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The Last Temptation of Christ Director: Martin Scorsese Cast: Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey, Harry Dean Stanton

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  • DVD Release Date: 04/25/2000
  • Original Release: 1988
  • Rating: Rated R
  • Sales Rank: 2,911

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New widescreen digital transfer, approved by the filmmakers and enhanced for widescreen televisions; New Dolby Digital 5.1 channel soundtrack by original supervising sound editor Skip Lievsay; Audio commentary by Martin Scorsese, Willem Dafoe, Paul Schrader, and Jay Cocks; Extensive collection of research materials, production stills, and costume designs; Location production footage, shot by Scorsese; Video interview with composer Peter Gabriel, plus a stills gallery of the instruments used in the film; English subtitles; Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

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Side #1 --
1. Logos [:29]
2. The Feeling Begins [6:33]
3. "Condemned to Die" [5:22]
4. Magdalene [5:02]
5. "I Need You to Forgive Me" [5:31]
6. The Master [5:18]
7. Purified [5:09]
8. The Sermon on the Mount [8:39]
9. The Foundation [6:04]
10. John the Baptist [5:34]
11. "Speak to Me in Human Words" [7:52]
12. Return from the Desert [7:34]
13. Casting Out Devils and Working Cures [5:43]
14. Rejected at Nazareth [4:24]
15. Lazarus [4:11]
16. The Saint of Blasphemy [5:32]
17. The Shadow of the Cross [4:45]
18. "King of the Jews" [:02]
19. Waiting for the Sign [3:51]
20. Passover/ The Last Supper [5:56]
21. "Do I Have to Die?" [4:35]
22. Pontius Pilate [5:32]
23. Golgotha [4:29]
24. "Why Have You Forsaken Me?" [6:43]
25. The World of God [4:38]
26. "There's Only One Woman in the World" [8:17]
27. Paul [4:00]
28. Moving On [6:27]
29. "It is Accomplished" [8:29]
30. Credits [2:32]

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Editorial Reviews

Willem Dafoe plays Jesus Christ in this extraordinarily controversial adaptation of Nikos Kazantzaki's novel. The film depicts a sometimes reluctant, self-doubting Jesus, gradually coming to accept His divinity and the inexorability of His ultimate fate. The much-maligned sex scene with Mary Magdalene (Barbara Hershey) occurs as an hallucination experienced by Jesus as he suffers on the cross. This particular sequence was what infuriated the film's most rabid critics, but in fact it is just one of many iconoclastic musings to be found in the film and its source novel. Equally volatile are the intimations that, as a carpenter, Jesus indifferently shaped the crucifixes for other condemned prisoners long before his own fate was sealed, and that Judas (Harvey Keitel) was literally manipulated into betrayal by a Christ whose preoccuption with his own destiny compelled him to "use" others. None of these departures from the normal interpretation of the scriptures are offered as any more than theory; as such, it was accepted as food for thought by the more open-minded clerics and Biblical scholars who recommended the film. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Last Temptation of Christby Anonymous

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January 30, 2006: First of all, remember that being tempted is not the same as giving into temptation. We are all tempted on a daily basis, but our "good" is how we say "no" to the temptation. I feel this is what the author was conveying when he wrote the book. Who does satan tempt? Those who are trying to live good lives. He may not need to tempt people who don't care to do good or believe in God because they are already going in the wrong direction, the way satan wants them to. So he picks on, with God's permission, those that are trying not to fall. Who do you think satan throws the most obstacles at and in the most cunning way? Those trying to lead a perfect life. Who is the best candidate for this? Jesus our Lord, who, out of love came to earth to live as a human to show us how to live. Yes he was still God the Son, but as the Spirit tells us through scripture, he lived just like us, eating, sleeping, and dealing with the fears and hopes that we all do. He was scared in Gethsemene. He was thirsty while carrying the cross. This is not to say he was weak, but that he showed us how to rely on our trust in God's love to see us through. How can you say Jesus loves us so much if was simple and easy for Him to die for us. I agree that it was a struggle for Him to be the perfect lamb, yet he made all the right choices to become just that. He was tempted in the desert but the temptations must have continued and gotten harder. This makes sense since the last thing satan wants to see is Christ dying for our sins! So why not think that maybe some of the theme of this book/ movie could not have truth to it? When I heard this movie got condemned by the christian community I didn't give it a chance either. But years later a watched the ENTIRE movie to get the FULL theme and I cry thinking of how Jesus may have been offered other things to make him happy, but he gave all that up for all of us, to die for us. Now THAT'S what I call love, sacrificing for others. I also agree with others who remind the viewer that the book/ movie is not trying to change the story of Christ's passion, but just to look at it from another POSSIBLE perspective to see deeper into Jesus' true mission. I know this takes an open mind to accept, but maybe we should pray for a more open mind when we look at a lot of things. The movie was GREAT and is in my collection of Jesus movies which I loan out to people to learn more. PEACE

Last Temptation of Christby Anonymous

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August 20, 2005: I am addressing this to the writter who gave this movie one star. The book by the same name is a NOVEL, in other words, FICTION, "loosely based on the gospels." The author did NOT pretend it to be historical FACT! Did Jesus make crosses for the Romans? I doubt it. The dream sequence while on the cross was a DREAM and therefore also FICTIONAL. Why get so upset about a work of fiction? Mel Gibson's fiasco of violence is ridiculous! The Roman's would NEVER have spent that much time with a little known common criminal roughing him up! They didn't care! A Jew was a Jew was a Jew was a Jew. A few lashes with a whip and punches in the gut, shed some blood and nail 'em up! They hated being in Judea. The gospels were written to justify the execution of the leader of a small movement that would have died out because he was executed as a mere criminal. How better to convince your followers with your OWN set of novels?


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