This movie is still being banned in several countries, including Chile and Bulgaria -- presumably because it depicts Christ as having all-too-human traits. There are several other deviations from Scripture as I am familiar with it.
Judas is portrayed as the most loyal apostle -- Christ asks him to fetch the Roman guards for his execution because he knows he's supposed to die on the cross. Saul/Paul is portrayed as a manic man of fervor who thinks nothing of fabricating a story for the sake of perpetuating his religious thought. There are also many references to Magdelene's eroticism and Jesus' response to it. Jesus himself is portrayed as a crossmaker and later as someone who has constant doubts about what he is doing, but does things anyway based on his faith.
I found the expressionist interpretations to be interesting, and I liked the movie a lot, though Jesus comes across as kind of a directionless dilettante. Still, the story says just about the same things that the Gospels do, but through a more humanist filter. At the beginning of the movie is a quote from the author of the original novel that is something to the effect of reconciling the human aspect of Jesus with the supernatural aspect. I'm curious as to everyone's reaction to this movie, both as a movie and as a message in one direction or another.
The Last Temptation of Christ
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Post #11
Did you read the author's thoughts I posted?AlAyeti wrote:I won't see the movie but I think that some Christian scholars should have at least thanked Hollywood for agreeing that Jesus was the Messiah.
Anti-Christian and unimagineably insulting though it is, there is no other person in history that will ever be the Messiah.
Bingo! Should have been the shouts of the protesters back in the day.
How can you view this as anti-Christian and insulting? Particularly since you haven't seen it?
And is "Hollywood" some entity with a single mind? And now this mysterious "Hollywood" entity agrees that Jesus is the Messiah?
Hmmm... I hear that if you wear a hat made of tin foil, the voices become much quieter.
