Mary (2005)
Actors:
Roberto Ornaro (miscellaneous crew),
Patrizio Marone (editor),
Stefania Rocca (actress),
Heather Graham (actress),
Abel Ferrara (director),
Abel Ferrara (writer),
Marion Cotillard (actress),
Juliette Binoche (actress),
Forest Whitaker (actor),
Matthew Modine (actor),
Matthew Modine (actor),
Juliette Binoche (actress),
Elio Germano (actor),
Luca Lionello (actor),
Roberto Penna (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Three characters linked by the mythical Maria Maddalena - Mary Magdalene... Tony Childress, an infamous, egotistical and obsessive actor/director is playing the lead role of Jesus in his controversial new film THIS IS MY BLOOD. When the shoot wraps, Marie Palesi, his lead actress, is left alone in Jerusalem, drained, empty. 'Selfless'. Into the void within her is poured the spirit of Mary Magdalene, and Marie embarks on a profound journey towards enlightenment. Meanwhile, in New York City, tv journalist Ted Younger begins his own quest for spiritual truth through his documentary about the life of Christ. When the premiere of Tony's film becomes the target of bomb threats by the vengeful religious Right, the lives and paths of these three characters come dramatically together.
Keywords: actress, adultery, affair, birth, bomb, bomb-threat, character-name-in-title, christian, faith, film-director
Genres:
Drama,
Thriller,
Taglines: It takes courage to walk in the truth.
Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
Actors:
Josh Mostel (actor),
Robert Iscove (miscellaneous crew),
Melvyn Bragg (writer),
Paul Thomas (actor),
Norman Jewison (writer),
Antony Gibbs (editor),
Angela Allen (miscellaneous crew),
Tim Rice (writer),
Yvonne Blake (costume designer),
Norman Jewison (director),
Norman Jewison (producer),
Barry Dennen (actor),
Patrick J. Palmer (producer),
Quinn Donoghue (miscellaneous crew),
Robert Stigwood (producer),
Plot: Based on a concept album project written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, and the subsequent long-running Broadway performance, this film tells the story of the final 6 days in the life of Jesus Christ through the troubled eyes of Judas Iscariot. Too often mis-labeled a musical, this film is a "rock opera." There are no spoken lines, everything is sung.
Keywords: 1st-century, anachronism, ancient-rome, based-on-album, based-on-stage-musical, betrayal, character-name-in-title, christian, christianity, crucifixion
Genres:
Drama,
History,
Musical,
Taglines: and now the film... And now, the movie......
Quotes:
Caiaphas: Fools! You have no perception! The stakes we are gambling are terribly high. We must crush him completely! So like John before him, this Jesus must die!
Judas: Hey woman, your fine ointment, brand-new and expensive, should have been saved for the poor. Why has it been wasted? We could've raised maybe 300 silver pieces or more. People who are hungry, people who are starving, they matter more than your feet and hair.
Judas: All your followers are blind, too much heaven on their minds.
Judas: I have no thought at all about my own reward, I really didn't come here on my own accord. Just don't say I'm damned for all time.
Caiaphas: One thing I'll say for him, Jesus is cool.
Pontius Pilate: Then you are a king.::Jesus: It's you that say I am. I look for truth, and find that I get damned.::Pontius Pilate: And what is 'truth'? Is truth unchanging law? We both have truths. Are mine the same as yours?
Caiaphas: We need a more permanent solution to our problem...
Judas: Every time I look at you I don't understand why you let the things you did get so out of hand? You'd've managed better if you'd had a plan. Why'd you choose such a backwards time in such a strange land? If you'd come today you would've reached a whole nation. Israel in 4 B.C. had no mass communication.
Pontius Pilate: Don't let me stop your great self-destruction. Die if you want to you misguided martyr. I wash my hands of your demolition. Die if you want to you innocent puppet.
Annas: He's just another scripture thumping hack from Galilee.::Caiaphas: The difference is they call him king, the difference frightens me.