I watched Samson and Delilah (1984 - TV movie) because, honestly, I thought it would be funny. It delivered. 📜 The Era Shall we? 🙂 Let's briefly summarize the Samson era. It was in pre-king time — Book of Judges. Israel wasn't even unified ("tribal confederacy"), hence the "judges" to lead (or protect) them. Samson was the last of the judges in the Book of Judges — Samuel is considered the last of the judges before the unification ➡️ King Saul ➡️ King David. The Samson story took place in ~1200-1000 BC (or BCE). Let's take the average, 1100 BC , somewhere in Middle East vast region. Without the number, we might still roughly deduce that the era was sometime before the Classical Greece. In another words, Romans were still, well, had not even begun to call themselves "Romans" yet... Give or take 🤷♂️ 🎬 The Take The plot is actually very similar to the original story. Hollywood usually doesn't do that. And then... Let...