Like a failure, it inspired the Christian series that has conquered the world
Dallas Jenkinsthe mind after the phenomenon Chosenthe Christian series that has broken all recordsHe did not start at the top. Like many great successes, This story began staggering on the margins of bankruptcy… literally.
In a relaxed speech, in deep times, The controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan PetersonHe welcomed the architect of successful biblical fiction in his podcast. The result: a revealed conversation on faith, cinema and As an obstacle can be the starting point of something enormous.
Something that had aroused the interest of Paterson, who did not hesitate to praise how far the series of the propaganda apparition was So widespread, in his words, in the cinema of the religious theme. This explained it The psychologistwho saw the series without many expectations and ended up feeling “relief”.
“The emergence of Chosen As a spectacular success, it occurred after a relatively catastrophic failure “Peterson released without surroundings, since one could say without fear of making mistakes in which the genesis of the popular series had its origin The commercial flask of the previous film of the director, Resurrection of Gavin StoneA Christian comedy that gave Bruces to the box office.
“Should I learn to lead a bus to keep my family?”Remember to have asked the director, who also came to Consider to abandon trade After this difficult experience. But, as usually happens in these cases, There was a light at the end of the tunnel And, after a passenger job in a chicago church, the miracle was worked.
The months he worked in that place, Jenkins had obtained funding to shoot the short film The shepherd, which would end up being the germ of Chosen. The filming, which took place on the farm of a friend of the director, helped him Connect with your passion to tell biblical storiesBy doing so, yes, from a more emotional approach.
While this recovery was the springboard, the inspiration was born a few years earlier when the director was shooting another of his first works, entitled Two thieves. It was the crucifixion of Christ, but from the point of view of the thieves who accompanied him His last moments of life.
A good sermon
The idea was born After listening to a Kentucky shepherd, who “presented a sermon on the crucifixion e Jesus’ relationship with the two thieves who died by his side“, In Jenkins’ words. While the two made fun of him at the beginning, the second recovered, asking Jesus to remember him when he came to the kingdom of heaven.
This story Something activated in the mind of the creator of the biblical sagawho asked for the effect that the usual phrase had on that man: “Father, forgiven, because they don’t know what they do,” Jenkins recalled.
“It seemed very convincing. And I thought:” I want to make a short film in which we break the back of that story. “So, with the still alive creative spark, he trained with the co-guy Tyler Thompson (with which he currently writes Chosen) have had the opportunity to work and what started as an experiment ended up unleashing a global phenomenon that has become One of the most seen independent productions.
The first four seasons of Chosen Can be seen in First videos, contra+, motistar+ and in Website of the official seriesWhere the episodes awaiting September and for free will also be available.
For its part, the missing episodes of the fifth scheduled season, entitled The Prelezate: the Last Supperwill be released on June 15 in the United States e They will arrive in Spain in July through the contra+platform.
