Judas was black in real life but the point is that Jesus forgave him. Ultimately, the film demonstrates beautifully that even though judas is black he is welcome in the kingdom of heaven. It's all about forgiveness. Also, Judas betrayed him so that makes it even more poignant! Also, subtle but nicely done, Judas wearing white thus implying that he has been changed from an evil black man to a good man.
I am not the most religious person, but over the years it seems to me that Judas loved Jesus the most. I find that strange but thats how it seems to me.
Actually, according to many beliefs (including mine) Judas was the one Jesus trusted most and was closest to (other than Magdalena) So Jesus sent Judas to "sell him out" so he could carry out his destiny. This is why Judas threw the coins away afterward.
@SuperDecision Interesting although I always though he tossed the coins back out of remorse. Along with your theory how would you explain his motives for suicide ?
@WRI2012 Have you ever been responsible for the death of someone you love, few people have. To me his suicide proves that he truly loved Jesus, and could only have done what he did out of that love. Afterwards, he couldn't bear it. Otherwise, he wouldn't have cared. The only other possibilities are, he was greedy or resentful. In either of those two cases, he would have kept the coins and skipped town. Maybe with a twinge of guilt now and then, but nothing more.
"god' myth! the invention of man to cope with the harsh realities of everyday life and to cope with ones own personal mortality its called a denial of fatalism there was no first couple in paradise no fall no tower of babel no universial flood this is all mythology!
@TheTitanic4 Actually Judas isnot the Devil , but the devilish spirit resides into him as a spiritual personal entity, I mean a diabolic possesion as learned in Demonology
It doesnt matter about why Judas is black, feck sake, Ted Neeley (Jesus) is white. I dont even think there are any Jewish singers in this film. Carl Anderson is an amazing singer and no one else could sing his songs in this film better. Why do people have to analyze things. Just watch the film, listen to the music and enjoy.
@Godisfinger What is your basement to say this? Why the movie likes you, but not the religion? Perhaps only the face , the aggreable skin but the message is the same, hidden to mundane eyes
i have never seen the film but my son(who goes to catholic school) has and it is love of this song that has brought me here.never has religion been so funky!
Believe it or not, Sister Mary Joseph of high school parochial socialism class played the original vinyl album for us back in 1973, and she was the last remaining strict nuns from the disciplinary old school. That alone left me shell shocked, of all people. But I still got the album myself, and still have it to this day. Got the movie on DVD last year. Thank god they kept Yvonne.
Jesus Christ/Michael the Archangel is here with us!
He lives in Strong City in New Mexico. His birth name is Wayne Bent and he says he is the Messiah, the Son of God and Michael the Archangel! His website is Strong City (one word) dot org
I know him personally and I believe what he says. He has a track record very similar to Jesus Christ 2000 years ago.. So, it is definitively worth that you learn more about him!
@BillyJim1970 i don't what you're raving about or to whom, but it's a little negative & unpleasant & tempting out the rest of us to be too! (:D got anything NICE to say?
As A Christian I'm sorry to say that I spend Sundays in the pub rather than in church but everytime I hear this it gives me goosebumps. Andrew and Tim have been touched by God, I hope I have too in some way.
@weecassie1 if you are talking to your pub buddies about Him, maybe that's where God is using you. (but if it makes you feel sorry, lol, maybe us fellow believers will pray you get it all straightened out, & you pray for me too, 'k? :)
He probably could move a mountain, he was just given the oppertunity to have it done for him (SAW) and he said No, Believers might come from that town! Most of the people of the town to be squeezed between two mountains, eventually became SINCERE BELIEVERS in the Creator of Existence!!!!!!!
There's no question of this film having been labelled as blaphemous. I remember when the film was first launched in Catholic countries (1971?) in Europe it was allowed to be circuited in all cinema halls as it had been vetted as 'positively oriented' by the Vatican authorities in Rome. At the time, censorship in Catholic countries was really tight and influential, so no question of it having been banned or labelled as blasphemous.
jesus here is superserious in Godspell Jesus is portrayed as a clown -- both not jesus but what we think jesus may have been like writing.com eliasstone
Three days He was up there. 72 hours of misery... as much as the human body could take. Ask yourself if you believe Jesus existed. If you do believe He existed, ask yourself what you believe He did, and who He really was.
