Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of Christ Page #5

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Do it.

[ Continues ]

You're right. It is wine.

[ Drums Pounding ]

[ Chattering ]

[ Jesus ]

Brothers!

My old friends!

Listen to me!

It's me the prophets

preached about.

God talked to me in the desert.

He gave me a secret

and told me to bring it to you.

[ Chuckles ]

Didn't you hear me coming?

I ran here to Nazareth,

where I grew up, to bring you the news.

- The World of God is here now.

- You work miracles.

Make a miracle for us. Make us

believe in you. Otherwise, go away.

The Messiah doesn't need miracles.

He is the miracle.

Now he's here.

Are you ready for me?

I'm here to tear down

everything around you.

And you know what I'm going

to replace it with? Something new.

God.

The World of God.

So take your bread

and give it to the poor.

What difference does it matter

what you own?

You have gold and silver?

It's going to rot.

And that rot is going

to eat away your heart.

All of you. There will be a flood,

and there will be a fire.

Everything will be destroyed. But there

will be a new ark riding on that fire!

And I hold the keys

and I open the door...

and I decide who goes in

and who doesn't!

You're my brothers from Nazareth, and

you're the first I invite on the ark.

Don't wait.

Don't waste your life.

- Come with me.

- You're the son of Mary?

Who are you to tell us about God?

- He made better crosses than speeches.

- [ Laughter ]

Go get somebody from his family

to take him away. He's insane.

- [ People Laughing ]

- What are you laughing at?

Everything you have is going

to burn... soon. Get out now.

Come with me to Jerusalem.

See? This is what happens

when a man doesn't get married.

The semen backs up into his brain.

- [ Laughter ]

- Go home!

You're a demon! You're possessed!

You're a lunatic!

- This is my home!

- You should be ashamed.

- He's a magician.

- Don't touch him.

The Word of God is for the poor!

[ Shouting ]

If I could touch every stone,

if I could breathe on every branch,

they'd get up and follow me.

- So what's wrong with you?

- [ Shouting Continues ]

Come with me to Jerusalem!

Jerusalem is falling!

I feel it. I know it.

[ Jesus ]

You see these people?

They're poor, they're blind,

they're crippled.

They're going to be our army.

We're going to need

better men than this.

God will give them to me.

We're going to build a new Jerusalem.

Son.

Come back with me, please.

Who are you?

- Your mother.

- I don't have a mother.

I don't have any family.

I have a father... in heaven.

Don't say that to me.

Who are you?

I mean, really.

Who are you?

- [ Kisses Head ]

- [ Sobbing ]

Mary... why are you crying?

Didn't you see them?

[ Sobbing Continues ]

What?

When he spoke to you, there were

thousands of blue wings behind him.

- I swear to you, Mary,

there were armies of angels.

- [ Shudders ]

- There were?

- Thousands.

I'd be happier if there weren't.

[ Chanting, Wailing ]

When was he buried?

Three days ago.

Roll away the stone.

[ Chanting, Wailing Continue ]

[ Coughing ]

[ Whispering ]

Lazarus.

Lazarus.

[ Whispering ]

In the name of the prophets,

in the name of Jeremiah

and my father,

in the name

of the Most Holy God,

I call you here.

I call you here!

[ Whispering ]

Lazarus.

[ Whispering ]

Lazarus.

[ Gasping, Panting ]

[ People Gasping ]

[ Grunting ]

[ Panting ]

Adonai.

God, help me.

[ Native, People Chanting ]

[ People Chattering ]

[ Goat Bleating ]

[ Whining ]

We came here to pray.

Look at this.

The moneychangers?

It's for the temple tax, for the feast.

I know.

I know.

- How's the exchange today?

- Fair. At this stall,

it's always fair.

- Making a good profit?

- Fair.

[ People Shouting ]

[ Shouting ]

This is my father's house!

It's a place of worship!

Not a market!

Nazarene, what are you doing?

- [ Shouting Stops ]

- What are you doing?

God doesn't need a palace!

He doesn't need cypress trees or dead

animals! He doesn't need shekles!

You expect people to pay the tax

with Roman coins?

They have images

of false gods on them.

You want pagan gods in the temple?

All foreign coins have to be

exchanged for shekles.

- That is the law.

- I'm throwing away the law.

- I have a new law and a new hope.

- What?

Has God changed his mind

about the old law?

No. No, He just thinks our hearts

are ready to hold more, that's all.

This chaos is your new law.

How can you presume--

How can I presume? Because

I'm the end of the old law and

the beginning of the new one!

- Watch what you're saying.

- Maybe we should go.

When I say "l", rabbi,

I'm saying God.

That's blasphemy.

Didn't they tell you?

I'm the saint of blasphemy.

Don't make any mistakes!

I didn't come here to bring peace.

I came to bring a sword.

- Talking like that will get you killed.

- Me killed?

Listen to me. This temple will be

destroyed in three days.

Torn down to the ground! There won't

be one stone left to build with!

You think God belongs

only to you? He doesn't.

God's an immortal spirit

who belongs to everybody!

To the whole world!

You think you're special?

God is not an Israelite!

[ Crowd Chattering ]

[ Shouting, Arguing ]

- Magician, heal me.

- Cure us. Make us rich.

Heal me. Do a miracle.

You want me to enter the world

of God crippled like this?

Don't touch me!

You're filled with hate!

Get away! God won't help you.

- You cure us, or you won't

leave this city alive.

- [ Grunting ]

You don't make demands on God!

[ Shouting Continues ]

Judas, what are you doing with

this magician? You had orders

to kill him, and you haven't.

Now he acts like a prophet,

and you follow him.

[ Panting ]

Did you hear what

he said back there, Saul?

Yes, I heard him.

We took an oath against Rome.

I don't see anything

against Rome around here?

All I see are Jews against Jews.

Then you're not listening.

[ Saul ]

Lazarus.

Lazarus!

How do you feel?

I like the light.

Well, what was it like?

Which is better, death or life?

I was a little surprised.

There wasn't that much difference.

Give me your hand.

[ Judas ]

I'm not surprised. How could

they let Lazarus live?

He was proof of your greatest

miracle. Now he's gone.

That's what the zealots want;

their revolution, not yours.

- Do you want to go back to them?

- No.

You're the one I follow.

You are the strongest, aren't you?

Of all my friends,

you're the strongest.

Judas, my brother,

I have something to tell you.

I have a terrible secret from God.

- You know why I came to Jerusalem?

- Yes.

This is where the revolution's

going to begin.

Last night, Isaiah came to me.

He had a prophecy.

I saw it written.

It said,

"He has borne our faults;

he was wounded

for our transgressions,

yet he opened not his mouth.

despised and rejected by all,

he went forward without resisting

like a lamb led to the slaughter. "

Mmm.

I don't understand.

[ Chuckles ]

Judas, I am the lamb.

- I'm the one who's going to die.

- Die?

- You mean you're not the Messiah?

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