Obadiah (pronounced /ˌoʊbəˈdaɪ.ə/, Hebrew: עבדיה ʿObhadyah or עבדיהו `oḆaDYaHOo, or in Modern Hebrew Ovadyah) is a Biblical theophorical name, meaning "servant of Yahweh" or "worshipper of Yahweh." It is related to "Abdeel", "servant of God", which is also cognate to the Arabic name "Abdullah". Turkish name Abdil or Abdi. The form of Obadiah's name used in the Septuagint is Obdios; in Latin it is Abdias. The Bishops' Bible has it as Abdi.
According to the Talmud, Obadiah is said to have been a convert to Judaism from Edom, a descendant of Eliphaz, the friend of Job. He is identified with the Obadiah who was the servant of Ahab, and it is said that he was chosen to prophesy against Edom because he was himself an Edomite. Moreover, having lived with two such godless persons as Ahab and Jezebel without learning to act as they did, he seemed the most suitable person to prophesy against Esau (Edom), who, having been brought up by two pious persons, Isaac and Rebekah, had not learned to imitate their good deeds.
One Chance
One Secret
One Mistake
[first lines]::John Moon: Shit.
John Moon: I'm right here! I'm right here!
John Moon: I don't wanna a divorce. I just want my family back.
Plot
When his commitment to refrain from revenge is tested to its bloody limits by a short-fused pagan queen, the middle eastern chieftain Elijah receives in reward a commitment from God: to carry out sentence on the chieftain's enemy in accord with the mere mortal's request, a drought.
Keywords: bible, curse, dove-foundation, drought, elijah, explosion, israel, jezebel, paganism, reference-to-god
Elijah's Story
oh man of tardy anger bleed no more: name thy justice; justice shall be thine!
Prince of Omri: I am wronged, as my liver is wronged!
Plot
"Runaway Slave" is a coming of age short film, set back in the 1800s at the ripe end of slavery. As the film opens we meet Obadiah, a seventeen year old slave boy, along with his family who has just learned that President Abraham Lincoln has signed the Emancipation Proclamation freeing blacks from slavery. Obadiah's attitude towards this freedom soon changes from joy, to confusion, and then finally rejection - "What if nothing good comes of this freedom?" Frightened of the change this freedom will bring his family and his people, Obadiah must decide whether he will remain in a prison of fear or embrace the future with hope and courage.
Plot
Joshua Steed returns to Missouri a wealthy man with a beautiful wife; however, the past has a way of catching up. Soon Joshua is tangled in a web of rumors, deception and betrayal that threatens to tear his family apart. Back in Kirtland, financial trouble riddles the foundations of the fledgling Church causing a division, and questioning of the Prophet Joseph Smith's divine calling. Has he lost his prophetic gift? Hundreds of Saints immigrate to Missouri, where Governor Boggs raises an army - with Joshua at its head - to address the "Mormon Problem." When the militia receives orders to attack the Mormon settlement, only Joshua can save his family from the gathering mob.
Keywords: 1830s, 19th-century, bank, banking, baptism, based-on-novel, brother-brother-relationship, businessman, church, crisis
Plot
Two actors, as their make up is applied, talk about the size of their parts. Then into the film: Laurence Sterne's unfilmable novel, Tristram Shandy, a fictive autobiography wherein the narrator, interrupted constantly, takes the entire story to be born. The film tracks between "Shandy" and behind the scenes. Size matters: parts, egos, shoes, noses. The lead's girlfriend, with their infant son, is up from London for the night, wanting sex; interruptions are constant. Scenes are shot, re-shot, and discarded. The purpose of the project is elusive. Fathers and sons; men and women; cocks and bulls. Life is amorphous, too full and too rich to be captured in one narrative.
Keywords: actor-playing-himself, assistant, baby, based-on-novel, battle, boots, breaking-the-fourth-wall, child-nudity, circumcision, diaper
Because everyone loves an accurate period piece.
He's About To Play The Role Of His Life.
Jennie: 'Fear Eats The Soul,' there's more truth in that title than most whole films.
Tony Wilson: Why "Tristram Shandy"? This is the book that many people said is unfilmable.::Steve Coogan: I think that's the attraction. "Tristram Shandy" was a post-modern classic written before there was any modernism to be post about. So it was way ahead of its time and, in fact, for those who haven't heard of it, it was actually listed as number eight on the Observer's top 100 books of all time.::Tony Wilson: That was a *chronological* list.
