Three Very Different Films About Jesus
Whitewashing, blasphemy, violence, anti-Semitism, and other controversies
Films about Jesus have often been controversial. In the UK, the British Board of Film Classification’s original 1912 guidelines originally forbade any onscreen depiction, prohibiting “materialisation of the conventional figure of Christ”. Such blanket bans didn’t last, and the silent era included early cinematic curiosities such …
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