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Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. My name is Rob Lamb.

And I'm Joe McCormick. And today on Weird House

Cinema, we're going to be talking about the 1988 film, The Last Temptation of Christ, directed by

Martin Scorsese, based on the 1955 novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, which addresses one of the central

mysteries of Christianity,

how could God become a human, and what would that be like?

I had somehow never seen this movie before, which might come as a surprise to listeners

who kind of know my, oh, I don't know, my tastes of narratives of antiquity and the Bible and stuff like that.

But somehow I'd never seen it before.

And wow, I loved it.

I can't wait to talk about so many things about this movie.

But I'm so glad you picked it for this week, Rob.

Awesome.

Yeah, this is a film that I had never seen before either, but I've been drawn to it for most of my life in a weird way.

And it's weird like that with films, you know? It's like sometimes something remains on the two watch list for most of your time here on Earth.

And then when you finally get around to it well sometimes it's just

it's just that's when you were meant to see it you know so i was i was 10 years old when this

film first came out so i don't really you know i certainly don't remember the marketing for it

i don't remember trailers for it and i don't actually remember any of the initial controversy about it, which we'll get into.

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