
The Good Samaritan Tends the Wounded Man
A traveller pours oil from a flask onto the bandaged arm of a man lying on a rocky road, with a donkey beside them. A distant figure walks away up the road.
Prompt
Luke 10: the good Samaritan. On the steep, rocky road down from Jerusalem to Jericho, a Samaritan traveller, large and central, kneels beside a beaten, half-dead man lying on the roadside, gently pouring oil and wine from a small flask onto his bandaged wounds and binding them with strips of linen; the Samaritan's patient donkey with saddlebags stands beside them. Bare golden desert hills and a winding road behind in warm late-afternoon light; far up the road a priest walks away. Compassion and mercy, nothing graphic. Both men wear wrapped turbans or head-cloths over their hair. Style: a blend of photo-realism and cinema, like a still from a big-budget film. Bright, rich, saturated, luminous colour, clear daylight or glowing golden light even in dramatic scenes, never murky or muddy, crisp detail, real human faces full of emotion, shallow depth of field, subtle film grain. Simple, uncluttered composition: ONE clear scene from this chapter, with the chapter's main character or characters large, close and central in the upper and middle frame, and a simple background. No montage, no collage, no inset vignettes, no crowd of small figures competing for attention. Historically accurate ancient Near Eastern clothing, architecture and landscape. Keep the bottom quarter of the frame simple and uncluttered (ground, water or sky) so a large chapter number can be set over it. Absolutely no text, no letters, no words, no numbers, no logos, no watermark, no border, no frame.
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