article_snippet.sent: You could make the case that authenticity is the coin of our current entertainment realm, and that filmmakers are competing to make filmmakers work as historically accurate as possible.
article_snippet.sent: Contemporary viewers are too savvy to stomach the fake beards and odd accents that littered the camels-and-sandals epics of eras past.
article_snippet.sent: Filmmakers and networks are in touch with the fact that the complexion of America has changed," said Stephenson Humphries-Brooks, a religion scholar and author of "Cinematic Savior: Hollywood's Making of the American Christ.
article_snippet.sent: A large number of Americans are people of color: Latinos and Middle Easterners and people from India," Humphries-Books continued.
article_snippet.sent: That means the audience base is shifting in various and important ways.
article_snippet.sent: the audience base may be shifting, but the audience base's also tuning in.