Word: crucifixion
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...serenely strolls from parable to parable uttering the familiar sacred idioms that have now been fully disseminated into secular vocabulary. Pasolini often floods the screen with the prophet’s unassuming, uni-browed visage, his immobile facial features accentuating the authority of his compassionate words. His crucifixion and subsequent resurrection are terse and understated, barely even serving their proper roles as climax and denouement to the film. In this Gospel, Christ is less a man than a visual summation of his words...
...Jesus has brief onscreen sex with his first wife Mary Magdalene and later commits adultery. Judas is a hero, the strongest and best of the apostles. Paul is a hypocrite and liar. Jesus is so dazed that, even on the eve of his Crucifixion, he is still not quite sure whether to preach love or murder Romans. Ready for Director Martin Scorsese's new movie, The Last Temptation of Christ? ... When it opens this Friday, religious crowd scenes are almost certain to appear outside the theaters as well as in them. For the past month, conservative Christians have denounced...
Gulay accuses Gibson of antisemitism: “Gibson never wants people to forget that we are ultimately responsible for his Lord crucifixion. And by people I mean the Jews.” I’d like to hear Gulay’s justification for this, since his article provides none. I saw the film last night, and if Gibson had an antisemitic agenda, he failed miserably. Simon the Cyrenian emerges as a major hero in the second half of the film. As in the gospels, one of the thieves (yes, a Jew) is seen as a sympathetic figure...
Released to coincide with Ash Wednesday, the film presents what Gibson, the director, calls a historically accurate picture of the events leading to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ...
...right question to ask is whether the film implicitly or explicitly sees the Jews of later times...as condemned, damned, or sinful, because of the complicity of some of their ancestors in the crucifixion,” Cohen wrote in an e-mail...