I grew up listening to this....memorized much of it. It was the music of the very early years of my childhood. So brilliant. We are allowed to interpret Him and His life any way we like. This is just one way to know Him. If it entertains us, makes us happy and joyous, keeps us mindful of Him, brings us closer to Him...I believe He would be happy. I believe Christ to be infinitely more kind, compassionate, forgiving, and tolerant than we are to each other. I find this beauty. Not blasphemy.
If one reads the Gospel of Judas, whose discovery was just made public several years ago, there is more than a suggestion that God was not the only one who knew "the plan". Jesus and Judas, as Jesus' right-hand-man, knew all along what had to be done to fulfill the prophesies. Nothing happens without reason or without design.
The Gospel of Judas is badly fragmented and written at least two centuries after the fact. I wouldn't put much stock in it. Though I think Tim Rice's interpretation is nonetheless brilliant.
You say that as though the other gospels were any better. The four canonical pieces of rubbish were all written well into the Second Century. We don't have a historical account of the life of Yeshua of Galilee--nothing close. Get over it.
I don't know where you get your information. Almost all Biblical scholars, including the more secular ones like Elaine Pagels, Bart Ehrman, etc., put all the Gospels 70-100 AD. Plus Paul's letters, although they include little about the life of Jesus, do make concrete references to him and were written decades earlier. Furthermore, I have nothing to "get over". I am not particularly religious and most Christians would probably not consider me Christian but secular.
Chuckles123thefish, i quite like that they portrayed Judas in a way that creates pathos for him. At the end of the day, Judas was a man, just like any other, yet the history books make him out to be some kind of unnatural being, almost akin to the devil, for betraying Jesus. Think about what Judas says, 'I'll never know why you chose me' if God created everything, then he knew that Judas was going to betray Jesus. Perhaps Judas was just the puppet.
2;58! Carl Anderson was such an extraodinary gifted singer & perfomer..& so is Ted Neely. So cool that they garnered so much acclaim from the film, that until Carl passed, both toured the live stage revival, which I saw & was tremendous, all the people who love the film version came to know Ted & Carl for just making this show all their own & so memorable.
Seen this a million times, in the theater, on TV, bought the soundtrack album, CD. program,! I just love this, more so the film version than the stage show..mostly due to the amazing artistry of Texan TedNeely, the late, great dearly missed Carl Anderson, Yvonne Elliman, Norman Jewison's brilliant direction, & some of the phunkiest dancing & set, & lighting in the title song, ever! When Carl Anderson outstretched his arms with those 70's fringes..surrounded by his phunkalicious dancers., bliss
This part of the movie always gives me goosebumps because Jesus did transform from the beaten and bloodied man to a ressurected being who took his blood sacrifice to his Father in the heavens. My only criticism of the rock opera is that Judas is made a victim of God. He was actually a dishonest man who betrayed Jesus, and so his infamy is due to his own selfish behavior. i love this actor who plays Judas because he has a beautiful voice, but his portrayal is due to the writers of the opera.
If I was God then this song kicks it, so does the rest of the movie to boot. So glad some of the humans can be understanding without the need for worship this and that crap!
Don't pray to me, live it out in a good way and help thy neighbour, as it should be xxx
This is a great movie, some are destined to help people so do not abuse, take care of each other and yourselves, Tammy Mast, Your Royal Countess, Savior Healer
When this came out, christians were OuTrAgEd that people DARE make a "mockery" of the story of jesus. A "musical" of the story of jesus? They were fuming.
It's amusing how perception changes over time. Now it's seen as a sort of charming "retro" rendition.
The Passion of the Christ was a far worse movie, but christians flocked to it and gave great, weepy reviews on the news.
it's amusing to see christians are no more enlightened than anyone else ;)
Awwwwwwww... the bit at the start makes me feel really sad and guilty even though I wasn't there. He just looks so innocent in his white robe, like two little puppies cuddling eachother. And I really don't know why! But it really makes ya think. Jesus would have been better off today because we would kill the poor guy... we would just check him in to the loony bin (Mental hospital) for a couple of months!!!
Who is this that suffers for not just a few in the world but all the world? Who is this that Loves not just part of the world but the entire world. Can it be that we who cannot see the Truth but are blinded to the Truth in our own ignorance. A life was given for not just one person, but everyone. In a place where admission is free and eternal life is your reward. Have Love, Compassion and Forgiveness for one another always! Peace be with you all
I want one of those white "Vegas Elvis" fringe outfits like Judas wears. This number never gets old, the dancing is SO 70's Soul Train and Anderson's vocals are the best rendition of this song ever. Classic.
