Since the creation of cinema, there have always been movies adapted from books. Everyone knows that when doing this there must be certain concessions that are needed. One cannot possibly include every little detail of a book in a movie script. There are also times where a books version of an event may be "boring," so the screen writer events of stylizes the passage to make it more appealing to an audience. There have also been times where a screen writer has altogether made up a scene as well. In the movie King David all of these scenarios have taken place.
The first part of the movie that I shall look at is the story of David and Goliath. There is a major discrepancy of how this epic battle actually came to fruition. First and foremost, in the movie, David is depicted as traveling with Saul and his army to the valley of Elah (King David). The actual bible passage describes something extremely different. In the bible, it is told to us that David was with his father......
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