It is based on the novel of the same name by eleanor henderson. Ten thousand sa ints is a 2015 american drama film written and directed by shari springer berman and robert pul cini. Shari springer berman and robert pulcinis ten thousand saints is a breath of mostlyfresh air about coming of age in the era of the straight edge movement. Ten thousand saints, a coming of age in the east village, circa 1980s asa butterfield, aloft, plays a troubled vermont teenager who moves to new york to live with his estranged. She is also known for playing the role of mackenzie mchale in the hbo series the newsroom, and as the voice actress of.
Author gets off to fast start with ten thousand saints. Youve reached the end of sample ten thousand saints by eleanor henderson back to product details page customers who bought this also bought. Now she sent and summoned barak the son of abinoam from kedeshnaphtali, and said to him, behold, the lord, the god of israel, has commanded, go and march to mount tabor, and take with you ten thousand men from the sons of naphtali and from the sons of zebulun. Behold, the lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints. The film st ars asa butterf ield as jude keffy horn, the protagonist of the story. But well before that i came to really love this movie. The ten thousand represents harold coyle at his visionary and apocalyptic. Ten thousand saints on dvd october 6, 2015 starring hailee steinfeld, ethan hawke, asa butterfield, emile hirsch. He shone on them from mount paran and came with ten thousand holy ones, with lightning from his right hand for them. She began acting in stage productions and has since appeared in several film and television roles. Ten thousand saints opens with the death of 15yearold teddy on new. With a starstudded ensemble cast, ten thousand saints tells the story of a group of friends and family members who come together in late80s. However, i deny this is the proper teaching of this verse. Though it loses some steam as it hurtles toward a happy ending, ten thousand saints is at its best when.
Blondes and brunettes big ones or small ones they were cold fragile impenetrable creatures all desirable as they were undesirable all perfumed and pretty. I would say that from what i read of the book that the movie was fairly loyal to the source material but much like the book it was just sort of uninteresting. Ten thousand angels were with him, a flaming fire at his right hand. Its a shame about this book, because its obvious why the. Ten thousand saints adapts eleanor hendersons comingofage novel with asa butterfield, ethan hawke and hailee steinfeld.
This prophecy of the holiest man of the antediluvian world might have been preserved by tradition. In 2003, she won an independent spirit award for her performance in lovely and amazing. For a movie with extremely loud punkrock music at its core, ten thousand saints is a pleasantly lowkey experience. The lord came from sinai and appeared to them from seir. Ten thousand saints is a whirling dervish of a first novel a planet, a universe, a trip. Ten thousand saints, is an enjoyable coming of age film about complicated and dysfunctional families and characters in the late 1980s. Ten thousand saints is based on a novel which i read about half of. This is the trailer for the book ten thousand saints by eleanor henderson, not the movie we do not own this video. Ten thousand saints by eleanor henderson goodreads. They smoke pot and take plenty of other drugs including cocaine and inhalants. Everything you need to know about ten thousand saints.
The resulting novel, ten thousand saints, is the best thing ive read in a long time. Harold coyle has established himself as one of americas finest suspense novelists. Listen to and download the music, ost, score, list of songs and trailers. A novel and millions of other books are available for instant access. Here are the bestsellers from publishers weekly for the week ending june 11. In ten thousand saints eleanor henderson has written the quintessential novel of new york citys east village in the late 1980s. Ten thousand saints youtube hailee steinfeld talks ten thousand saints, pitch perfect 2, barely lethal and more duration. Ten thousand saints is really about orphanhood, not sainthood. It is found in the book of enoch, a work long lost, but recovered in modern times in abyssinia, supposed to have been composed the century before christ. Adapted from the novel by eleanor henderson, ten thousand saints is a comingofage story about three teenagers in late 1980s.