Tim Rice (who wrote the lyrics) was quoted as saying "It happens that we don't see Christ as God but simply the right man at the right time at the right place."
Me thinks a lot of people are missing the point of what this movie was actually saying. There is a reason they don't show him performing miracles in this film. What you are seeing is everyone around him projecting things upon him.
This movie was condemned and picketed for being blasphemous. The irony is incredible lol
This is a tough song/scene to interpret. Judas looks like an angel and comes down from a star, but remains angry and critical and his girls come out of a seeming cave filled with fire, hellish image.
So is Judas in heaven or hell in this song? Why does this song seem mocking?
The way I look at it is just a big showy finale- broadway style. Also meant to appeal to the acid type generation.
I don't think it adds much or seems to have much bearing on the story itself.
It is also possible that this is Christ's last temptation on the cross - a vision of "what he could have been" in a world of mass communication and so forth, like when Satan showed him all the kingdoms of the earth and said "All this I will give to you if you will bown down and worship me".
@ambariel Judas is the audience. He is the real star of this film. He is simply asking the same questions mankind asks. Posing the very simple question, "Why would the son of god chose this location, at this time in history, to say something that would have no chance to make it out to most of the rest of the world for well over a thousand years. Hence "No mass communication"
I love the music. I saw this when it was traveling around before it went to Broadway. It was the first introduction to Andrew Lloyd Webber for me and I've been in love with his music and shows ever since.
i never understood the end of this, though its very good performance and all, it makes no sense in the story...i view it as simply the creater of the rock opera, asking, through judas, "were you who you said you were jesus?" in other words, "were you real or a joke?".. not a question i need to ask, but regardless, good performance
@longfootbuddy well it makes plenty of sense coming from judas, after betraying jesus he kinda reconsiders whether jesus was the real deal, and also illustrated a point of view of many civillians at the time
this version is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY better than the 2000 version. i like the way judas is depictedin this version better, as a conflicted man who struggles with his choices instead of a heartless cruel monster
Oh, I don't that the other one in the 2000 version wasn't such a "heartless cruel monster" as all that. The moments when they look into each other's eyes: One does see a conflicted man who struggles with his choices.
To sherylinturngek: I hear what you're saying but this is a musical, it's art. This was a great movie and I've loved it since it first came out. It's not the exact story of Jesus (and yes, I'm a believer) but an intrepetation of the writers aka the artists who created this.
la mejor cancion y el mejor cantante de esta pelicula
ThePedrope86 5 days ago
I don't care what color the man is, he's GREAT.
I can see why they had him play the part he deserves the part.
Thanks for sharing.
605cw 1 week ago
Scotarg1973, that's a little racist
flowerqueen832 1 week ago
Judas was black in real life but the point is that Jesus forgave him. Ultimately, the film demonstrates beautifully that even though judas is black he is welcome in the kingdom of heaven. It's all about forgiveness. Also, Judas betrayed him so that makes it even more poignant! Also, subtle but nicely done, Judas wearing white thus implying that he has been changed from an evil black man to a good man.
scotarg1973 1 week ago
I am not the most religious person, but over the years it seems to me that Judas loved Jesus the most. I find that strange but thats how it seems to me.
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paha1000 2 weeks ago
Jesus was a real person! But was he the Christ is debatable!
macrent2 2 weeks ago
Actually, according to many beliefs (including mine) Judas was the one Jesus trusted most and was closest to (other than Magdalena) So Jesus sent Judas to "sell him out" so he could carry out his destiny. This is why Judas threw the coins away afterward.
SuperDecision 3 weeks ago
@SuperDecision Interesting although I always though he tossed the coins back out of remorse. Along with your theory how would you explain his motives for suicide ?
WRI2012 3 weeks ago
@WRI2012 Have you ever been responsible for the death of someone you love, few people have. To me his suicide proves that he truly loved Jesus, and could only have done what he did out of that love. Afterwards, he couldn't bear it. Otherwise, he wouldn't have cared. The only other possibilities are, he was greedy or resentful. In either of those two cases, he would have kept the coins and skipped town. Maybe with a twinge of guilt now and then, but nothing more.
SuperDecision 3 weeks ago
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Dear Judas,
With out acceptance love is mute
the closer we come to infinite compassion the nearer we are to infinite love
the only condition true love has is understanding..
