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515. Frame Rate: The Last Temptation of Christ (Feat. Jason Pargin)
🕑 Added 2022-08-15 13:01:04 +0000 UTC
A Pick the Flick episode of Frame Rate! This means one of our patrons, specifically Zac Schwartz, generously donated through the Pick the Flick tier and got to choose what we watched!
This episode covers the 1988 Scorsese film The Last Temptation of Christ. Jason joins the ‘Raters (™) in discussing the overall quality of the film, its dark history, and what changing old stories says about us.
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Jason Pargin: https://twitter.com/JohnDiesattheEn
Michael Swaim: https://twitter.com/SWAIM_CORP
Abe Epperson: https://twitter.com/AbeTheMighty
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Comments
G MM
In the book Caesar’s Messiah, Joseph Atwill describes the gospels as satire and the historical context that would make this advantageous/may be of interest to that more human-sided pitch that was talked about. Or at least this episode reminded me of this book. True or not, the story it provides/pitches include some interesting ideas about satire, bureaucracy, and financial/historical motivations for some of those things at that time. I think Abe and Swaim could make this sort of film…and get not 2, but 3 lightning bolts of heavenly approval. Maybe. Fair warning though, while it has some interesting ideas in the book, the wiki and especially the Amazon video are kinda nuts by comparison. I guess it’s marketing or something?
Arlo
Scorsese didn’t write Last Temptation, Paul Schrader did
