REDEMPTION
Why wasn't I born when there wasn't any persecution? I would have been a great Christian,' " F or half a century, Scorsese has been a missionary for the cinema: making his own movies, promoting the work of great international directors, consolidating the history of the medium in...
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| Published in: | The New York times magazine 2016-11, p.44 |
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| Format: | Magazinearticle |
| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | Why wasn't I born when there wasn't any persecution? I would have been a great Christian,' " F or half a century, Scorsese has been a missionary for the cinema: making his own movies, promoting the work of great international directors, consolidating the history of the medium in a brilliant group of documentaries and advocating for the preservation of classics, Over time, this picture of his about a missionary adventure became a mission in its own right, and the act of getting it made became an act of faith, "I knew he had this script and was terribly disappointed that he couldn't get it made," Irwin Winkler, who produced "Raging Bull" and "Goodfellas," told me, "And I thought, What a sad state Hollywood is in when Martin Scorsese, with all his success, with all the honors he's gotten, can't get a movie made," There began an intense collective effort guided by Emma Tillinger Koskoff, the film's producer, to make the project materialize, Winkler worked through dozens of legal disputes attached to the project, Randall Emmett, a producer, secured new funding, and in 2013 Scorsese and some associates went to Cannes and returned with $21 million in distribution commitments, "I don't think he'd ever done that before," Koskoff told me, "but for this picture he has done a lot of things he hadn't done before." [...]Garfield reached the scene in which Rodrigues steps on the fumie, profaning the God he believes in and renouncing the faith he has come halfway across the world to preach. Rodrigues tramples on the fumie. Because his intention is right - to save the lives of others - the act seems right. Should the church adapt to particular cultures, or should it maintain an approach distinctively its own? Since the Council of Jerusalem - when the apostles, Jews by birth, clashed over whether new Christians should be held to Jewish law - the history of Christianity has turned on questions of inculturation. |
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| ISSN: | 0028-7822 |