Rafaelo Infante
8B
February
1, 2012
Movie Review on Jesus Christ
Super Star
Jesus Christ Super Star, was
directed by Norman Jewison, and got a rating of 6.5 out of 10, according to
IMDb, an internet database that rates movies based upon its thousands of
registered users . In my opinion, these
thousands of registered voters are out of their minds. This movie should be given a 3 out of ten, at
most. I will tell you in my review why I
think this.
Norman Jewison directed Jesus Christ Superstar, and dozens of
others. The main actors in Jesus Christ Super star were Ted Neeley
as Jesus Christ, Carl Anderson as Judas, and Yvonne Elliman as Mary Magdalene. Jesus
Christ Super Star was produced in 1973 in the US. Jewison directed dozens of films including the
Oscar award winning In the Heat of the
Night, and Fiddler on a Roof. Late in his career he won the prestigious Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for lifetime
achievement.
Despite these successes I think that the rating for this movie should at
most be a 3 out 10. Why? Because the
movie didn’t make any sense. It’s like
the movie had no plot, and the songs that were sung didn’t go with what the
setting was. Jesus Christ Superstar
is a rock opera that was filmed in Jerusalem. The genre of the movie is a
drama, history and musical. The rock
didn’t rock, the history was totally unclear and “the fat lady didn’t sing.”
Let me give you a short summary of the movie -- there is a man
called, “Jesus”, a man who called himself the son of god. He went around teaching the word of God, but the
Jewish religious leaders didn’t support him, they thought he was a threat to
their power and authority. However, the villagers supported Jesus and marketed
him wildly to other people around Jerusalem. After Jesus became popular and was beginning
to get more power, the Jewish religious leaders got really scared and began to formulate
a plan to catch and kill Jesus. But they
didn’t know where he was or what he looked liked. One of Jesus’ old friends, Judas, didn’t like
what Jesus was doing either so he went to the Jews and told them that Jesus would
be having a dinner in the Garden of Gethsemane with his twelve apostles. Judas betrayed Jesus in exchange for 30
silver coins.
I really liked the way they filmed the movie Jesus Christ Superstar even if I didn’t
like the story, the way it was directed or acted. The three was earned because of the filming
and the way that they zoomed In on characters’ faces before starting the scene.
There were two scenes that were
absolutely spectacular. One of them was
where Judas (Carl Anderson) was
singing a song in the country. It
started out with him in one spot on a mountain, and then he started running and
singing across the landscape. The way
they filmed him doing this was remarkable. They followed him, I think they did
this with a rail. Another great scene was when there was some kind of a Greek
monument, which was almost fully destroyed. The camera was going in a circle around
the middle of the structure. There were many columns, and then out of the blue,
these people show up in the middle of the ruins. They are dancing. Then all
these people run to the middle where Jesus is standing. While they are running,
they also jump off boulders and walls. When
they jump the editor slowed the movie down so that it took longer for the
people to hit the ground. It was a really cool effect to put in because it
looked as if they were the ultimate parkour maniacs. Then, when Jesus’ followers get to the middle
they all dance differently. Like ballet
and hip-hop. While they are performing the camera men take screen shots, so that the movie stops -- it
gives the effect that the movie is on pause.
Even
though the filming was remarkable in parts,
Jesus Christ Superstar is not a movie I would recommend. People who are
most likely to enjoy this movie would be ages 60 and up. Any kids or grown ups would not like this
movie unless they are super religious, and want to see if this movie accurately
describes Jesus’ life or not. If you
don’t know anything about Jesus Christ, then this movie would be the worst
movie to explain to you about how he died and how he tried to stick to his
beliefs. This movie misses some of the
most important things that Jesus did, like his curing the sick, freeing the
slaves, and other miracles. In
conclusion: this movie is one of the worst I have ever seen. The fat lady never even made it to the
theater.
Bibliography
1. Imdb. N.p., n.d. Web. 30
Jan. 2012. <http:// http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070239/ >.
2.
Wiki page. Wikipedia . N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Jan. 2012.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio >.
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