the Last Temptation of Christ: C/D?

I'm afraid I don't have much else to contribute besides that (being a non-Catholic who hasn't seen the actual movie), though reading Scorsese on Scorsese proved illuminating.

Oh yeah the movie. Hm.

NGAH?!

Wake me when "G.I.Jesus" comes out.

The movie... erm. Well, a cut above the usual Christian-baiting stuff, and two cuts above the usual "The Robe" style Christian-sanctifying stuff (though I have to admit I have a weakness for those.) We used to watch it every Easter, just because. ;-)

I like Barbara Hershey. She's excellent. I am a huge fan of Mr. Dafoe. Supercool as Jesus.

The ending with the technicolored Stan Brakhage type stuff was awesome.

And I agree about the soundtrack. It's crazy that NIN sampled it!

soundtrack to this shit is awwwwesome

In my day, a premium choice for hot hot dorm room sex. (Did you remember to put the scrunchy on the doorknob?)

the sources disc is good too

harvey keitel's judas was a little rich.

-- s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, February 24, 2004 5:23 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

after getting those 30 pieces of silver, sure!

Music, great. Film, dud, spoiled by wildly inappropriate accents as much as anything else. If there's one thing even Gibson/Passion-haters have to agree, it's that the attention to language/detail in the Gibson film was ace. It's kind of spoiled other "historical" films for me where they speak in English (when the characters wouldn't have).

like "romeo and juliet" for example

if only shakespeare had paid as much attention to the language and detail of italy as gibson did to judea and galilee

shakespeare's "italy" was more or less invented, tho

ha, like gibson's "jerusalem" wasn't?

uh yeah but the bible's jerusalem wasn't. we have texts in aramaic, there's no original italian version of romeo and juliet

god i need to get out of the house

yeah but scorsese differs so greatly from the bible on plot points that you can hardly expect him to make the accents scrupulously faithful

yeah, that's true. i should see this again but i remember bowie as pilate being good. and john lurie! who's he, thomas or something? if john lurie is in your movie, i will go see it.

My main problem was Keitel as Brooklyn Judas.

like "romeo and juliet" for example

-- max, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 00:41 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Link

if only shakespeare had paid as much attention to the language and detail of italy as gibson did to judea and galilee

-- max, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 00:42 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Good non-argument, though. Shakespeare, that well-known Hollywood director of historical films.

how was Last Temptation a historical film other than that it did recreate events from the Bible sprinkled with a story that was mostly fiction?

HOW CUM THE PPL IN STAR WARS ALL SPEAK ENGLISHSHSH

The Sound of Music wd be way better if they all spoke German.

I don't get why they had english accents tho

implacable upper-class gravitas in English is the way to go with historical films.

"I say Genghis, would you pass the Yak milk please?"

"Certainly old chap. Wind's getting up on the Steppes tonight, what?"

I wish everybody in Boyz in the Hood spoke like Michael Caine

just saw this again for the third time. surprisingly fewer special features than most Criterion dvds, but the movie alone is worth it. beautifully shot too

Love this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHOTGt0amOQ

I love both the movie and the Gabriel soundtrack. both are favorites. but the Gabriel soundtrack is just chilling at times.

I don't even mind that it's even a bit tacky in places (e.g. the walloping beats on a few tracks).

may even be my favorite Gabriel

was definitely my favorite when it came out, and for a few years after, but it sounds pretty dated to me now; I think I even prefer Us to it. but, of it's time, it's pretty good.

Glenn Kenny on the BluRay:

While the first Criterion standard-def disc was released, it was “fine,” as they say, but not as special as one felt maybe it ought to have been. This new Blu-ray IS all that. Utterly beautiful. Seeing it in this presentation, with fresh eyes, it’s like a new film, and there’s so much to see IN it. This time around, for instance, for the first time I really felt its Bressonian touches—the shots of hands, of gestures, of figures walking. The colors in this version , the ever-so-slightly pink sand of the desert; amazing. We can finally revel in this as one of Scorsese’s very greatest films. A real blessing.

David Bowie's Roman haircut like you've never seen it before!

This movie manages to omit everything I cherish about the Gospels while adding a lot of unhelpful bs, incorporate Paul's misogyny and necrophilia while (rightfully) denouncing the man himself, and still stand as a decent adaptation of the Parable of the Talents overall. Iow, a righteous mess.

How do you find that it denounces Jesus? I think the movie successfully takes up the novel's ambition to point up the high flesh-v-spirit stakes, and pretty clearly has him coming out on top

or you mean Paul here I guess?

anyway one of my favorite films ever, I love the way all the lines sound dubbed in, something uncannily off about every frame

Bowie's scene = A+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWuN3baaui8

or you mean Paul here I guess?
― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII)

I do. Paul is portrayed as a snake oil salesman, telling people what they want to hear, except what he's peddling is real medicine, which he spoils with his disingenuousness.

Reading 1 Timothy 5 in HDS' televangelist voice is a lot of fun btw.

Judas with a Brooklyn accent = SUBLIME.
― Star Hustler, Tuesday, February 24, 2004 12:26 AM (sixteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yaw place was on da cross!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Qcv3YV4aA

tbqh i like Keitel and all the other natural accents in TLToC. As for EG Robinson, far less ridiculous than many other things in T10C (exploding tablets, Anne Baxter, etc).

far less ridiculous than many other things in T10C

bar is set pretty low!

haha I liked it! I think the Brooklyn accents work fine. I had seen the final shot years ago but seeing it actually at the end of the movie was astonishing, it made me weep and I have no real affinity with the Gospels... just a stunning and singularly cinematic ending, so graceful, violent, simple, and beautiful...

Really the only thing that comes close to ruining it is the awful Peter Gabriel score. Jesus, that score is SO bad. it's not used that much in the movie though, and the final song is great.

I like The Ten Commandments.

flappy bird! I love the Peter Gabriel score and I often consider it his most fully realized, most powerful album, but then again I heard it as a discrete sonic entity yeaaars before I watched the movie.

Separate from the movie I wouldn't mind it and would probably like it, some of the pieces were nice, it's just that awful gated reverb 80s production and those horrible horrible drums. The one sequence where they all march into the market/temple and that music is playing it's just... It makes me think of Toto. Last sequence rules and makes up for it