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Roman | Christianity
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Best Director | 1989 | Martin
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture | 1989 | Barbara
Best Original Score Motion Picture | 1989 | Peter
Best Album of Original Instrumental Background Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television | 1990 | Peter
Most Divine Miracle in a Movie Milagro ms Divino en una Pelcula | 2004 | Willem
Worst Supporting Actor | 1989 | Harvey
Best Director | 1988 | Martin
Budget 7,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 8,400,000 USD
The script for this film sat in the office of Martin Scorsese's lawyer for at least five years prior to being made. Although Scorsese thought the film could be brilliant, he was concerned how the public might respond to the finished film. His lawyer agreed the script was brilliant and very "brave", but advised against making the movie, because he did not think moviegoers were ready for such a story.
Universal Pictures agreed to produce the film if Scorsese then did a commercial film. That was Cape Fear (1991).
Martin Scorsese banned smoking from the set, both because he's a severe asthmatic, and to avoid any photographs being taken of actors and actresses playing Biblical characters, primarily Willem Dafoe, who smoked at the time, with cigarettes hanging out of their mouths.
Willem Dafoe could not see for three days, because he got too many eye drops to dilate the pupils of his eyes in bright sunlight to achieve a superhuman effect.
Director Martin Scorsese first read Nikos Kazantzakis's novel "The Last Temptation of Christ", after being given a copy by Barbara Hershey, while he was directing her in Boxcar Bertha (1972), his second feature film. When she read in a trade paper many years later that Scorsese was finally getting the opportunity to direct a film adaptation, she begged him to let her play the role of Mary Magdalene. To make sure she didn't feel that he was giving her the part as a favor for having recommended the book, he made her audition.
"Jesus: You think God belongs only to you? He doesn't. God is an immortal spirit who belongs to everybody, to the whole world. You think you're special? God is not an Israelite!"
"Jesus: If I was a woodcutter, I'd cut. If I was a fire, I'd burn. But I'm a heart and I love. That's the only thing I can do."
