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Godspell: A Musical Based on the Gospel According to St. Matthew (1973)
No One Else Has Mentioned
The end of the movie! A very subtle but important truth has been omitted. Jesus is NEVER shown as risen from the dead! His followers prance off into the sunset with his dead body, and that is the end of things.
This would make the whole movie (although I had initially liked it very much) just an exercise in spiritual futility. Their portrayal would make Jesus just a good teacher and a good man, but it doesn't claim Him as a divine Savior, the Holy Son of God, who rose from the dead in three days. At first I thought I might be in error, so I turned to the gospel of Matthew, and sure enough, at the end, Jesus does rise from the dead. So I have to take what I see in the movie as their willful and wrongful interpretation of scripture.
This movie is not for me, as it was performed. It takes more of a humanistic world view of Jesus, although it quotes Jesus at great length.
The Cross and the Switchblade (1970)
Must Have Been A Low Budget Movie
The Cross and the Switchblade was a huge, total disappointment. Whoever directed it should have been shot, sigh. The crazy people put the setting in the LATE 60's and made the kids all look like chubby little hippies with flowers in their hair. WRONG!!! they should have looked more like "West Side Story" hoodlums of the early 60's and late 50's. Pat Boone kept saying, "Would you shake the hand of a skinny preacher?" But when he turns sideways, his derrière looks anything but skinny. The casting is just poor, so poor. The movie follows the book, but just barely. The absolute worst scene was Nicky's conversion to Christianity. It would remind you of a toothpaste advertisement. Whoever made this movie surely couldn't have been a Christian and doesn't have a clue. Read the book, don't waste your time with the movie