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For those for whom music and good performances have no limit of themes, this is a production that contains all this and a little more.
The successful musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, based on passages from the last seven days of Jesus' life, was successfully made into a movie with a script by Norman Jewison and Melvyn Bragg and the same title of the play, becoming a cult movie full of songs and situations analogous to the biblical passages but with that touch of rock that hooked the youth of those years to go to the theaters to see it.
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Ted Neeley, a singer and drummer played Jesus, while Carl Anderson who was also a singer played Judas Iscariot and Yvonne Elliman played Mary Magdalene, all three were part not only of the movie but also of the musical in the theater and were nominated for a Golden Globe for their performances in the feature film, The song "I Don't Know How To Love Him" performed by Elliman was a musical hit both in English and the Spanish version sung by Angela Carrasco. .
The same happened with the film, which had a theatrical version in Spanish directed and starring Camilo Sesto.
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The film begins with a group of actors arriving in a Hebrew school bus in Israel to perform the Passion of Christ, then the overture begins as the actors dress up and take their roles.
The lyrics of the songs reflect a modern and anachronistic vision of the characters who bring to the present situations with which they do not agree, especially Judas who is dissatisfied with the ideological-mystical progress of their leader.
All the musical interpretations have their choreography and the rock styles that appear are intermingled, being able to find passages of funk, prog rock, psychedelia, music-hall, glam... and others.
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Throughout the film, the film tries to make people meditate about the treatment that the mass media of that time and the authorities would give to Christ if instead of appearing in the time he did, he would have done it now.
As expected in a time of dilemmas it had its detractors and those who accused the creators of disrespecting the memory of Jesus Christ.
Personally I had a different time and enjoyed the performances, beyond idealizing the content, it seems to me something different that is worth seeing several times.
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The director of this work was the Canadian Norman Jewison who was already a veteran in the medium and had had recent success with the film "Fiddler on the Roof" and also participated in the script of the same.
It was nominated for an Oscar for best original song and won the David di Donatello Award in 1974 for best foreign film and the BAFTA of the same year for best soundtrack.