Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (08/09/89)
Really-From: JONES%RPIECS.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu
Hello there fellow Love-Hounds--
In a totally un-Kate-related note, I would just like to let you all
know that I was fortunate enough yesterday to locate _The Last Temptation
of Christ_ video (in, of all places, a local supermarket video rental).
If anybody out there is a Gabriel fan who appreciated his _Passion_ album
you may well enjoy hunting down the movie to see where all the music got
tied in. I'll tell you right now that the scene which included "A
Different Drum" was positively triumphant. But anyway! While there were
some scenes which I could not bring myself to watch (i.e. the crucifixion
scenes), Martin Scorsese did a GREAT job on this movie...VERY powerful.
I trembled through most of it. And while the movie could definitely prove
upsetting to devout Catholics, etc., and David Bowie's cameo as Pontias
Pilate was a tad too BRITISH-sounding, the movie was very well done.
Check it out, if you haven't already. I'd be interested to hear what
others have to say. And, if by some chance you haven't gone out and gotten
Gabriel's _Passion_ yet, all I can say is "What are you waiting for?"
All the best,
Deb WentorfLove-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (08/17/89)
Really-From: Alex Ferguson <alex%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK> Deb Wentorf writes: > In a totally un-Kate-related note, I would just like to let you all >know that I was fortunate enough yesterday to locate _The Last Temptation >of Christ_ video. Un-Kate-related? Don't you all know that KaTe is God, and St. Gabriel is Her Prophet? (Or was that the other way around? My theology was always a bit shakey. Like Scorsese's? :-) ) >If anybody out there is a Gabriel fan who appreciated his _Passion_ album >you may well enjoy hunting down the movie to see where all the music got >tied in. I think most Gabriel nuts probably saw the film at the cinema, and then spent several months anxiously awaiting the soundtrack. Certainly I was in such a situation. >Martin Scorsese did a GREAT job on this movie...VERY powerful. >I trembled through most of it. And while the movie could definitely prove >upsetting to devout Catholics, etc., and David Bowie's cameo as Pontias >Pilate was a tad too BRITISH-sounding, the movie was very well done. This is an interesting sidelight to much of the commentary on the cinematic release here, on the lines of "Christ with an American accent? Give me a break!" Personally, I wasn't unduly upset by this, as it was clearly trying to avoid the historical-epic kind of cliche'. Did you note the "convention" of having the good guys speaking with American accents, and the bad guys (Pilate, the "angel") in English ones? Rather counter to the normal practice, even if it wasn't deliberate or not. > Check it out, if you haven't already. I'd be interested to hear what >others have to say. And, if by some chance you haven't gone out and gotten >Gabriel's _Passion_ yet, all I can say is "What are you waiting for?" Seconded. Ignore the faint-praisers who've been calling this album "Birdy-esque" (much as like that album), this is an original, and powerful piece of work. -- Alex Ferguson. ARPA: alex%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk USENET: alex@glasgow.uucp BANGNET: ...!mcvax!ukc!cs.glasgow.ac.uk!alex JANET: alex@uk.ac.glasgow.cs "You mean you could have walked the galaxy and you simply never bothered?"
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (08/19/89)
Really-From: chinet!patrickd@att.att.com There was a bunch of stuff about how someone saw the film and anxiously awaited the sound track. I'm just putting this here to clear that up. Anyway, I saw the film more or less when it first came out. I also wrote a movie review about it (I was one of the two reporters to get hate mail, though the other guy got it because he was a jerk). The minute I saw that Gabriel did the music I was listening for it in the movie and it really made the movie better for me. I recently saw the movie again with a woman I met here in Chicago. Before the movie started I said to her "Pay attention to the music. Peter Gabriel did it and it really makes the movie." After the movie she says to me "I'm so glad I saw this with you. I was aware of the music and it really helped." Now I've got Passion and every time I listen to it I see images from the film and it is so powerful. I think it was a lot better to see the film first (though Passion can easily stand on its own, and I think it's his best work ever). Well, just thought I'd mention that one. -- "I place my faith in fools. Self confidence, my friends call it." -Edgar Allen Poe Patrick Deupree -> patrickd@chinet.chi.il.us