Word: unorthodox
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...Nothing unorthodox there, strictly speaking. As both fully human and fully divine, Jesus is viewed in Christian theology as free of sin but subject to all temptations, including sexual ones. Following Kazantzakis, however, Scorsese presents the early Jesus as a weak and dithering collaborator who builds crosses used by the Romans to execute Jewish rebels. Later he becomes the wild-eyed guru to a band of ragged followers but remains apprehensive and fundamentally confused about his message and his mission. He persuades Judas, his best friend, to betray him to fulfill God's plan. During the reverie on the Cross...
...bygone centuries, an unorthodox vision like Martin Scorsese's might have prompted heresy trials and burnings at the stake. Perhaps even a quick crusade mounted by ragtag armies. In the summer of 1988, the preferred methods of resistance are picket lines, economic boycotts and angry appearances on talk shows. If the furor surrounding Scorsese's Last Temptation of Christ proves one thing, it is that in any era, seismic emotions are involved when people probe the nature of the man who is worshiped as God by well over a billion souls...
...attempt by modern scholars to ferret out the real, historical Nazarene from the supposedly embellished accounts in the Bible -- a process known as the historical-critical method, or "higher criticism" -- has resulted in some rather unorthodox notions. A current sampling...
...Magdalene as the former girlfriend who still tempts the Saviour and haunts his fantasies. John the Baptist as the center of a hysterical cult. And Jesus himself as a reluctant leader, subject to paranoid visions, uncertain if he is heeding the call of God or Satan. These are the unorthodox interpretations to be found in The Last Temptation of Christ, a new film directed by Martin Scorsese and based on the 1955 Nikos Kazantzakis novel...
...songs, delivered in a winsome, not entirely wholesome voice, have a strange after-echo that makes them kissing cousins to the work of Lyle Lovett, 30, who has sung occasional harmony with Griffith but has more in common with an unorthodox satirist like Randy Newman. "I've never been to jail, never been arrested, and I don't do drugs at all," says Lovett, with no apparent regret. "It wouldn't work for me. But I do what I want with my music, so I get away with murder there." Raised in a Lutheran family outside Houston, Lovett, whose gentle...