A Martin Scorsese classic

                                               
                           
       The last temptations of Christ, title taken from Novel of Nikos Kazantzakis,  

Of the same name , is one of those movies which examines the human and divine nature of Christ , it shows Christ as human as any one of us but he was selected by god , and so he had to prove that he was not among the common mortal’s , but more of a prophet , with this story the movie explores Jesus struggling with his desires of lust , power , fear , hatred ,depression ,death etc. . Directed perfectly by Martin Scorsese, and haunting music by peter Gabriel, the movie takes you in a journey back in time when there was no technology, much of the work was done manually and people were mostly unread. Jerusalem 2000 years ago was a place of prophets declaring their truth with god , angels regularly visiting them , miracles happening every were , people switching sides and confused Romans sending armies Haywire around the city to suppress it . All this made Jerusalem a hot bed of controversies and still today it remains to be so. 

The movie was shot entirely in morocco, the old cast was replaced with a new one, as there were protests regarding the movies controversial story, and the shooting was canceled, only to be started a few years later, with a new cast.

Barbara Hershey as mary Magdalena 

Director Martin Scorsese wanted to make a movie on Jesus for a very long time, but was unable to get a good script, Barbara Hershey gave him the book by Kazantzakis to read and Scorsese found a movie in it. He and Paul Schrader developed the script from novel and the casting was finalized with William Defoe as Christ, Harvey kettle as Judas Iscariot, Barbara Hershey as Mary Magdalene. Shooting started in October 1987 and ended at 25 December of the same year.

William Defoe  as Christ 

It took about 8 months in post-production and the film was released in august 1988. It screened at Venice international festival were it received mixed response. The right wing Christians organizations boycotted the movie, in Paris a group of left wing supporters attacked a theater and burned it , thirteen were seriously injured and two were in critical condition . This attempted violence made all theaters remove the movie , last temptation was banned severely in Turkey , Mexico , Chile and Argentina , as of 2010 the movie is still not publicly screened in phillipness and Singapore . 

Other than controversies the movie was taken as the most well directed and well shot, music given by peter Gabriel made him a well-known music director , Scorsese got the best director award , Hershey got the nomination of best supporting actress . The movie got into the list of top 100 banned movies of all time, and it still remains a subject of controversy.