Sunday, March 31, 2013

Easter Double Feature

TCM had a double dose of Jesus movies for Easter today: King of Kings, and The Greatest Story Ever Told. But I was hoping for them also to include The Last Temptation of Christ and The Passion of the Christ. And then it struck me what an ironic Easter double feature those two movies would make, because both of them together has something to outrage just about everyone. The Last Temptation of Christ seems to make devout Christians, especially Catholics, fuming mad (I don't know why: I think it's well done and contains nothing really objectionable when seen within its proper context), and The Passion of the Christ makes lots of different groups of people furious for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is because it was made by Mel Gibson. And isn't that what Easter is really all about: making everyone mad at each other?