How Real-Life Tragedy Inspired Jewish Thriller ‘Guns & Moses’
The post How Real-Life Tragedy Inspired Jewish Thriller ‘Guns & Moses’ appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Mark Feuerstein as Rabbi Mo Zaltzman in ‘Guns & Moses’ Courtesy of Pictures from the Fringe Your average orthodox rabbi on the street is more likely to be holding a pair of teffilin than he is a gun. That same rabbi is more likely to eat a pound of bacon than he is to solve a murder. Okay, maybe the bacon thing is a bit hyperbolic, but the rest of the argument still stands: Jewish clergymen don’t fit into the traditional badass action hero archetype. Filmmaker Salvador Litvak hopes to change all that with his neo-Western thriller, Guns & Moses (in theaters everywhere this Friday; click here for tickets). “Hollywood has been all too quick to either show dead Jews in the Holocaust or shticky, nebbishy Jews, which I enjoy,” says Litvak, whom you may know better as Accidental Talmudist. “I love Seinfeld and Larry David … and Adam Sandler. I love those comedies. But that’s not the limit of Jewish experience, God knows.” Despite its cheeky title, the project — which Litvak wrote alongside his wife and Pictures From The Fringe producing partner, Nina — “was always meant to be a proper thriller with a lot of action in it,” explains the director. “We really did a deep dive on the genre. We watched a thriller a day for two years, six days a week (we didn’t watch one on Shabbos).” Set in the fictional California town of High Desert, the movie centers around Moses “Mo” Zaltzman (Mark Feuerstein; Royal Pains), a local Chabad rabbi who gradually decides to solve the murder of philanthropist and solar energy magnate Alan Rosner (Dermot Mulroney; My Best Friends’s Wedding) after the man is publicly gunned down at a community event. Everyone, including the town’s sympathetic mayor, Donavon Kirk (Neal McDonough; Captain America:…
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Mark Feuerstein as Rabbi Mo Zaltzman in ‘Guns & Moses’ Courtesy of Pictures from the Fringe Your average orthodox rabbi on the street is more likely to be holding a pair of teffilin than he is a gun. That same rabbi is more likely to eat a pound of bacon than he is to solve a murder. Okay, maybe the bacon thing is a bit hyperbolic, but the rest of the argument still stands: Jewish clergymen don’t fit into the traditional badass action hero archetype. Filmmaker Salvador Litvak hopes to change all that with his neo-Western thriller, Guns & Moses (in theaters everywhere this Friday; click here for tickets). “Hollywood has been all too quick to either show dead Jews in the Holocaust or shticky, nebbishy Jews, which I enjoy,” says Litvak, whom you may know better as Accidental Talmudist. “I love Seinfeld and Larry David … and Adam Sandler. I love those comedies. But that’s not the limit of Jewish experience, God knows.” Despite its cheeky title, the project — which Litvak wrote alongside his wife and Pictures From The Fringe producing partner, Nina — “was always meant to be a proper thriller with a lot of action in it,” explains the director. “We really did a deep dive on the genre. We watched a thriller a day for two years, six days a week (we didn’t watch one on Shabbos).” Set in the fictional California town of High Desert, the movie centers around Moses “Mo” Zaltzman (Mark Feuerstein; Royal Pains), a local Chabad rabbi who gradually decides to solve the murder of philanthropist and solar energy magnate Alan Rosner (Dermot Mulroney; My Best Friends’s Wedding) after the man is publicly gunned down at a community event. Everyone, including the town’s sympathetic mayor, Donavon Kirk (Neal McDonough; Captain America:…
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