And even when you line up 100 women and show them that they only have two breasts, they still say that women have three breasts because they were told it in a dream. They can say to you, for instance, that women have three breasts. But once you get into a faith-driven belief system there's not much you can do.
"And though there are many things wrong with Calvinism, you are at least encouraged to argue about things. "I was raised as a Calvinist, which is doctrine driven," he says. The problem, one suspects, is that Gibson is faith-driven and Schrader is not. But he didn't follow up on that because I'm sure he was one of those people who subscribed to the Vatican's view of Last Temptation." I told him that it comes with the territory: you make a film about this subject matter, people are going to take it very personally. "It was at the time he was taking a lot of flak, and I mentioned what had happened with us and Last Temptation. On the face of it he and Gibson have a lot in common.Īs it happened, Schrader was working in an adjacent studio in Rome when Gibson was shooting The Passion of the Christ, and would often drop by to visit. The Vatican publicly condemned the film while many Christians were outraged by a fantasy scene which showed Jesus (played by Willem Dafoe) having sex with Mary Magdalene. Schrader's adaptation of The Last Temptation of Christ provoked a storm of controversy ahead of its release in 1988. It reminds me more of Shiites than it does of Episcopalians." The Gospel stories too have a precedent on the big screen, most notably in Mel Gibsons 'The Passion of the Christ.' It may be the only movie ever made in Aramaic and it has grossed more than 600. It's a kind of primitive religion that I don't want to return to. On the film as a whole, he says: "I'm just troubled by it. That said, Schrader notes that Gibson casts the Jewish priest Caiphus as "a traditional Shylock-looking guy, which is a problem." So the Pharisees were made to seem much worse than they were and Pilate was shown to be more agonised." They were written 30-40 years after the fact to curry favour with the Romans and separate the Christians from the Jews. "The Gospels were rigged for political reasons from the get-go. On the question of whether the film is anti-semitic, Schrader points out that the problem may be largely to do with the Gospels themselves. My guess is that Mel has a problem with the Enlightenment because his film really does go back to the visceral blood cult origins of Christianity, and the fervour it's created is more akin to a Gospel tent meeting than it is to a motion picture." For the passions of Jesus Christ, see Passion (Christianity). "Last Temptation was a very humanistic film in that it sees Christ's struggle as a human struggle," Schrader told the Guardian. In London to attend the Orange Word Screenwriters season, writer-director Paul Schrader said that while he admired Mel Gibson's movie as "terrific film-making", its message left him troubled. The writer of Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ has described The Passion of the Christ as "medieval" and says that the old school brand of religion it preaches reminds him of Shiites.
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