Scorsese himself hired bodyguards.) These days around the office water cooler people are talking about religion and the politics thereof instead of the latest episode of The Apprentice. Then thousands of Christian fundamentalists picketed Universal Studios which hired a born-again Christian as a liaison to help calm the furor and placed security guards in theater lobbies. (The last time was with the release of Martin Scorsese‘s The Last Temptation of Christ in 1988. For centuries these gospels have been described sermonized and pantomimed but rarely are the intellectual and often esoteric debates underlying the storytelling placed so squarely at the center of popular culture. Interspersed with this action are flashbacks to Jesus’ preaching the last supper and Mary Magdalene’s stoning. Is there any “truth” at all in the story of Jesus of Nazareth’s last 12 hours as told by five men: Matthew Mark Luke John and now Mel? Passion in Aramaic and Latin with English subtitles follows the basic narrative of the gospels starting from the night before Jesus’ crucifixion: Jesus prays Judas betrays him to the priests of the temple Peter denies him Mary and Mary Magdalene weep for him as he carries his cross to the mount where the Romans led by Pontius Pilate will crucify him.
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