FILM Flashcards
BIOPICS
narrative template
most popular (bible…)
vehicle for contemporary issues
artistic license vs coherence of facts
expectation: Jesus of hollywood= nazareth
- subject, costume, lang, setting= ‘true’
creativity vs reverence
TRUTH
GEORGE GUSTEN
“real… because they are believed to be real by many viewers”
ENTERTAIN
M. BRINKMAN- necessity
- overfamiliarity/predictable
- son of god does not have foibles/failings
- X SCORSESE: “most iconoclastic” REINHARTZ
DUTY
REINHARTZ
interpretation also takes place in film
Jews- holocaust
women- feminist movement
REINHARTZ
the last temptation of christ
dream sequence
“we marched on Jerusalem”
civil rights march 1963 Washington
HISTORY AND ANTI-HISTORY
filmmaker (scorsese) aware of the controversies in historical Jesus research
- possible to derive reliable historical info about Jesus from gospel?
historical vs modern
historical: Jesus figure
- identification at a (historical) distance
- identification: greatest emotional impact in film
moder: christ figure
- normal w/flaws
SCORSESE
1988 the last temptation of christ
adaption of novel by Nikos Kazantzakis
frees himself from the jesus film genre (history and anti-history and intro)
allowed to tackle paradox/complexity of christ duality
why?
info
reflect
tradition
Richard Wrightman FOX
Jesus’ fate is perpetually reborn in one culture after another
Dream sequence
disengages history from scripture
- Paul: xian meaningfulness does not depend on the ‘truth’ of the crucifixion
- reminiscent of what Gusten says
duality of Christ
existential dichotomy BRINKMAN
1950s/1960s satre
divine knowledge of the cross
internal struggle
- competition between God and Human HOUTEPEN
BIRD
no direct perception of the divine: human dimension that transcends it
immanent transcendence through the medium of film
