373 The Last Temptation of Christ Part 2

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

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🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 118 minutes

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On this episode of The Cine-Files, Steve Morris and John Rocha continue their SEASON OF MARTIN SCORSESE with Part 2 of their deep dive into 1988's THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST. Considered one of the most thought provoking and controversial movies about the life of Jesus Christ. It focuses on his struggle with various forms of temptation including fear, doubt, depression, reluctance, and lust. Based on the book by Nikos Kazantzakis with a screenplay from Paul Schrader, the film received one Oscar nomination for Best Director for Scorsese and a Grammy for the soundtrack titled PASSION composed by musician Peter Gabriel. The film stars Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey, David Bowie, and Harry Dean Stanton.

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0:00.0	If you and me could you betray your master?
0:03.0	No.
0:05.0	That's why God gave me the easier job. Hello and welcome once again to the cinnophiles where this week we are continuing
0:19.7	our season of Scorsese and continuing our exploration of the last temptation of Christ.
0:24.0	My name is Steve Morris. I'm a filmmaker in directing instructor in Los Angeles, California.
0:28.0	Hello, my name is John Rokham, a writer, producer and host, and voice over artist here in San Diego, California.
0:35.0	And it's funny doing this film because there is no end of thinking about these stories
0:41.8	and what they mean, and as I was reviewing my notes
0:44.1	there's more things that came up which just makes this I mean to say that the story of Jesus
0:49.4	is a deep thing to get into it's like maybe the under the under statement of the
0:54.8	multi millennia I think yeah yeah well I mean it the thing is that when you look at
0:59.8	it's in so many ways I did the same thing I spent the last few days kind of reading other
1:05.6	analysis like from theologians and from Christian philosophers about this movie, both positive and negative, you know, and I thought it was a nice way to kind of expand my mind about the film and not necessarily influence my opinions, but to hear what other people and I didn't agree with most
1:27.0	with some of it most of it maybe I didn't agree with on both sides so I
1:32.1	found that to be a fascinating experience. And I think it's because this is such an important story and my own religious as we talked about in our religion film conversation, but then also as a film critic or film an analyst for lack of a better term, you know, I find this an interesting a very interesting film to break down and discuss and so I want to make sure I'm in the right place and I'm
2:05.0	aware of what my real feelings are about the film as I discuss it with you.
2:07.0	I feel the same way and it's funny.
2:10.0	As I'm thinking about this film, I don't know that I put this movie as one of the great films.
2:16.0	No, I'm not sure that I do.
2:18.0	Yeah, I'm not sure that I do.
2:20.0	But the subject matter is without question one of the great subject matters it's one of the most
2:24.2	important subject matters in our in our civilization yes you know regardless of your belief and so I think
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