“Scorsese And Spiritualism, MacH II”
By Raymond Benson
In 1988, filmmaker Martin Scorsese unleashed the mesmerizing—and undeservedly controversial—The Last Temptation of Christ. It revealed a side of the director that one would call “spiritual,” which to many was something of a surprise. After all, this was the guy who had given us Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, and Raging Bull.
Nine years later, Scorsese presented yet another entry into what now could be called his “Spiritualism Trilogy,” i.e., three movies that deal with crises of faith. This one was Kundun, the epic biopic about the life of the Dalai Lama. (The third piece in the trilogy, Silence, appeared nineteen years after that, in 2016.)
It was the late screenwriter Melissa Mathison who apparently got Scorsese interested in doing a picture about the Dalai Lama, whom the other lamas addressed as “Kundun.” Mathison had become friendly with the real exiled Dalai...
By Raymond Benson
In 1988, filmmaker Martin Scorsese unleashed the mesmerizing—and undeservedly controversial—The Last Temptation of Christ. It revealed a side of the director that one would call “spiritual,” which to many was something of a surprise. After all, this was the guy who had given us Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, and Raging Bull.
Nine years later, Scorsese presented yet another entry into what now could be called his “Spiritualism Trilogy,” i.e., three movies that deal with crises of faith. This one was Kundun, the epic biopic about the life of the Dalai Lama. (The third piece in the trilogy, Silence, appeared nineteen years after that, in 2016.)
It was the late screenwriter Melissa Mathison who apparently got Scorsese interested in doing a picture about the Dalai Lama, whom the other lamas addressed as “Kundun.” Mathison had become friendly with the real exiled Dalai...
- 11/4/2019
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