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The Last Temptation of Christ
1988 · Film · 164 min
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas -- despite his protestations that love, not violence, is the path to salvation. The burden of being the savior of mankind torments Jesus throughout his life, leading him to doubt.
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Until I looked up the original and discovered that "recaps" was meant to be taken literally, I was ready to be impressed*, as I'm a fan of those trailers that tell different stories, eg: death star as insurance fraud, or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekXxi9IKZSA (an interpretation so strong, it even continues to work for the sequel)
which implication specifically? (for me zero extension is that set about which all predicates, even normally contradictory ones, are true)
in space-time anyway the GP appears to have had quite a bit of geometric extension, even in eigentime.
Lagniappe: Joseph as sabra? https://64.media.tumblr.com/6d601f74ae9201df318403b8c7e25b32/8df80a8c15078c25-5b/s1280x1920/9ea757024b35e42b365be653e70f8ac681071f30.jpg
compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Temptation_of_Christ_(film)#:~:text=While%20on%20the,and%20dies%2e ?
* but maybe I'm insufficiently suspending disbelief, as in my world, female grad students in archaeology wind up more often in places like Ürümqi, not in places like "Wilson"?
I guess the question is how to remain content with the ordinary yet still seek out the extraordinary? Look at the stars but keep your feet on the ground? (观星步土?)
> A man's retch should exceed his grasp / Or what's a heaving for? —not RB
The Last Temptation of Christ was my first experience with the right-wing/religious uproar about a movie was as a teen still keeping peace with the parental units by attending mom's church. At the time, I really had no interest in seeing the movie, but not because the preacher man said not to. Just wasn't my thing. However, it was very eye opening on the weaponization of the pulpit and only accelerated my move away from church.
He really didn't. People who don't really know his work think he just makes mobster movies. But he is actually a quite a varied filmmaker. How does being "depressed, violent, and Italian" fit into The Last Temptation of Christ (which controversially reinterpreted Jesus' story), or Hugo, about the great French filmmaker Georges Méliès? Or Kundun about the Dalai Lama? Or Silence about Japanese Christians?
I've never even seen the movie The Last Temptation of Christ but the soundtrack is always the first thing I think of whenever this topic comes up... https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqnnuEVGcRQy6dzmNbXJpU5mfGXVoaCqT
Getting triggered would be how some reacted to The Last Temptation of Christ by Martin Scorsese. I was the opposite. I was untriggered by this Matrix. I'm uninterested because I predicted (correctly it seems) that this Matrix was going to be a dull and uninteresting film.
The Last Temptation of Christ is, mildly speaking, complete garbage when it comes to theology. It actively subverts the gospels and tries to lower Jesus into the realm of natural man. The film has a few nuggets that might be interesting for those learned in religion, but it serves more as a reflection of Paul Shrader's personal struggles with faith at that point in his life. The latter point isn't all that unusual; Kevin Smith (Dogma) and Trey Parker/Matt Stone (South Park, Book of Mormon (musical)) likewise do the same.
The Chosen takes a reverent interpretation. It makes no apologies for having creative license, the Bible isn't meant to be a screen play after all, but it does so in a manner consistent with the character of Jesus both in the Bible and as believers understand him to be. He is fully human and fully God. He weaves the qualities of both throughout the show with the way he handles emotions, miracles, passing down wisdom, and so forth.
Too much condescending tone in this "proposal"...
I think people just want to see the film. I certainly want to see the film. It might have a crappy plot or a second-rate screenplay or subpar acting, but with this sort of publicity none of that matters. Just watching it will be an event, perhaps an even bigger event than watching The Last Temptation of Christ was way-back-when...
Anyway, Sony seems to be in a defiant stance. It doesn't seem like Sony is going to yield; it seems like they are going to just find an alternative distribution path: "No thanks, 2600. We got this. After all, this is the sort of hype that we'd... uhh... kill for.... uh..."
Agreed and now about a million more people will have heard about this project that otherwise probably wouldn't have.
This reminds me a little of when The Last Temptation of Christ came out in the late 80's. All the bible-thumpers were screaming about how blasphemous it was and that everyone should boycot it. Which, of course, people being people they did the exact opposite and had to endure what turned out to be a pretty bad film.