female.The second story was about Pinocchio, when Pinocchio was told not to run away with strangers, and at the middle/end of the movie, he gets swallowed by a whale and doesn't lose hope, just like Jonah got swallowed by a whale because he did not do what he was told to do by God and Jonah did not lose hope. And the third story, The Lion King when Simba wandered the desert in a drought and came back to fight his uncle Scar when the he defeated Scar rain came falling from the sky, just like Elijah wander the desert after a drought had happened when he was told by God to say to King Ahab, and after a while he came and defeated the prophets of Baal in a competition to see who whose God would burn up their sacrifice. To backup statement of people can easily depict biblical allusions in movies. People can easily see them if they know about the Bible and the stories in the Bible and that's many people in the United States who have read or heard about the Bible