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The Last Temptation of Christ.
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Within the last few decades, pop culture has increasingly dominated the different religious view points on a variety of entertainment venues, film being the most prominent in our culture today. In 1988 director, Martin Scorsese and MCA/Universal released one of the most religiously offensives movies to the largest religious community in the United States, The Last Temptation of Christ. Scorsese's first attempt to make a film of the highly controversial The Last Temptation of Christ, written by Nikos Kazantzakis, was an incredibly difficult journey. It was 1983; Michael Eisner, Barry Diller, and Jeff Katzenberg reigned at Paramount; and the country was in the midst of the more conservative Reagan era. Scorsese had known since he was a child that he wanted to make a film about Jesus, and when he found The Last Temptation of Christ he knew he could fulfill his dream. In 1972, Barbara Hershey (Mary Magdalene)...
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