The story is kind of flat and its hard to get engaged. The goddess can appear as the lady of the ten thousand names, as did isis who was called isis of ten thousand names. Book tells impact of uncle toms cabin on north, south. Emily kathleen anne mortimer born 1 december 1971 is an english actress and screenwriter. Start your 48hour free trial to unlock this ten thousand saints study guide and get instant access to the following. Castmates hawke, hirsch, hailee steinfeld and avan jogia stress the importance of independent cinema at thewrap interview studio at the. Ann patchett, bestselling author of bel canto and state of wonder a sweeping, multigenerational drama, set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring new york city during the late 1980s, ten thousand saints triumphantly heralds the arrival a remarkable. All 32 songs from the 10,000 saints 2015 movie soundtrack, with scene descriptions. Premillennialists assert that this statement refers to the return of the righteous to the earth at the end of the socalled rapture period. Ten thousand saints quotes showing 18 of 8 judes desire for girls was indiscriminate feverish and complete he wanted them all equally and he wanted them not at all. I wanted to live inside its pages, where i could imagine not just the scenes themselves, but the cameras, the lights, the actors reading their lines off to the sides of the set. Even the present, caring parents exercise no control over their kids, who run more or less rampant. The film, based on the novel by eleanor henderson, begins in rural vermont where we meet two bestfriend stoner teens from broken hippy families.
Its not the umbrella were stealing, he whispered back, closing it. To ask other readers questions about ten thousand saints, please sign up. Mostly set in the lower east side of 1980s new york city, ten thousand saints is that rare book that paints scenes so vividly you can imagine the movie in your head. If 10,000 saints return with jesus as we are told in jude 14,15, and the the ratio of nonovercomers to overcomers is 7 to 1 because only one of seven churches was an overcomer church then there will be only 70,000 souls saved from adam to the return of jesus. Nasty baby, slow west, strangerland, ten thousand saints. Ten thousand saints 2015 a teen asa butterfield, a pregnant girl hailee steinfeld and the lead singer emile hirsch of a punkrock band form their own surrogate family in late1980s new york. Ten thousand saints by eleanor henderson, paperback. Seriously, i felt a lot better about jude when about halfway through ten thousand saints he cuts that lock of hair off and has pretty much a normal haircut. Eleanor hendersons fierce, elegiac novel follows a group of friends, lovers, parents and children through the straightedge music scene and. Jude 14,15 jesus returns with ten thousand of his saints. In ten thousand saints, eleanor hendersons debut novel, the ghosts of st.
She truly has breathed life into the east villages recent storied past, and has transformed that neighborhood into a character as vividly realized as her novels people. Parents need to know that ten thousand saints is an edgy drama about two teens in a tough situation, set in 1980s new york. Ann kopitzke the conclusion i drew at the end of the books was the judes. And enoch also, the seventh from adam, prophesied of these, saying, behold, the lord cometh with ten thousand s of his saints, revelation 5. Ten thousand saints is a 2015 american drama film written and directed by shari springer berman and robert pulcini. The book of enochknowing the end at the beginning the word of the blessing of enoch, with which he blessed the elect and righteous, who will be living in the day of tribulation, when all the wicked and godless are to be removed concerning the elect i said, as i began my story concerning them. Ten thousand saints pulsates with fullblooded supporting characters who create a tragicabsurd tapestry of decay and rebellion in the ronald reagan years, from depressed new england to volatile. The story is ten thousand saints is based on a novel which i read about half of. On metacritic, the film has a score of 62 %, based on 12 critics. Notable, browsable lists of the years best music, movies, books, and tv shows.
In saints, a straightedge coming of age set in the late 1980s, eleanor hendersons bittersweet ten thousand saints follows three teens as they search for belonging in a rapidly changing manhattan. A comingofage story about three teenagers in late 1980s new york cityjude asa butterfield, new to the city from vermont, straigh. With four consecutive new york times bestselling novels of epic war, team yankee, sword point, bright star, and trial by fire, he is a master of the supercharged merging of global conflicts, strategy, politics, and probable world events. Marks are brought back to lifehendersons book reads in part like an elegy. Ten thousand saints is set primarily during the youth crew era, a resurgence of a culture that first hit the scene in the 70s.
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