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    Last Temptation Of Christ, The (1988)

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    Wherever it was shown, Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation Of Christ caused controversy and sometimes violent demonstrations, whether in Protestant America and Great Britain or Catholic Italy.

    In America, there were pickets outside the cinemas where it was shown and militant religious groups threatened to use bombs.

    lasttemptation2After similar protests at the Venice Film Festival and a condemnation from the Vatican, trouble then flared up in France when five Catholics set fire to a cinema for daring to show the film.

    What caused such passions to be aroused? Principally it was the dream-on-the-cross sequence, during which Jesus imagines himself making love to Mary Magdalene, and dreams of the companionship of marriage and a family.

    Scorsese wanted to show Christ as a man suffering human doubts and desires and to present audiences with a Christ for the 1980s.

    Far from being blasphemous, this portrait was reconcilable with the Bible’s notion of the Son of God made man.

    Jesus Christ
    Willem Dafoe
    Judas Iscariot
    Harvey Keitel
    Mary Magdalene
    Barbara Hershey
    Saul/Paul
    Harry Dean Stanton
    Pontius Pilate
    David Bowie
    Mary, mother of Jesus
    Verna Bloom
    Jeroboam
    Barry Miller
    Andrew
    Gary Basaraba
    Zebedee
    Irvin Kershner
    Peter
    Victor Argo
    John
    Michael Been
    Phillip
    Paul Herman
    James
    John Lurie
    Nathaniel
    Leo Burmester
    John the Baptist
    André Gregory
    Martha
    Peggy Gormley
    Mary
    Randy Danson
    Lazarus
    Tomas Arana

    Director
    Martin Scorsese

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