The Thin Place

The Thin Place


Episode #30: On Finally Watching The Last Temptation of Christ

February 20, 2013

Todd and Ken discuss Martin Scorsese's (in)famous imagination of the life of Jesus. Is it really blasphemous? Is it any good? Do you have to watch a movie to be able to boycott it? And how do you pronounce "Nikos Kazantzakis"?

SHOW NOTES:

0:00 - The infamous production history--or why Ken saw Die Hard on his honeymoon.

6:00 - Responses today.

10:56 - Whose fault was it?: The script.

15:04 - Who is this Jesus, exactly?

19:29 - Film vs. Novel: Problems with abstraction.

33:00 - Well, how should Christians respond?

43:46 - What was Scorsese's intent?

47:00 - Other Jesus movies.

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