Could a movie be made of Dante's Inferno?

Who would you cast in the main roles (Dante, Virgil, Satan) and who would you have direct and write it?

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Its already been done, perfectly.

Zack Snyder directing.

>Dante
Henry Cavill

>Virgil
Ben Affleck

>Satan
Idris Elba

>gib me some Christian torture porn guilt passion play about Hell and how everybody sucks
Yeah, no thanks

Sure! There's a huge audience for Renaissance Italian politics wrapped in esoteric Roman Catholic mysticism. I nominate Idris Elba as Virgil. Let's have Sony do the distribution, too.

Satan isn't a character. He doesn't say anything.

Kys, Dante was the first Modernist, and the Comedy is bad ass.

Your Gene Selection, Phlogiston theory loving Cuck God has nothing on Dante.

>Fucking implying the whole thing wouldn't be twisted by the writer and director into being a bash session against "homophobes," hypocritical christians, racists, and possibly even God himself.

>Dante
Keanu Reeves

>Virgil
Allen Rickman

>Satan
John Candy

Written and directed by Robert Zemeckis

Yes, because Christian films are known for their poignant criticism on modern social issues. Mel Gibson is really just an ironic atheist.

>Your Gene Selection, Phlogiston theory loving Cuck God has nothing on Dante.
The fuck does any of this mean?

>Satan isn't a character. He doesn't say anything.
someone who actually read the thing

There are roles for an angel, a platoon of demons, and almost every famous person of the ancient classical era

>Dante was the first Modernist
And they plunge him into hell. What's the message?

at what point did the OP say it would be a christian filmmaker? The subject implies (an perhaps necessitates) a huge budget, not some small christian film. Do you honestly think every work produced by the christian world has to be adapted by a christian creator, or has?

Who is they?

>betraying guests and country is worse than betraying your family
wut

Dante's Inferno is one of the most iconic CHRISTIAN stories in their entire anthology. Of course they would want to pander to a Christian audience.

Umm, sweetie? Your little "god" delusion isn't real, so no one would watch your shitty little movie. Read a book other than the Bible and people might take you seriously. Let's pretend this thread never happened.

Would it include the scene where Dante and Virgil find Muhammad split open from chin to anus, continually suffering in hell for spreading the false religion of Islam? Crying, begging, and screaming about how he repents for spreading lies and how he made Islam up to get rich and powerful, while being continuously tortured and whipped by demons?

>No barrel, not even one where the hoops and staves go every which way, was ever split open like one frayed Sinner I saw, ripped from chin to where we fart below.
>His guts hung between his legs and displayed His vital organs, including that wretched sack Which converts to shit whatever gets conveyed down the gullet.
>As I stared at him he looked back And with his hands pulled his chest open, Saying, "See how I split open the crack in myself! See how twisted and broken Mohammed is!

Or do you think JJ Abrams might leave that scene out?

>Do you honestly think every work produced by the christian world has to be adapted by a christian creator, or has?
Most have or have been Christian masturbatory pandering for Jesus bucks.

they'd just use the plot from the video game because it would be cape shit-ish.

Because the State is important.

You can live without your family, but man is nothing without some form of society.

If you betray that, you're going against the very fabric of human society. In addition, they believed that human society was divinely ordained, so it's even worse.

Also, being a bad guest is one of the most evil things you could ever do in antiquity

Idk, God and co.? The writer? Whatever.

>t. North Korean

Anyone have a recommended translation?

>"why isn't there a faithful and tasteful modernist adaptation of Dante in Jewish Hollywood?"

The video game was absolute KINO

I've only ever read the Longfellow one.

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(((Mandelbaum)))

for vidya, the story was pretty decent. could make a good action flick.

>THE JEWWSSSSS REEEEEEEE OMG SAVE ME JESUS!

godcucks are pathetic
>don't do bad stuff your you will go to hell and burn forever and stuff
yeah, we got it. You have a certain IQ and you get it. Is anything more plebe than buying into societal stabilizing memes that coalesced because the average person can't figure out what's good for them? Isn't this just evidence of average introspective ability?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante's_Inferno:_An_Animated_Epic

This was the best version I've seen so far. Still it is lacking.

Appearantly Warner Bros owns the rights to Alghieri's "Dante's Inferno" since 2015.

Can you imagine Tarsem Singh directing that shit? It would've been like cranking the kino dial up to 11.

Dante's Inferno is just a cool story, guy. You don't have to be a "godcuck" to enjoy it. Why don't you go watch the Amazing Atheist or post on r/atheism about how much you hate the Church?

Go back to watching Rick and Morty u philistine.

Dante's Inferno is a classic that inspired Joyce, Blake, etc. It's really good.

