Current Events > old excerpts from martin scorsese's jesus movie have been revealed

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https://variety.com/2024/film/global/martin-scorsese-jesus-movie-father-spadaro-script-excerpt-1235953205/

Lets start immersed in the dark.

A painted image of Jesus face suddenly lights up the frame then, just as quickly, it disappears into the darkness again.

CUT to a series of images: a simple wooden cross hanging above a neatly made bed in the apartment of a popular tenement church windows with scenes from the life of Jesus a marble sculpture of Mary holding the body of Jesus in her arms a small gold cross next to a popular image of Jesus praying towards heaven a child sitting at a table looking into tall the cross next to complex colorful drawings for a fictional film titled The Eternal City.

More images of Jesus: other mass-produced family portraits, short moving images from Intolerance, the silent version of [Cecil B. DeMille film] The King of Kings, [Henry Kosters Biblical epic] The Robe and the sound version of King of Kings.

VOICE: Like millions of other children around the world, I grew up surrounded by images of Jesus, all based on a common idea of his appearance and behavior: handsome, with wonderful long hair and beard, ascetic, pious

A scene from Pasolinis The Gospel According to St. Matthew, the sermon on the mountain.

VOICE: When the idea of making cinema started to become concrete, I had in mind to make a film about Christ in the modern world, in modern clothes, shot in 16mm and in black and white in the streets of New York, with apostles in suits and ties in old, peeling, weathered hallways, with the crucifixion set on the West Side piers and cops instead of centurions my world. But then I saw Pasolinis Christ. The setting wasnt modern, but the feeling it conveyed was. There was the immediacy of Christ. Pasolini showed us a Jesus who was often heated and angry. Who fought His film had made what I had in mind become quite superfluous, but it inspired me to keep going.

bros... maybe i should get pasolini-pilled. do you think jesus would approve of salo?

Wouldn't see it.... but that visual of Jesus in modern NY with police officers in place of Romans is striking.

but that visual of Jesus in modern NY with police officers in place of Romans is striking

Woody Guthrie was the man!

https://youtu.be/EDS00Pnhkqk?si=2b5iLUFr1C7_9RUM