Talk:Lilies of the Field (1963 film)

Black american
poitier himself is referred to as "black-american" (the first black-american to win an oscar). he's not afaik. he's black but west indian, so i woulnd't call that black american really. The character is african-american though. I changed it to just black, if there is an argument against this or a better term, someone else can change it. --66.108.113.147 01:49, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Interpretation of quoted biblical passage
I just watched this sweet film, and am confused why the Wiki page misquotes Luke 12:27, one of the most beautiful passages in the Christian bible. The language is, and is correctly quoted by Homer Smith (Sidney Poitier) as: "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." In essence, it means, Don't worry about the material things you lack, and how you will get them--God will provide, and more fully and beautifully than any human effort could. Particularly because the scene in which Homer passionately delivers the passage to Mother Maria no less than defines the plot of the film, I suggest the quote be corrected. Lisamichellemurdock (talk) 04:57, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:20, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Famously tone deaf, eh what??
you can get an idea of just how 'tone deaf'.. when watching the last few mins of The Defiant Ones (1958)... Poitier, singing something bout a bowling green/sewing machine holds Curtis in his lap, waiting for the posse/sheriff to walk on up.. and as the scene fades, you can ALMOST catch Curtis starting to break up/laugh.. 76.218.248.127 (talk) 23:46, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

The plot is garbled and overlapping
I watched the film yesterday. The plot in the article is confused. It describes fifteen minutes, say, then rewinds ten minutes and has another go. If I hadn't watched the film it would not make sense. Ralph Corderoy (talk) 13:12, 2 March 2023 (UTC)