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Day 39. December 6, 2006
Movement 3. Jesus Christs
Lecture 18. Jesus in the Market Place (Part 2)
In 1973 Jesus Christ Superstar ended with a depiction of an empty cross and, like the 1959 Ben Hur, a lone shepherd. But the ending left viewers with an enigmatic question: Who and where is Jesus? Scandalous cinematic lives of Jesus later in the 1970s and 1980s delved further into these questions in new ways. In 1979 the British comedy troupe Monty Python satirized the entire tradition of cinematic lives of Jesus in the comedy The Life of Brian. A decade later in 1988, director Martin Scorsese provoked political passions about the Christ with his The Last Temptation of Christ in which Jesus the flawed human labors to the realization that he is God's incarnate Son.