It was worth it all,
Jesus
WRI2012 3 weeks ago
jesus: an imaginary character made up to scare children into going to bed earlier.
tigging 3 weeks ago
Oooh, you're edgy. Hey guys, this guy is edgy. Real freethinker.
Deathrune456 3 weeks ago
@tigging No, I am (including historians) sure Jesus was a real person! Now, weather he was the Christ is debatable in religious studies!
macrent2 2 weeks ago
i loved this movie !!! i saw it 39 years ago as child ... loved it then & still love it !!!
beck740 4 weeks ago
@trifulquita15
So you've never heard of sister act?
DiggrBoi 1 month ago
"god' myth! the invention of man to cope with the harsh realities of everyday life and to cope with ones own personal mortality its called a denial of fatalism there was no first couple in paradise no fall no tower of babel no universial flood this is all mythology!
LVCrocky 1 month ago
@LVCrocky Well, tell us then, what came first the chicken or the egg?
3refs 1 month ago
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WRI2012 3 weeks ago
@WRI2012 ya can't have a beach without water. They call that a desert!
3refs 3 weeks ago
Anyway, the Evil (personal entity or not) is always associated with the black colour, from ancient times...
calderona100 1 month ago
The only and last christian musical
trifulquita15 1 month ago
Haha the Devil is black of course...bah is only a matter of representation, He hasnt shape
calderona100 1 month ago in playlist Songs-Canciones2
@calderona100 Why do people always think he is the devil? he is Judas Iscariot's spirit coming to Jesus asking him who he really is..
TheTitanic4 1 month ago
@TheTitanic4 Actually Judas isnot the Devil , but the devilish spirit resides into him as a spiritual personal entity, I mean a diabolic possesion as learned in Demonology
calderona100 1 month ago
i love this musicaaaaaaaaaalllllll
GaiaFloyd 1 month ago
Saw the play at the Muny outdoor theater in St. Louis in 95 and I think Ted Neeley did the role of Jesus. That or Carl was Judas. A bit fuzzy now.
RevIlikai 1 month ago
Out standing Effort to date 2012 Carl Anderson is still the best May Carl R.I.P
robertlobley 1 month ago
LLLoyDD wEBBBBBBeR rulllesss
n0tarius 1 month ago
NO OTHER VERSION COMPARES TO THIS.
5squiddles 1 month ago 3
Do you know why Judas is black? The guy walked in, auditioned, and got the part. That's why he's Black.
Bangurdead25 1 month ago 32
@Bangurdead25 bad mouths said also that his parents were black
blucenere 1 week ago
as Loobz73 says, stop. please. don't miss the message.
helenheelss 1 month ago
It doesnt matter about why Judas is black, feck sake, Ted Neeley (Jesus) is white. I dont even think there are any Jewish singers in this film. Carl Anderson is an amazing singer and no one else could sing his songs in this film better. Why do people have to analyze things. Just watch the film, listen to the music and enjoy.
Loobz73 1 month ago 13
Show me 1 white guy that mocks Tim Tebo and I"LL show you 10 blacks that do...
01skynyrdfan01 1 month ago
jews kill your jesus
baniyas2011 2 months ago
Who cares if he is black it matters if he can do good acting I seen this since i was 4 and its still good music
SHADOWOFTHENIGHT1234 2 months ago
Why Judas is black in the movie?
klaudjow04 2 months ago
@klaudjow04 cuz no whiteass could sing and act like Carl Anderson did.
luiscurtolo 2 months ago
@klaudjow04 because Carl Anderson is a badass, and so was Ben Vereen. A better question is why is Jesus always played by a white guy in this show?
tomatoherb 2 months ago
@klaudjow04 Some of the other apostles are African American too. They wanted a diverse cast and that's great.
NeverDoubt1 1 month ago
Jesus Christ Superstar - Because religion is fucking dope.
Godisfinger 2 months ago
@Godisfinger What is your basement to say this? Why the movie likes you, but not the religion? Perhaps only the face , the aggreable skin but the message is the same, hidden to mundane eyes
calderona100 1 month ago
I have ALWAYS loved this "rock opera"!
MrKentrob61 2 months ago
i have never seen the film but my son(who goes to catholic school) has and it is love of this song that has brought me here.never has religion been so funky!
