Since Easter's coming up...again

[refered by IdeaJoy]

Surely this IS the greatest story ever told. A populist preacher — from the backwater of a backwater — is abruptly snuffed out, crushed under the Imperial foot. Yet his message spreads, flashing into a conflagration which the mightiest empire in the world can't extinguish and is ultimately consumed by. The story gets even better when you consider the mythically-perfect oppositions set into conflict: incomparable military power and grandiose display versus the humility, love and sacrifice of that one solitary life. You can't get much more dramatic than that. And it's not just great drama: it's spectacular cinema — the first subject truly worthy of Hollywood's epic ambitions and widescreen-Technicolor-special effects presentation. There is this little problem, though. The Tinsel Town treatment and all the trimmings are decidedly at odds with everything the subject had to say about mass taste, fame, wealth and power. And despite the obvious cinematic possibilities for a showdown with the Empire, the core of this story involves less a political revolution than a change of hearts: much less easy to photograph, and touching upon miracles that glitzy effects may tend only diminish.

---from Epic Survey of Jesus Movies From La vie et la passion de Jésus Christ to The Passion of the Christ By Mike Hertenstein