Movies about Jesus Christ

[M.10rda]

Lotta' studio pics in the mid-20th were somehow Jesus-adjacent. I suppose Christian films or Christian-related films were good box office. THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII rather aggressively manipulated history to line up with Christ's trial before Pilate. I also remember thinking SPARTACUS (which I watched about 9 months back) was going out of its way to make Christian allusions, even though it predates the life of Jesus by a few decades. The Bible = $$$. 

[Trevor]

I've been meaning to watch the Klaus Kinski insane Jesus inspired thing he did.

I didn't think there were any recordings of that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB84Q4eYMl8

[Rev. Powell]

I've been meaning to watch the Klaus Kinski insane Jesus inspired thing he did.

I didn't think there were any recordings of that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB84Q4eYMl8

Wow!

[lester1/2jr]

saved

[Dr. Whom]

Lotta' studio pics in the mid-20th were somehow Jesus-adjacent. I suppose Christian films or Christian-related films were good box office. THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII rather aggressively manipulated history to line up with Christ's trial before Pilate. I also remember thinking SPARTACUS (which I watched about 9 months back) was going out of its way to make Christian allusions, even though it predates the life of Jesus by a few decades. The Bible = $$$. 

The way I see it, it is very much something like the way modern movies/series project contemporary ideas about  gender and diversity onto the past. Earlier generations were invested in the fate of the Christians in the Roman Empire, so if you wanted to vibe with your audience, you had to shoehorn in Christian themes. After all, one thing that was generally known about the Romans was that they persecuted Christians. This idea predates movies and was a recurrent theme in 19C depictions of the period, which of course directly inspired the Hollywood epics.