Word: portray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What else were Evangelical Christians to think when the film's director announced he would portray Jesus as a gentle, simple man, rather than God, and said he would be destroying myths? Believe me, them's fightin' words!-especially for Christians who revere Jesus' deity as well as his humanity...
...exhibit shows how sculpture created from very simple materials can portray complex ideas, he said, adding that the large sculpture cost only...
When Cecil B. DeMille undertook to portray Jesus in his 1927 film King of Kings, he established a style of reverential spectacle that endured for decades in such religious pageants as Ben-Hur, The Robe, the remake of King of Kings, and The Greatest Story Ever Told. In recent years the interpretations have become broader. Jesus was a fierce champion of the oppressed in The Gospel According to St. Matthew, a crucified clown in Godspell, a befuddled mystic in Jesus Christ Superstar, a well-intentioned charlatan in The Passover Plot. A Danish producer is even trying to turn...
...Baeck Rabbinical College of London and the Koranic School at Meknes, Morocco. But the film nonetheless came under ideological fire from Protestant right-wingers, led by Bob Jones III, president of South Carolina's Bob Jones University. Zeffirelli had told an interviewer from Modern Screen that he would portray Jesus as "an ordinary man-gentle, fragile, simple," and Jones leaped to the conclusion that the portrayal would deny Christ's divine nature. Without seeing the film, he denounced it as "blasphemy." Others picked up the cry, and soon 18,000 angry letters descended on General Motors, which...
...from the grave and appears bodily to his disciples. Nor does the film shy away from the miracles. It unquestioningly depicts the feeding of the 5,000, the raising of Lazarus and several healings. It does avoid some miracles, e.g., the walking on water, that would be difficult to portray realistically. At the trial before the Sanhedrin, the High Priest Caiaphas asks Jesus if he is indeed "the Messiah, the Son of the Living God." Jesus replies flatly, "I am," an act of blasphemy that leads directly to his execution. Zeffirelli could have used Christ's indirect answer...