Rob Brydon: [Rob shows Steve his teeth] What do you think? Have a look at the color.::Steve Coogan: I saw the color the last time I looked. It registered.::Rob Brydon: It's what they call "not white." What color would you call it?::Steve Coogan: I would, I'd concur with "not white." I'd go further.::Rob Brydon: I mean, it's not yellow.::Steve Coogan: I, you know, I mean, there's a sliding scale, isn't there, you know.::Rob Brydon: Hint of yellow.::Steve Coogan: I think you're closest to...::Rob Brydon: Barley meadow. Tuscan sunset.::Steve Coogan: You're getting laughs, but it's not making your teeth look any better.
Steve Coogan: [Steve is hanging upside down in the model womb] How about filming the other way around, the right way up, and then just flip the image?::Leo: Well, maybe, but I'd have to have a word with Mark about that. I mean, I think he wanted the realism.::Steve Coogan: He wants realism?::Leo: Yeah.::Steve Coogan: Yeah, I'm a grown man, talking to the camera, in a fucking womb!
Steve Coogan: Do you know there's a good Groucho Marx story about, see, he meets a woman with seven children and says "Why've you got seven kids?" and she says "Because I love my husband." And he says, "Well, I love my cigar, but I take it out now and again."
Steve Coogan: Given that the story's about Walter's love for his son, I really think that Walter should be there at the birth.::Joe: It's the 18th Century. Men just didn't do that. You're a 21st Century man, but Walter can't be.::Steve Coogan: He talks to the fucking camera. He can be emotional. If you saw Walter for an instant holding the baby in his arms, then you would forgive him all his flaws.::Joe: Yeah, but it would look terrible. It'd be like the scene in Robin Hood where Kevin Costner delivers a baby.::Steve Coogan: Because he's got a stupid mullet haircut.
Rob Brydon: [Rob shows Steve his teeth] What do you think? I've had them done.::Steve Coogan: I know you have.::Rob Brydon: What do you think? Feel that one. There's no crevice. Feel it.::Steve Coogan: Don't ask me to feel your teeth.::Rob Brydon: Just close your eyes and feel it.::Steve Coogan: No. It's your fucking teeth. Christ!::Rob Brydon: What is the matter with you? You've got such a thing about, whenever there's a hint of something gay, you immediately...::Steve Coogan: What? This has nothing to do with "gay". I'm very cautious.::Rob Brydon: That's what it is. You don't want to touch another man's teeth, because you're worried you might be attracted to me. Just touch my teeth.
Steve Coogan: I've got to be able to kick and stretch. That's what foeti do.::Leo: Yeah, but not when they're full term.::Steve Coogan: He wants realism. Yeah. I'm a grown man, talking to the camera, in a womb.
Rob Brydon: The thing is, I can't act...::Steve Coogan: I know that.::Rob Brydon: ...with Gillian Anderson. I have a sexual thing for Gillian Anderson.
Tristram Shandy: That is a child actor, pretending to be me. I'll be able to play myself later. I think I could probably get away with being eighteen, nineteen. Until then, I'll be played by a series of child actors. This was the best of a bad bunch.
Prepare For No Hair!
Plot
In 1844, farmer's daughter Miranda Wells is invited by Nicholas Van Ryn, distant relation, to live in his mansion as companion to his daughter. Arriving in high hopes, Miranda finds the Van Ryns a bit strange. The parents barely know daughter Katrine; Nicholas faces a revolt of his tenant farmers; the servants hint darkly of curses and visitations. And what does Nicholas really do up in his tower room?
Keywords: 1840s, 19th-century, aristocrat, arrogance, atheist, attic, ball, balls, based-on-novel, bible
DANGEROUSLY She dared to LOVE! (original ad - all caps)
Secret thoughts... That led to secret love... That led to rapture and terror!
Johanna Van Ryn: You can't imagine what it's like to be sick in this miserable, drab house.::Nicholas Van Ryn: I can't imagine that Dragonwyck could be either miserable or drab except to those who reflect misery or drabness within themselves.