>still pretending Rick and Morty is a bad show
Are you looking forward to God's Not Dead 3, user?

Dante was the writer, Einstein.

I just fucking love how when you pause a video now some stupid ads for other videos take up half the screen so I have to click out of it every time i pause.

>Suicide
Why is suicide a sin? I'm completely lost here...

The official Catholic line is that suicide and murder are equivalent sins, because either way you are prematurely ending a life which was a gift from God and for which God had already formulated a plan. Using your earthly free will to interfere with divine matters is generally speaking a one-way ticket to Hell according to traditional dogma.

You're denying the life God gave you. Shunning all that His will and grace offers. A refusal of faith in all redemption and mission.
I'm only surprised Dante didn't place it lower

Read , thats not the teaching of the Church its not an autistic formula of Suicide=Murder=Sin

That's really sad, I don't see why God can't just forgive people for killing themselves.

God's Grace is always open to sinners, its not an act He has to make. Its something thats always there that we must fulfill for ourselves by accepting it.
If you kill yourself you can't accept that grace. You are gone

How do you own the rights to a 700 year old story?

"Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence; the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men; as far as he is concerned he wipes out the world. His act is worse (symbolically considered) than any rape or dynamite outrage. For it destroys all buildings: it insults all women. The thief is satisfied with diamonds; but the suicide is not: that is his crime. He cannot be bribed, even by the blazing stones of the Celestial City. The thief compliments the things he steals, if not the owner of them. But the suicide insults everything on earth by not stealing it. He defiles every flower by refusing to live for its sake. There is not a tiny creature in the cosmos at whom his death is not a sneer. When a man hangs himself on a tree, the leaves might fall off in anger and the birds fly away in fury: for each has received a personal affront. Of course there may be pathetic emotional excuses for the act. There often are for rape, and there almost always are for dynamite. But if it comes to clear ideas and the intelligent meaning of things, then there is much more rational and philosophic truth in the burial at the cross-roads and the stake driven through the body, than in Mr. Archer's suicidal automatic machines. There is a meaning in burying the suicide apart. The man's crime is different from other crimes -- for it makes even crimes impossible."

With the power of Judaism all things are possible

Yes and?

No, that's your own interpretation.

The official line is that your life and the lives of others are the property of God and God alone, He merely gives them to us as gifts. To destroy either your own or another's life is to spit in God's eye and assert dominion over Him. While murder is a more grave ethical violation here on Earth, the mortal sin is the same.

>No, that's your own interpretation.

I think reddit is more your scene friend

Have you actually ever read the Bible?

By the heavens, what a logically invulnerable, theologically grounded refutation. I humbly recant my heretical ramblings.

Wrong statist.

Yes, have you?

I just have nothing to say. The very notion you can be said to have an "interpretation" of the Bible is already places you as a hermeneutic imbecile

If they filmed it as written it would be incredibly boring. Have you read it? Not a good book to make into a film.

You could do some fanfiction type bullshit but what's the point

>For it destroys all buildings: it insults all women
???

>The very notion you can be said to have an "interpretation" of the Bible

I take it you weren't paying attention over the last 2,000 years in which wars were fought and kingdoms rose and fell in the name of slightly different interpretations of the Bible?

No man is perfect, and even if the Bible in its current translations were a 1:1 copy of the logos there would be no way for any priest or scholar to have perfectly comprehended it. You and I are no different in that respect, and all I've done is explain the official doctrine of the modern Catholic Church, which on the topic of suicide was also the doctrine in Dante's time.

>I take it you weren't paying attention over the last 2,000 years in which wars were fought and kingdoms rose and fell in the name of slightly different interpretations of the Bible?

That was not an issue of interpretation. The message is there to be accepted, it is the way of sin to deny it through misrepresentation.

HOLY shit I was just about to make this thread. A Dante's Inferno movie would have to be R rated.

>reading bible fanfiction
wew

Ambiguity is a good thing. It adds richness to the text

And 4 hours long

All literature is reality-fan-fiction

Please read the political exile of Dante and you may understand why he, the writer, put himself in his story.

>refusing to participate in life you had no option to participate in.
>MAKES YOU THE FUCKING WORST OMFG YOU JUST COMMITTED THE WORST SIN EVER
>WORSE THAN GENOCIDE, MURDER, RAPE
>YOU ARE SCUM AND THE WORST CRIMINAL IMAGINABLE SO YOU DESERVE TO BE CONDEMNED TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF INFINIFE TORTURE
Christians are fucking insane, this is insane talk.

