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Became during filming
One of the most famous and beautiful films of all time, Zefirelli’s 1977 film about Jesus, so to speak, palette-centric, free of extremes: Jesus of Nazareth It has actors like Laurence Olivier, Antony Quinn, Michael York, Peter Ustinov or Claudia Cardinale. The six-hour movie could even be called a miniseries with a genre rating in vogue today. Jesus is played by the young Robert Powell, who originally would have played the role of Judas, but the director realized during camera rehearsals that he could be an excellent Jesus because of his suggestive gaze and blue eyes. So he became perhaps Jesus Powell’s best known filmmaker, and non plus ultra in all of that.
The previously completely atheist actor, who was not at all receptive to the question of faith, repented during the formation of the role.
An Israeli pastor got lost, he became Jesus
Earlier, the quintessential ’73 hippie era exploded terribly. Jesus Christ Superstar, which is also deservedly a fantastic hit on the rock stages. The play, based on the rock opera by the legendary composer-lyric duo Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, focuses on the figure of Judas. That the work was described as profane, blasphemous and even anti-Semitic in its day is almost natural. (We note the name of the director Norman Jewison). The basic premise of the film is that a group of actors arrive in a worn and battered hippie-like minibus in an Israeli desert, filming location, and after some preparations and unpacking the costumes, they set out to tell the best story of all the times. Judas sits on the step of a cliff, looking across the desert, wondering what dangers Jesus had inflicted on the poor Jews.
In contrast to the money-hungry, greedy, and hypocritical Judas of the Gospels, Carl Anderson, Judas of the Superstar, is kind of imperative for Jesus.
(Ted Neeley) also deeply understands him, feels his pain. At the end of the movie, the actors unpack and pack the sets, then get in the minibus and go home. The camera scans the scene, but the actor who plays Jesus is missing. In the last scene, you can see the silhouette of the cross and a mysterious figure in motion before sunset. In fact, an Israeli shepherd was confused with the filming location, but the director abandoned the cleverly spooky scene that turned out to be the perfect ending to his film.
The original stage work had an elemental impact in 1970, a few months after Woodstock and the whole explosion of 1968, Webber and Rice molded a sense of life for an era. The film also had an elemental impact on the sixteenth generation of infinite longing for freedom: instead of large communities (colonies), vacant marriages, it preached a cult of free relationships based on desire and love, and articulated a critique of the church, religion and society.
Violent pornography: only blood and suffering
They yearned for, loved and attacked Mel Gibson’s large-scale movie, passiont, which due to the exaggerated brutality of some is called only violent porn. Aside from Jim Caviesel’s Jesus, the film, starring none other than Maya Morgenstein (Mary) and Monica Belluci (Mary Magdalene), focuses exclusively on the story of suffering: it shows the last twelve hours of Jesus’ life, with much blood. In 2004, it was considered the most controversial work of the year.
Filming the brutal movie was brutal too: Jim Caviezel’s body was put in makeup scenes for about 8-10 hours a day, during which he couldn’t even sit down. His body reacted to the materials used with a skin allergy, suffering from a headache. Eating also caused him problems, food was not left on him.
Due to the cold, windy, and drafty location, the crucifixion scenes were recorded in ten-minute stages, leading to Caviezel’s pneumonia.
Mel Gibson is currently planning a sequel to Resurrection with an advanced setting.
The sex scene that doesn’t fit anymore
Scorsese’s 1988 film, a The last temptation of Christt He was accused of anti-Christianity, banned in several countries, branded blasphemous. Things got so bad that on October 22, 1988, members of an extremist Christian group set fire to the Sain Michel cinema in Paris while the film was showing, seriously injuring 13 people. Evangelist Bill Bright offered Universal Studio to buy all copies of the film for destruction, and the Roman Catholic Church also tried to ban it around the world.
In 1997, we managed to prevent it from also being shown on Hungarian television.
Scorsese used Nikos Kazantzakis’s novel of the same title as a starting point for his narrative with a whole new perspective. He portrayed Jesus (Willem Dafoe) as a man struggling with his desires and the role of savior, who, after being tempted for the last time by Satan, fantasizes about his life with Mary Magdalene, even on the cross. The sex scene that came to life at that time no longer suited the tastes of many.
A satire of Monty Python
It’s not a classic Jesus movie, but a must-see satire on the list, and as a cinematic experience, it’s the 1979 Life of Brian, a brilliant Monty Python comedy.
The unfortunate Brian, who was born and died like Jesus, is confused step by step with the Messiah.
It can’t get off the paper, but in the movie, Jesus himself appears, albeit only somewhere far away in the background. The film is a critique of religious fanaticism and hypocrisy, all the more so because in Britain at the time blasphemy was still treated as a crime, the creators risked jail with it. However, over time, the play has grown into a true cult film for audiences taking on absurd humor, with generations of cheesemakers and Ficus Kukis blowing outside for generations around the world.
Holy Virgin, feminist reading
Garth Davis’s relatively recent film, Maria Magdalena focuses on one of the most misunderstood (misunderstood) forms of Christianity. A young woman leaves her small fishing village and her family to join a radical new social movement. The charismatic leader of the movement is Jesus of Nazareth, who promises that the world will change. Mary Magdalene was already a courtesan, lover of Christ, and miraculous saint. The film, starring Rooney Mara and Joaquim Phoenix, is feminist in color and shows that
According to the Bible, a woman can be two things, a virgin and a sinful prostitute, a reading that has not completely lost its validity.
(Cover image: Passion. Photo: Producent / outnow.ch)
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