Miranda Wells: But there's everything here you could possibly want!::Ephraim Wells: Everything is what no man should ever want.
Johanna Van Ryn: What can you possibly do up there?::Nicholas Van Ryn: Possibly? Anything from pinning butterflies to hiding an insane twin brother. Actually, I read. I hope that my explanation satisfies you?
Nicholas Van Ryn: But I will not live by ordinary standards. I will not run with the pack. I will not be chained into a routine of living which is the same for others. I will not look to the ground and move on the ground with the rest: so long as there are those mountaintops, and clouds, and limitless space.
Magda: You like it here?::Miranda Wells: [defensive] Of *course* I do!::Magda: Of course you do. You like being waited on - I could see tonight it was your first time. You like peaches out of season. You like the feel of silk sheets against your young body... And one day you'll wish with all your heart you'd never come to Dragonwyck!
Miranda Wells: The breeze feels wonderful against my face.::Nicholas Van Ryn: The breeze must feel wonderful indeed with a face as beautiful as yours against it.
Ephraim Wells: There's something peculiar about a man who orders supper someplace when he's someplace else! How did he know what I wanted to eat?::Miranda Wells: But there's everything here that you could possibly want.::Ephraim Wells: Everything is what no man should ever want!
Magda: [to Miranda] You mustn't take me seriously, Miss. No one ever does.
Nicholas Van Ryn: [to Miranda] To my wife promptness at meals is the greatest human virtue.
Abigail Wells: [talking about Miranda] Sometimes when a woman's unhappy, she just can't talk about it, Ephraim.::Ephraim Wells: Are you gonna tell me it's a man? What man I'd like to know? She's given frostbite to every mother's son in the country.::Abigail Wells: Perhaps the right man hasn't come along.::Ephraim Wells: No, she won't find find him with her nose in the air, wanting what she can't get! A woman oughta get a man first and then want him!
Why would I want to go to heaven
The people here don't think much of me now
And they'll be up there one day
Just when I think I got it all figured out
And why would I want to be the ocean
Water can't wash away these sins
Just now or ever
But I'm growing older
Got a small piece of land
And a cross too big to hold her
And a drought sneaking in
Did you feel the light move
Out from under me and into you
The moon opened it's mouth up
Took the night before the night was through
Obadiah found me breaking free of chains
Chains you thought you knew
And I'm growing older
Got a small piece of land
And a cross too big to hold her
And a drought sneaking in
Grab on to the solace of her heart
Let her go let her go
Breznichar in bohemiah
She swears you'll never know
Swears you'll never know
She swears you'll never know
She swears you'll never
But I'm growing older
Got a small piece of land
And a cross too big to hold her
He's not like Isaiah but he's holy
Does not have Isaiah's way with words
He's not Jeremiah or Ezekiel my friends
He's not really famous like Daniel and them
Does not have a great big book
But the things that he said all came true
Obadiah wasn't a talky kind of guy
No, no, no
Obadiah wasn't a talky kind of guy
No, no, no
The prophets had words that they told the -- world
The longest of them was Jeremiah -- wooo
The prophet Isaiah had more chapters than he
But he double spaced them or something it seems
Along with those great big books
There's a dinky one-chapter book, too
CHORUS
The prophets had words that they told us
A lot of them wasted little time -- whooo
Zeph'niah, Joel, and Nahum wrote three chapters each
Habakkuk the same, Haggai one less than these
But topping the names of books with the thinnest of pages is who?
CHORUS
Obadiah 1:12
You should not look down on your brother in the day
of his misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of
Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast so
I was just busy talkin' a blue streak mama I was talking a blue streak I was just busy talking a blue streak mama I was talking a blue streak
Love up above can you hear me I been so tired, I've been so tired Love up above can you hear me I've been so tired, I been so tired
There was a part of me That wanted out of the situation There was a part of me That couldn't let go
I was just busy talkin' a blue streak mama I was talkin' a blue streak I was just busy talking a blue streak mama I was talkin' a blue streak
There I go now, I been thinking about you, baby Thinking about you There I go now I been thinking about you, baby Thinking about you
You know I can't get used To the change in you I tried to bend, and then I think I might break
Why does it tumble, why do it fall Think you got something You got nothing at all Nothing at all
I was just busy talking a blue streak mama I was talking a blue streak...