This is a Mother's Day movie recommendation in the making mostly because I've been in my own right trying to understand this movie from my entire childhood but now, having watched the film twice, once without Audio Commentary and the second with commentary from the director and Star of the film. Of all the movies my mother loved most, it was Jesus Christ Superstar that was her most all-time favorite along with my aunts’ favorites as well. Moreover, I'm simply tired of delaying this great classic so, now the time has finally come to talk about the one movie that brings seventies culture with religion for which people then still say that this film has brought them back to their faith.
Adapted from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Broadway rock opera, Jesus Christ Superstar recounts the last days of Jesus (Tim Neeley) from the perspective of Judas Iscariot (Carl Anderson), his betrayer. As Jesus following increases, Judas begins to worry that Jesus is falling his own hype, forgetting the principles of his teachings and, look if you've attended Catholic school or been raised by great parents then you've obviously known the final days of Christ so, apologies for trying to explain further.
Now, through the development of doing a Mother’s Day Recommendation it's mostly talking about my mom’s favorite movies or either my aunts or Sister's favorite movies. And I always delayed Jesus Christ Superstar because I wanted to understand more of these seventies hidden treasure. Moreover, after watching the Stage production of Hamilton with my niece on Disney Plus, I slowly realized that "you know logic is always out of the door when it comes to musicals" so, the time is now to finally talk about this great classic. If you had to talk to my mom and her three sisters about which is their favorite movie of all time would be, it would most certainly be Jesus Christ Superstar whenever it's Easter or any special day one of my aunts would say that Superstar would be a needed basis in listening to the album every Easter Season. And strangely enough how they discovered Jesus Christ Superstar was a bit of shock for me because out of all the people who bought the Album first when it came out some time in the early seventies was actually my Grandma (aka my Mom and Aunts mother), for which I never expected my Grandma to actually liked Jesus Christ Superstar mainly because I'd imagine my grandparents being those parents in the early seventies that found this abomination, but according to my Mom and one of my aunts she bought the album because out of her own faith in God and Jesus, for which when you think about it makes a lot of sense. And while Grandma was listening to the album out of her religion, the mom and her sisters got into it for the music, for which that was their own way of was how they grew closer to God. More importantly my mom, and Aunts grew up in a small town so, by the time the film was released in theatres they had to go to another town to watch this great classic and soon enough by the time of the films were released in 1973 the rest became history. Having watched this film twice along with audio commentary I now, understand what the filmmakers were actually going for in terms of telling a story and that's telling a story for the modern audience and if you think about it, that actually makes a ton of sense because if you’re a teenager or a young adult having hard time with faith and religion, this film was the movie that brought a ton of people back to their faith almost the same way Passion of the Christ or even The Chosen brought everyone back to religion and following God, moreover the fact that they shot this entire movie in the Holy Lands is really cool, for many reasons you can't do that now due to the fact that there's some serious tensions brewing in the lands of God. And even King Herold's musical scene that was shot at the Dead Sea is surprisingly awesome even though it still has comedic humor, I mean sure you’re not going to laugh at it much, but the film still puts a smile on my face. I would still say that this movie has more logic then Hamilton because Hamilton in real life was actually, a slave owner while this movie it's basically telling their own story for kids or teenagers as well as lost adults finding faith in God, by telling a story in modern times and to the filmmakers credit they did an exceptional job and even using very limited resources and just using the lands as it's center piece and even the scene where Jesus is all by himself, that's actually him climbing up the mountains not using any protective hardware for him to be safe just him climbing up the mountains with nothing but sandals to walk on, for as a director that would be a terrifying thing to worry about, for your actor but in the end they did a great job. Now I can go on and on about how great Jesus Christ Superstar is, unfortunately I need to go through a long treatment of trying to get the songs out of my head because these songs are like reliving a haunting nightmare or insanity process. But this film still stands the test of time, music as well, and telling a story for the ages, especially when Nixon was about to resign in a couple of months during that period. So, if you have a mother that's been raised with Jesus Christ Superstar then I would highly recommend watching this great musical with her this Mother’s Day, and even though this film does have some unintentional comedic humor this film still stands tall in one of the many greatest musicals of all time.
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