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Do you believe in dreams, Uncle Simeon? I do; I believe in nothing else. One night I dreamed that invisible enemies had me tied to a dead cypress. Long red arrows were sticking into me from my head to my feet, and the blood was flowing. On my head they had placed a crown of thorns, and intertwined with the thorns were fiery letters which said: "Saint Blasphemer." I am Saint Blasphemer, Rabbi Simeon. So you'd better not ask me anything else, or I'll start my blasphemies. - Nikos Kazantzakis, Ch. 10 - The Last Temptation of Christ (1951)

harvey keitel as judas iscariot & willem dafoe as jesus christ in THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (1988) dir. martin scorsese

THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (1988) dir. martin scorsese

harvey keitel as judas iscariot & willem dafoe as jesus christ in THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (1988) dir. martin scorsese

willem dafoe as jesus christ in THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (1988) dir. martin scorsese

"If we offer him sacrificial lambs, he shouts, "I don't want them, I don't want flesh; my hunger is satisfied only with psalms." If we open our mouths and begin to sing the psalms, he shouts "I don't want words. Nothing but the flesh of the lamb, of the son, of the only son, will satisfy my hunger!"

willem dafoe as jesus christ in THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (1988) dir. martin scorsese

“Someone came last night in my sleep,” he murmured under his breath, as though he feared the visitor were still there and might overhear him. “Someone came. Surely it was God, God ... or was it the devil? Who can tell them apart. They exchange faces; God sometimes becomes all darkness, the devil all light, and the mind of man is left in a muddle.” He shuddered. There were two paths. Which way should he go, which path should he choose?"