[RobbyS]

Have you seen Pasolini's Gospel according to St. Matthew? To me it was an eye-opener. The actor was the most Semitic-looking person I have ever seen in the role of Jesus, complete with single eyebrow! And nothing soft about him! A complex figure: gentleness and firmness are found in equal proportions. [I have heard that Passolini was a Communist. If so, give me more communist directors, because he didn't sugar-coat "Matthew."] The passion was much less violent that I expected given the starkness of what went before. But "Jesus" preached more like Edwards than Bill Graham.

[drstevej]

Haven't seen Pasolini's Matthew. But no wimpy Jesus bounced the money changers from the temple. And I bet Jesus looked really Jewish!