Saw Last Temptation tonight. Aside from usual superlatives, Bowie perfect as Pilate. An English schoolmaster, an exhausted bureaucrat bred more posh than his position, no feelings for anything but his horses..
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“That’s too bad, because it means you’re just another Jewish politician “ is maybe the most astonishing line I’ve ever heard in a movie. Schrader, via Bowie. Unforgettable.
Well, if you recall a tall red head in a blue coat, go with the knowledge that you helped him fine tune a Richard Nixon impression that is a hit at family gatherings
It’s such a Jesuit film it may as well have been made by one. I remembered the protests in ‘89 & thought of Francis inviting Scorsese to Rome, tacitly endorsing his new Jesus project…
I am *dying* to know what Scorsese is going to do with that. A guy who meditates on the wages of sin like Scorsese does not lack for things to talk about in the New Testament
I love his attitude. "Look man, come on. Help me out here. No? Alright, if that's the way you wanna do it, fine." Much as I adore the frantic DIE IF YOU WANT TO Pilate from Jesus Christ Superstar, Bowie's version is very haunting to me.
I read the novel after seeing the movie. Kazantzakis reimagined Jesus living among Greek peasants, and Scorsese reimagined him living among bickering New Yorkers.
(1/x) Many years ago, I went to a screening of Last Temptation at the Castro Theatre in SF.
As it doesn’t (or at least didn’t at the time) get screened much, the line to get into the theatre was quite long and snaked down the block past several storefronts and bars.
At one point in line I’m standing in front of a bar with a large open window. The window has seating looking out into the street and there’s a man sitting there with a drink and a small bowl of nuts.
The line had stalled a bit, and he starts chatting me up- asks me what the line is for.
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As it doesn’t (or at least didn’t at the time) get screened much, the line to get into the theatre was quite long and snaked down the block past several storefronts and bars.
The line had stalled a bit, and he starts chatting me up- asks me what the line is for.
“Oh, yeah, which one?”
I respond, “The Last Temptation of Christ”
“Oh… You know, he dies at the end.”
I smile.
“Peanut?”