I know why it would never happen, but I would love to see a movie that tackles Christian mythos a la Paradise Lost or something similar showing Revelations and Behemoth and Leviathan fucking up the Earth and shit. It would literally never happen, but a mythology extended universe would actually be fucking cool. That shit was the original comic books.

The bible itself is just a bunch of blog posts and fan fiction from the dead sea scrolls and a few other sources. It is literally like reading an ancient Sup Forums BBS.

What a controlling faglord he is.

>recieve gift
>thinks it's acceptable to spitefully throw it in the trash simply because you didn't ask for it

I don't know if Christians are insane, but I know you have no grasp of social etiquette

>dante
a nigger, make him gay

>virgil
a nigger, make him trans

>satan
white man

>The message is there to be accepted, it is the way of sin to deny it through misrepresentation.

Unfortunately for mankind, the perceived content of God's message and the exact nature of what constitutes "misrepresentation" varies quite wildly from church to church. A common English expression used to describe such a phenomenon is "different interpretations".

You have to be seriously deluded to believe that interpretations of the Bible don't vary - how do you think we ended up with three extremely different arms of the Abrahamic faith, or gay Anglican priests? How else do you explain the coexistence of Templar crusaders and JW pacifists under the umbrella of Christianity?

What are you arguing? That people don't interpret the Bible in different ways? But...user...this literally happens, all the time. You sound fucking retarded. There are literally dozens of denominations because nobody agrees.

So you're saying that killing myself is the only way to assert my power over God? Wtf I love suicide now.

I like you

You are being a big fucking tard, user.

Do you really think people would pay to see a movie that involves basically everyone other than good Christians tortured in increasingly horrible ways?

Especially one that prominently features suicide victims and people from other religions getting tormented?

Not really, you always have the freedom to kill yourself, that decision is entirely in your hands. It's only the consequences that aren't.

How the fuck do you read something without interpreting it? Holy kek.

>how did we wind up with gay Anglican priests?
That's easy.
The Church of England was founded in heresy and it was only a matter of time before Satan corrupted them entirely.

>don't ask for a gift
>"hey user, thanks but no thanks"
>you: "WTF IS WRONG WITH YO, DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND SOCIAL ETIQUETTE??
>"well, great but I didn't ask for it..."
>you: "THAT DOESN'T MATTER IT IS A GIFT AND YOU MUST ALWAYS ACCEPT IT".

Yes, crazy talk user.

hahahahha look at this guy

No memeing this would be pretty cool to see in a movie.

The first level of Dante's Hell is a city full of mosques, It also includes a section devoted to torturing people who have had anal sex. This movie would never get made.

It's amazing how the Anglican church is dying so quickly and their solution is to get increasingly less Christian.

>I don't know if Christians are insane
FUCKING KEK
>muh social etiquette
Nice false equivolence. My life isn't here to please you or make you feel validated.

But that is manipulative. There really is no choice if I get punished for making them that God just decides he doesn't like.

Virgil is such a bro.

How would they do a movie about the Comedy though? All three parts would make sense but most people probably only care about Inferno.

Sure, but once you're dead it still rests with Him to weigh and measure your soul, and because of your mortal sin you will forever be disallowed from entering the Kingdom of God when the time comes.

The house always wins, user.

Are you arguing that Dante's Inferno isn't Christian?

>Incontinece
what did he mean by this

"Thanks but no thanks" is not a destructive act like suicide is.

>you: "THAT DOESN'T MATTER IT IS A GIFT AND YOU MUST ALWAYS ACCEPT IT".
Do you have any idea how many cultures turning down a gift is a grievous offense in?
Seriously, you're a barbarian.
No scratch that, even barbarians have more social grace.

bad guests suck though fuck that.

Bedwetters must be punished for their crimes.

>My life isn't here to please you or make you feel validated.
I never claimed to be God user, it's not me who would be offended by your suicide.
Quite the opposite in fact.
:3

There's only one good choice, but there's still two options. Kill yourself or don't, you have the freedom to choose.

Isn't it entitled and illogical to insist that whenever you exercise your free will, the outcome of every decision should always have equal consequences regardless of your choice? What would be the point of free will? Why do you alone deserve the freedom to eschew punishment or reward?

>is not a destructive act like suicide is.
Sorry that you don't like free agency and prefer to villify people who suffer from suicidal thoughts or depression by making them feel like they aren't entitled to their own fucking life.
>Do you have any idea how many cultures turning down a gift is a grievous offense in?
So what? I don't care. I don't live in slme backwater society where we kill people over insults.
>Seriously, you're a barbarian.
Right, it's me

>social grace
I bet you use the term "degeneracy" unironically

Wow, you are incredibly butthurt over absolutely nothing at all.

What a pathetic faggot...