University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, August 24, 1988
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Tempting question: to see or not to see
"Whaddya think?" Slats Grobnik asked. "Should we go see it?"
See what?
"You know, that movie about Jesus that's got everybody foaming at the mouth."
Ah, you mean "The Last Temptation of Christ."
"That is it. You wanna go?"
Well, it would be interesting to see what the flap is all about. Do you want to go?
"I dunno. I like happy endings, but from what I read, it sounds like a downer."
Well, it's hard to have a happy ending with a crucifixion.
"No, it can be done. I saw a Bible movie on the late show that finished OK.
"Victor Mature was a gladiator. He started out as a mean guy, but after the crucifixion he turned into a good guy, although he still looked like a mope, but that's the way Victor Mature always looked.
"I was falling asleep near the end, but I think he turned in his sword and armor for a burial war-drobe, and that made him holy. Why is it that if you're going to be bolt you get to wear clothes that
I don't know, but that was your standard Hollywood Bible film. I gather that "The Last Temptation is something quite different."
Mike Royko
On 'Last Temptation of Christ'
"Yea, I don't remember any Catholic cardinals or Jerry Falwell or anybody getting mad about me," she said. "I know of old movies where there would be a lot of clouds and lightning around the sky, and then you hear
"Except it wasn't God, it was some guy with a deep radio-announceer voice. What he said was who he guy who did soap commercials played God?"
Because in "The Lest Temptation of Christ," Jesus is portrayed as someone with human frailties, subject to the same temptations as the
"Like what? They didn't have racetracks in those days."
Well, there is a scene in which he has a dream that He gets married. "I'll do梦 about it! What's
urthrashed
wrong? are you?
It's only if you
actually get married when you're
wide awake that you have troubles."
Yes, but in the movie He also dreams about having sex, and some
of it is shown on the screen
"Huh. at my age, I dream about having sex, too, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to see myself doing it on a movie screen."
The point is that Jesus is portered as having self-doubts and character flaws, and as not being sure of his own divinity.
"Sort of like a split personality?"
From what I have read, yes
"I can see where that could be a problem. In those days, they didn't have shrieks. They didn't have affections and couldn't have afforded it on a carpenter's paycheck. Especially before they got unit scale. So, we are going to go
I don't know. There probably will be pickets at the theater. People are really angry. Fundamentalists, religious extremists. Christianity is up in arms.
"That doesn't make sense. It's just a movie, some pictures on a screen with a soundtrack. If they were real people I would home, read the Bible and not go to it."
No. they believe that it is blasphemous, an insult to Christ and morally unacceptable, and that it binds them down the faith of those who do see it.
see it."
"He used to do stuff like that, turn somebody into salt, flooding the whole world, getting a guy swallowed by a big fish.
"I don't understand that kind of thinking. If the movie is so terrible, then why didn't Git hit the studio with a blot of lightning?
"So if He let them make the movie, he can't be too upset about it, right?" I mean, it wouldn't have even taken a lightning bolt to stop them. A stagehand strike would have done it."
Only the theologians can answer your questions, and I'm not sure about them, because they can't agree on the movie.
"Well, I don't get it. Why didn't all those people get mad when George Burns played God? I mean, if they don't like Jesus having weird dreams, what about GD smoking a cigar and doing parlor tricks?"
George Burns playing God was meant to be funny.
"Well, they foiled me. Considering the shape the world is in, I thought it was a documentary."
It was.
Sure, that was the whole idea:
God as a stand-up comic.
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