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The film depicts the life of Jesus Christ and his struggle with various forms of temptation including fear, doubt, depression, reluctance, and lust. The book and the film depict Christ being tempted by imagining himself engaged in sexual activities, which caused outrage from certain Christian groups, claiming the work as blasphemy.
The Many Faces of Jesus, alternately The Sex Life of Jesus or The Love Affairs of Jesus, [a] is a screenplay and abandoned film by Danish writer and director Jens Jørgen Thorsen, which pornographically depicts Jesus engaged in homosexual and heterosexual sex acts, as well as drunkenness and robbery.
The film begins with an epigraph from the Fourth Song of the Suffering Servant from Isaiah. [15] In the opening scene set in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus crushes a serpent's head in direct visual allusion to Genesis 3:15. [16] Throughout the film, Jesus quotes from the Psalms, beyond the instances recorded in the New Testament.
A new movie about the life of Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, is sparking debate among viewers and religious scholars alike. “Mary,” a Biblical epic streaming now on Netflix, tells the story ...
THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: The ‘Cheers’ star is a born-again Christian and plays a controversial real-life pastor in new film ‘Jesus Revolution’. He talks to Louis Chilton about faith, loss ...
Prior to filming, Gibson reportedly warned Caviezel that playing Jesus in his controversial film could hurt his career. In 2011, he stated that good roles had been hard to come by since, but this movie, in particular, the role of Jesus Christ was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Bible and Cinema: Fifty Key Films. De Gruyter. ISBN 978-1-61451-561-6. Burnette-Bletsch, Rhonda (2013). The Bible in Motion. A Handbook of the Bible and Its Reception in Film. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415677202. Baugh, Lloyd (1997). Imaging the Divine: Jesus and Christ-figures in Film. Sheed & Ward. ISBN 1556128630
A controversial new drama eight years in the making has become a surprise hit at the box office. On Independence Day (4 July) in the US, a brand new movie starring The Passion of the Christ star ...
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