Deliberate Controversy, a conversation – Part 6: “The Last Temptation of Christ” (1988)
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This is the sixth part of an eight-part series about difficult movies.
Part 1 focused on S. Craig Zahler’s “Dragged Across Concrete”. Part 2 focused on Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris”. Part 3 focused on Don Edmonds’s “Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS”. Part 4 focused on Paul Verhoeven’s “Basic Instinct”. Part 5 focused on Terry Jones’s “Monty Python’s Life of Brian”. Part 7 will focus on Spike Lee’s “Bamboozled”. Part 8 will focus on Dinesh D’Souza’s “2000 Mules”.
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Referenced media:
“The Color of Money” (Martin Scorsese, 1986)“Platoon” (Oliver Stone, 1986)“Clash of the Titans” (Desmond Davis, 1981)“Ben-Hur” (William Wyler, 1959)“The Passion of the Christ” (Mel Gibson, 2004)“Reservoir Dogs” (Quentin Tarantino, 1992)“Monty Python’s Life of Brian” (Terry Jones, 1979)“The Twilight Zone” (Rod Serling, 1959-1964)“Big” (Penny Marshall, 1988)“Bull Durham” (Ron Shelton, 1988)“Red Heat” (Walter Hill, 1988)“Who Framed Roger Rabbit” (Robert Zemeckis, 1988)“Coming to America” (John Landis, 1988)“The Dead Pool” (Buddy Van Horn, 1988)“Die Hard” (John McTiernan, 1988)“Moonlighting” (Glenn Gordon Caron, 1985-1989)“Cocktail” (Roger Donaldson, 1988)"Monkey Shines" (George A. Romero, 1988)“Tucker: The Man and His Dream” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1988)“Young Guns” (Christopher Cain, 1988)“Married to the Mob” (Jonathan Demme, 1988)“The Thin Blue Line” (Error Morris, 1988)“Eight Men Out” (John Sayles, 1988)“Running on Empty” (Sidney Lumet, 1988)“Track 29” (Nicolas Roeg, 1988)“Dead Ringers” (David Cronenberg, 1988)“Gorillas in the Mist” (Michael Apted, 1988)“Patty Hearst” (Paul Schrader, 1988)“Bird” (Clint Eastwood, 1988)“The Accused” (Jonathan Kaplan, 1988)“Taxi Driver” (Martin Scorsese, 1976)“Survivor” (Charlie Parsons, 2000-now)Audio quotation:
“The Last Temptation of Christ” (Martin Scorsese, 1988), including the songs “The Feeling Begins”, “Zaar”, and “It Is Accomplished” written by Peter Gabriel“Reservoir Dogs” (Quentin Tarantino, 1992), including the song “Little Green Bag” (featuring George Baker Selection) written by Jan Visser and Hans Bouwens (1969)“Whoosh Sound effects No copyright” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqEn9icjK0I“What If…?” (A.C. Bradley, 2021-now)“disgusting vomit sound effect” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDLk_eUcn8I
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