Vacation Dog Tied To Bumper – Another excerpt from the University Archives, this time from The Last Temptation of Christ on how Jesus fits in with Scorsese’s other familiar protagonists. Based on the observations of Harlan Jacobson.
Harlan Jacobson wrote in a 1988 review: “In the rush to pay more attention to Martin Scorsese’s search for the divine in The Last Temptation of Christ when he is passionate, the first question Christ asks in Nico’s novels and films Kazantzakis loses: He is neither human nor divine, but mad.”
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Jacobson’s review tries to shift the discussion of the controversial film away from the issues of scandal and see the film’s protagonist as a classic Scorsese character. He says, “Scorsese’s Christ, the central figure in his canon, is a little weasel on the edge, typical Italian crazy and completely crazy. He is the bad roads John, the innocent boy and the incompetent Jack. In “The Bull enraged,” America tries to escape the emptiness of success.”
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Jacobson’s argument is not difficult to accept. After using Christ for many of his previous screen roles, it’s no surprise that Scorsese created his own Jesus on film. Christ symbolism is often very evident in Scorsese’s films, especially in the three cited by Jacobson, and even in a work like Bertha in the Boxcar. It seems only natural that Scorsese’s Christ has so much in common with his former screen double. Jacobson could have done this by swapping Charlie for Johnny Boy (who, despite his apparent “disability,” was too comfortable in his own identity to draw strong comparisons to Scorsese’s Jesus) to refine his argument, but these three films deliver. The perfect basis for comparison: Jake LaMotta, Travis Bickle and (replaced) Charlie bring Jesus to life.
Like Jack and Charlie, Jesus realized his sin and continually tried to repent. He said to Jeroboam: “I’m a liar, a liar, I’m afraid of everything, I’ll never tell the truth – I dare not. When I see a woman I blush, I love her, but I don’t “Don’t love her – for God’s sake it makes me proud.” , then my pride destroys Magdalena, I did not steal, I did not fight, I did not kill – but because I Magdalena hated God and asked for forgiveness, he believed that it was his fault told her.
Jesus sought redemption through self-punishment. In a voiceover, he explains how he tried to get rid of the voices in his head: “At first I fasted for three months. I wiped before I went to sleep. At first it worked. Then the pain came back and then the voices. told the Romans to make crosses and being led to the place where he was crucified, suffering the blasphemy of other Jews, Judas threw down a cross and shouted: “You are a Jew who kills Jews! You are a coward! How will you pay for your sins?” The Jews stone him, Mary Magdalene spits in his face, but he continues. He endures the rites of punishment that he personally describes, as Charlie does when he holds his hand over the flame, or as Jack allows his opponent to beat him in the ring.
Like Charlie and Jack, Jesus suffers a series of punishments, culminating in a “great punishment” that marks the triumph of his redemption (for Charlie, the final punishment is to endure Johnny Boy’s recklessness; for Jack, it is the wretched actor of the scene where he allows himself to be beaten in a boxing ring in a dark nightclub). After struggling with the various courses of action that were suggested to him (and enduring the mockery and apparent defeats that resulted, such as declaring his divinity to the Nazarenes or his attack on the Temple after a failed attack), Jesus understood and accepted the fact that he must be crucified. However, unlike Charlie and Jack, whose decisions reveal that they are not yet redeemed and will be in a symbolic hell (Charlie’s street, Jack’s nightclub), Jesus is redeemed. The “visions” he experienced on the cross convinced him that his works were worthy and that he was redeemed and destined for heaven as the Son of God. (If this sequence was not an illusion, he was absolutely convinced of his divinity, and years later, Almighty God, forgiving his previous failures, called him back to the cross.)
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If Jesus’ desire to repent is mirrored in Charlie and Jack, his confused search for the right course of action is captured in Travis Pickle. Both Travis and Jesus play or abandon different roles in their search for life’s purpose. The roles they tried were very similar. Travis tries to be romantic at first, but fails to impress Betsy. He abandons this tendency (“love”) to a more violent one and becomes a political assassin who tries to kill Ballantine. But after he fails, he decides to become a rescue hero and becomes the suicidal “savior” of young Iris. Likewise, Jesus began with a program of love. He prevented the mob from killing Mary Magdalene – cf. Travis told Betsy, “They can’t touch her” — and told them to “love each other.” When he returned from the desert the second time, the desert was to Jesus what the Times Square Fleaback was to Travis: an isolated retreat where he spent a lot of time alone and gained new “vision” – he chose a very different approach. “I have not invited you to a feast,” he told the apostles. “I am calling you to a war,” he then said to the Nazarenes, “and there will be flood and fire; and also, Travis, “One day, there will be a real heavy rain, come and wash all dirt from the streets.” After the failed attack on the temple, Jesus changed course: He would willingly be crucified to save humanity Note before trying to kill Ballantine – “By the time you read this, I’ll be dead ” – and his suicidal gesture after the final carnage, a blow that reunites Iris with her parents both characters experience the same love, struggle and sacrifice.
Like Travis, Jesus said he wanted to be “like other people.” His confession to Jeroboam reveals his love of women, theft, fighting and murder. He further expressed his desire to become a layman for the sisters of Lazarus. “You didn’t miss that?” she asked. “Is there a home, a real life?” replied, “I admit, I love her, but I’ll never have her. He ‘liked’ her when they were kids.”
However, like Travis, like Charlie and Jack, Jesus can enter “normal life” only through his reproduction as a figure. For Jesus, this reappearance came in the form of his visions on the cross of married life with Mary Magdalene and the sisters of Lazarus. For Travis, ordinary life is depicted on television shows and on greeting cards. Charlie and Jack can only be returned to normal through home movies (in Mean Streets they appear in the opening credits of the film and in Raging Bull they enter the ring with Jack’s winning set).
Harlan Jacobson has rightly been labeled Scorsese’s Jesus as Scorsese’s main character. Confession of personal sin, the desire for personally defined repentance, and the struggle to decide the right course of action are characteristics of many of Scorsese’s characters, and Jesus fits the bill.
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