I haven't seen this movie yet, so I'll restrict my comments to the Reeve versions and their relation to Jeebus.
I'm wondering if we were to compare the American misconceptions of Jesus to the kind of selfless limited almost-omnipotence of Superman, would we see not Jesus, but "Jesus of suburbia" (with a nod to Green Day)? My other thoughts would be to compare Aslan from Narnia to these images and stories.
I mean, really--Jesus of scripture really didn't pull off hugely crazy miracles. All of them can be easily reinterpreted as exaggerated commonplace events, or hyperbole/metaphor of significant but reasonably imaginable events. Superman and Aslan were simply much more powerful than Jesus ever was, on a steady-state basis, so they are exaggerations of exaggerations and exaggerations of the wrong aspects of the gospel story.
Of course, The Passion of the Christ is a movie about the most uninteresting three hours of the life of Jesus, also an exaggeration of an exaggeration, and an exaggeration of the wrong aspects of the gospel story.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2006-07-12 08:52 pm (UTC)I'm wondering if we were to compare the American misconceptions of Jesus to the kind of selfless limited almost-omnipotence of Superman, would we see not Jesus, but "Jesus of suburbia" (with a nod to Green Day)? My other thoughts would be to compare Aslan from Narnia to these images and stories.
I mean, really--Jesus of scripture really didn't pull off hugely crazy miracles. All of them can be easily reinterpreted as exaggerated commonplace events, or hyperbole/metaphor of significant but reasonably imaginable events. Superman and Aslan were simply much more powerful than Jesus ever was, on a steady-state basis, so they are exaggerations of exaggerations and exaggerations of the wrong aspects of the gospel story.
Of course, The Passion of the Christ is a movie about the most uninteresting three hours of the life of Jesus, also an exaggeration of an exaggeration, and an exaggeration of the wrong aspects of the gospel story.