Jesus Just Jesus? -- the Term Paper

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The tempting figure of Satan serves as a much more prominent actor in the film's plot, not simply causing Jesus to suffer for forty days and forty nights in the desert, nor show Jesus all he will have if he abandons his father, but has an abiding visual presence, offering Jesus a view of paradise that is something to be created upon earth, with human physical desires and a human, physical body that Jesus must ultimately give up to fulfill his destiny. This Satan does not tempt Jesus with visions of power, or another dark kingdom as he does in the gospels, but with the tempting nature of human life on earth as good in and of itself -- a theme that is not present in any of the gospels, perhaps because Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John took a less salutary view of earthly life, given the circumstances the Gospel assembler dwelt in, in comparison to our own age.

The film, although it draws from all Gospels, tends to focus on the Gospels of Mark and Matthew, perhaps because these gospels show the most human and active, and this cinematically interesting Jesus.

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But ultimately, the film is very much its own construction and creates its own, new gospel, on modern rather than ancient terms.

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