Why The Best Movie Characters Are Real People

March 15, 2012 15 Comments


This maybe controversial BUT in my opinion people of a religious persuasion often struggle when they endeavor to break into the arts.

I know actors that refuse to swear and writers that insist on having a Jesus or a priest in every scene.

Quite simply, it’s ridiculously stupid.

If your faith is real, then it exists in the slums, in the mansions, in the brothels and the bars, there is no place on earth where it cannot be found.

Real faith is gritty, it isn’t sanitized or purified in anyway. It’s the dirty, filthy, messy truth that involves people just like you and me.

Don’t hide the truth, don’t cover the dirt, be humble and don’t judge anyone… especially your own characters.

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  • BJ Pramann

    As a christian writer, and painter, I couldn’t agree with you more.

    • http://sevensentences.com Geoff Talbot

      Thanks BJ

  • http://twitter.com/ChristoGray Christopher R Gray

    Yes!

  • http://www.drdeadline.com Rick Clark

    Are you talking about religion or faith? They are not synonymous, yet also not mutually exclusive. This little light of mine…

    • http://sevensentences.com Geoff Talbot

      I guess of a  lot of people they are exactly the same thing – I guess I wrote this based on my observations of those people?

  • http://www.julianneharvey.com/ Julianne Harvey

    I agree 110 percent! I used to worry so much and felt so constrained by religious ideas as I wrote. Now I’ve worked through all of that ridiculousness and I’m free to write what is beautiful, and imperfect, and messy, and my writing (and life) has never been better. Real always trumps pretend.

    • http://sevensentences.com Geoff Talbot

      Real always trumps pretend… great comment

  • http://tcavey.blogspot.com/ TCAvey

    so very true!  Life is real, Jesus is real and we can’t hide in the church.  

    • http://sevensentences.com Geoff Talbot

      Real faith is about no longer hiding

  • Anonymous

    The evolution of me has led to this belief….religion is constricting, faith is freeing.  Love how you make us think, Geoff.

    • http://sevensentences.com Geoff Talbot

      Thanks El – real truth brings freedom

  • http://twitter.com/PeterPaluska Peter Paluska

    Yes! God is in everything. There is no way it could not be true. Good one, Geoff.

    • http://sevensentences.com Geoff Talbot

      Very cool… he is not absent or ashamed, he’s been watching human beings for a long time now… nothing we do makes him look away

  • Bcphlip

    Check out a song from the Lost Dogs – Breathe Deep the Breath of God

    • http://sevensentences.com Geoff Talbot

      Could you post a link here – so others can read?