[Fundie gives a review of The Last Temptation of Christ]
This film is an abomination and sacriligious, yet it garners an Oscar nod for Scorcese. Sickening. A film like The Passion of the Christ was not EMBELLISHED upon or ADDED TO in any way, and taken straight from the Gospels, gets nothing.
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Considering that, from an historical viewpoint, the gospels have been added to and embellished wontonly, I find your last sentence to be complete and utter bullshit. Just sayin'
Or it might have to do with the fact that it was blatantly anti-Semitic (Mel seems to forget that a rather large percentage of the people in his industry are Jewish), that it was more violent and gory than a typical slasher film (which, you'll note, also never get Oscar nominations), or that it was made by Mel Gibson (who has not made anything worth used toilet paper since Braveheart), which these days is reason enough.
I think you'll find that Pilate's little speech about how his hands were completely tied (and it is therefore totally the fault of the Jews) is not scriptural.
Nor, as many Biblical and history scholars have written, is even the Bible's account likely accurate, since Pilate is documented as being a pretty callous and amoral governor who found execution to be a fairly effective way to keep the locals in line. If the temple authorities wanted a man executed because he was "stirring up the people", Pilate would have had no trouble at all with immediate death for that person.
Kidmaniac, it's pretty clear you've never read the gospel because otherwise you'd know that the Passion of the Christ "storyline" doesn't exist there.
BTW, Last Temptation had an awesome soundtrack by Peter Gabriel.
Yes, Mel did embellish the Passion. No where in the Bible does it indicate Satan appeared to Jesus on the cross.
And I think the Oscar "snub" of TPotC had a lot more to do with the fact that it was hyper-violent, filmed in a dead language, had little or no plot, and was blatantly made as a religious "experience" film. These factors pretty much made the film inaccessible to all but a select group of fundamentalist and evangelistic Christians, who generally are not the people making the nominations for the Academy Awards. Hell, the biggest fans of the film stated outright that they never went to the movies on moral grounds, but were making an exception for this film.
Sorry, but as far as I am concerned, Pilatuss wife didn´t help Mary or Magdaleine(and they were not allowed to get into the torture chamber, for that matter), Peter didn´t encounter Mary after denying him and there were no encounters with the demon before his death. Can I carry on?
"The Last Temptation of Christ" didn't win any Oscars, it only got nominations. And it's not sacriligious; the scene you're describing is a fucking dream sequence. And finally, theology aside, LTC is just a better movie than PotC in every way.
@fromdownunder
Damn, if he only had said no to the friendly Roman centurion when asked:
"Crucifiction? ..... yes ? .... allright, to the left, one cross each"
And I still say ...
Crucifiction, you lucky bastard !
Well... at least it is one thing the Romans did for us .... apart from .... sanitation. eductation, public safety, etc. etc. ...
@Marlowe
Actually, the movie IS technically sacreligious, but not because of the sex. The sacreligous part is how it depicts Judas as following orders when he led the Romans to Jesus rather than betraying him out of a sense of evil or whatever.
Still, just because it's a sacreligious movie doesn't make it bad. As Roger Ebert says, it's not what a movie's about, it's how it's about it.
So, can someone who actually watched TPotC tell me...did they keep in the bit from the original script about the cross being built in the Temple courtyard? That bit was part of an anti-Semitic 19th(?)-century trend...hearing that Gibson et al had included that detail let me know early on that I could just disregard the whole project.
(Besides, if I'm going to watch SM porn, I'll just watch something that admits it's SM porn.)
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