In May 2023 Pope Francisco An international conference to be named “Global Aesthetics of Catholic imagination”. It was a confrontation with many artists whose religion was playing a major role, of course Martin Scorsese gold. A very fruitful conversation with HighThis made him put a movie: The life of Jesus Then it will be a movie about 80 minutes You will launch a strange vision of Christ.
He said at the time, “I responded to the Pope’s invitation to the artists in the only way I know Negative What is associated with the organized religion. ”
Since then, Scorsese has failed to finance The life of JesusThe time has passed in a way that was forced to face the death of the leader of the Catholic Church. This holy week Pope Francis died at the age of 88. Scorsese’s reaction was enthusiastic catholic.
And he told Indiewire.
“In everything, he was an unusual person. He realized his faults. He is wisdom and validity. He had an iron commitment to good. Ignorance It was a terrible plague of humanity. That is why he did not stop learning. He never stopped lighting. He embraced, preached and practiced forgiveness. Global and continuous forgiveness“.
Scorsese, panic
“The loss for me is deep; I was lucky to know him and I will miss his existence and warmth. Loss of the world It is a tremendous matter. But he left a light behind him, and he could never go out. ” Bad streets until silenceSkor Seasons cinema repeatedly returned about religion and faith, in a severe struggle with the violence of its characters. Talking about The life of JesusSkor Seasons wanted to deepen the need he felt as an author to address this issue.
“You say the word now ‘religion’ And everyone stands in the weapon because it failed in several ways. But this does not necessarily mean that the first motivation was a mistake. Let’s go back. Let’s think about it. You may reject it. But it can mean the difference in how to live your life, even reject it. Do not reject it from good to first. I just want to say that. “
“I wanted to find thunderous Y The last seduction of ChristEven with New York GangsThe ways to salvation and the human condition and how we face the negative things we carry inside. Are we fit and then learn to be inappropriate? Can we change? Do others accept this change? I really believe that the fear of society and the culture that is corrupt because of its lack of ethics and spirituality. ”She reflects a manager. To the limit.
“Not in religion. Spirituality. Deny it. So, for me, it comes to finding my own way … if you want Basic basic beliefs I have (or what I try to get) and use these films to find them. ”
Now after the death of the Pope, Scorsese may have renewed the strength to get it The life of Jesus.
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