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...Years Ago in TIME The emotional response stirred by Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ is hardly unprecedented. Witness the furor from Christian groups over Martin Scorsese's fictionalized version of the life of Jesus, The Last Temptation of Christ, the subject of a 1988 TIME cover...
...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...
...that the film “focuses on the brutality and bloodshed visited upon Jesus, cleverly usurping the message of love and brotherhood, only to replace it with the message of intolerance, sin and violence” misses the point entirely. The critical moment in Christianity, Christians believe, was precisely when Jesus endured the hell depicted in the film. Christ went through it, according to Christian belief, so that the people that he loved (read: “everybody”) could be saved. Gibson attempted to depict the extent of that sacrifice. How successful Gibson was in doing this...
...What I saw on the screen was an overplaying of Jewish guilt in the death of Christ without the accompanying compassion that Jesus himself preached throughout his lifetime,” he said...
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...