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$\"lastdaysinthedesert-51253\"$ <\/a>The film won\u2019t premiere at Sundance<\/a> for another 13 days, but Christianity Today<\/i>\u2019s Alissa Wilkinson posted an exclusive interview tonight with Last Days in the Desert<\/a><\/i> director Rodrigo Garcia and his star Ewan McGregor, who plays both Jesus and Satan in the low-budget film \u2014 and along the way, she offers a few review-ish opinions of the film itself, all of them positive.<\/p>\n
Among the more interesting tidbits:<\/p>\n
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The script was only 60 pages, much shorter than the usual 120. (The rule of thumb in Hollywood is that one page of script usually equals about one minute of screentime. In this case, the finished film is 98 minutes long.)\n<\/li>
McGregor says he has \u201cnever felt like a film was as important as this one for a long, long time. I was so moved by it, and so immediately passionate and connected to it.\u201d\n<\/li>
Jesus is called \u201cYeshua\u201d in the film because Garcia found the \u201cweight\u201d of the name Jesus \u201cparalyzing\u201d, at least when working in the English language. (In Garcia\u2019s native Spanish, many people are named Jesus.)\n<\/li>
The Jesus of this film, says Wilkinson, is \u201cconfident in his identity as the son of God while also struggling and being tempted by everything that a man would find tempting: hunger, exhaustion, loneliness, anger, lust, fear.\u201d\n<\/li>
Jesus \u201cworks hard to connect with his hosts\u201d \u2014 i.e. the family in crisis played by Ciaran Hinds, Ayelet Zurer and Tye Sheridan \u2014 \u201cas friends.\u201d\n<\/li>
Satan looks like Jesus but wears some jewelry, \u201cjust to underscore some vanity,\u201d says Garcia. \u201cLike he was like, \u2018I\u2019m going to dress as you, but with style<\/i>.\u2019\u201d\n<\/li>
Garcia conceived Satan as \u201cthe black sheep, the punished child. It makes you feel [like] these two are (at least metaphorical) children of a father whose opinion counts a lot<\/i> to them. That\u2019s any child, really.\u201d\n<\/li>
There isn\u2019t much music in the movie, but it has a \u201cgorgeously minimalist classical score\u201d by Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans (The One I Love<\/i>, Enemy<\/i>).\n<\/li>
Wilkinson says the film tells \u201ca warm, generous, and unexpected story, much like Yeshua himself.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\nYou can read the whole article \u2014 and see a few new pictures from the film \u2014 here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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