Amandamoo73 2 months ago 3
this was a great play and had many wonderful songs in it...
wsr154 2 months ago
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DougMacary 2 months ago
PR is Public Relations
Sooperdave1 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
so sad to say that justine biever have million viewers than this vedio.. :(
poloybugoy 2 months ago
London vinyl album was major.
supermandisco 2 months ago
Believe it or not, Sister Mary Joseph of high school parochial socialism class played the original vinyl album for us back in 1973, and she was the last remaining strict nuns from the disciplinary old school. That alone left me shell shocked, of all people. But I still got the album myself, and still have it to this day. Got the movie on DVD last year. Thank god they kept Yvonne.
supermandisco 2 months ago
this is my childhood i loved this version the best go Carl Anderson
TheGoldenstorm1 3 months ago
Fabulous song! One of the best musicals ever!!
Hjeagles 3 months ago
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Jesus Christ/Michael the Archangel is here with us!
He lives in Strong City in New Mexico. His birth name is Wayne Bent and he says he is the Messiah, the Son of God and Michael the Archangel! His website is Strong City (one word) dot org
I know him personally and I believe what he says. He has a track record very similar to Jesus Christ 2000 years ago.. So, it is definitively worth that you learn more about him!
Christian1Alber 3 months ago
Truth, can only be told to, who is willing to listen and to understand.
But, just like in the matrix, once you know, there's no turning back.
for you will be awakened.
WolfEyesatNight 3 months ago
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WolfEyesatNight 3 months ago
I have to admit, people in the 70's knew Rock and Roll.
WolfEyesatNight 3 months ago 3
@BillyJim1970 i don't what you're raving about or to whom, but it's a little negative & unpleasant & tempting out the rest of us to be too! (:D got anything NICE to say?
factsfair 3 months ago
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Ted Neeley is a beautiful man.
Lacilu22 3 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
a great movie with awesome songs
pornbunny5 3 months ago
@pornbunny5 unlike your repulsive name
factsfair 3 months ago
As A Christian I'm sorry to say that I spend Sundays in the pub rather than in church but everytime I hear this it gives me goosebumps. Andrew and Tim have been touched by God, I hope I have too in some way.
weecassie1 3 months ago 2
@weecassie1 if you are talking to your pub buddies about Him, maybe that's where God is using you. (but if it makes you feel sorry, lol, maybe us fellow believers will pray you get it all straightened out, & you pray for me too, 'k? :)
factsfair 3 months ago
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weecassie1 3 months ago
He probably could move a mountain, he was just given the oppertunity to have it done for him (SAW) and he said No, Believers might come from that town! Most of the people of the town to be squeezed between two mountains, eventually became SINCERE BELIEVERS in the Creator of Existence!!!!!!!
AbdullahIbnBilal1 3 months ago
Jesus Christ is the only superstar in the all world
dianislamb 3 months ago 2
glee aint got nothing on this...they dont make them like they used too..
rckhnt 3 months ago 2
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Thank you so much... i was getting lost ...
dhsmitt 3 months ago
great
toogawnjawn 3 months ago
There's no question of this film having been labelled as blaphemous. I remember when the film was first launched in Catholic countries (1971?) in Europe it was allowed to be circuited in all cinema halls as it had been vetted as 'positively oriented' by the Vatican authorities in Rome. At the time, censorship in Catholic countries was really tight and influential, so no question of it having been banned or labelled as blasphemous.
Toottycat 3 months ago
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NeverDoubt1 2 months ago
@Toottycat Thankfully they showed us this film in Catholic school. :)
NeverDoubt1 2 months ago
JESUCRISTO, el hombre más grande en la historia de la humanidad.
dios160 3 months ago
jesus here is superserious in Godspell Jesus is portrayed as a clown -- both not jesus but what we think jesus may have been like writing.com eliasstone
inertialcapacity 3 months ago
Everytime I watch this movie, I sing it from beginning to end,....LoL (annoying movie watcher) LOVE It!
TrgdyAnn 3 months ago 2
Three days He was up there. 72 hours of misery... as much as the human body could take. Ask yourself if you believe Jesus existed. If you do believe He existed, ask yourself what you believe He did, and who He really was.
OldieBones 3 months ago
don't ya get me wrong, man...DON'T YA GET ME WRONG!
Videofunifier 3 months ago
I actually love the bassline to this xD its so... funky!
Ungraceful94 4 months ago
I grew up listening to this....memorized much of it. It was the music of the very early years of my childhood. So brilliant. We are allowed to interpret Him and His life any way we like. This is just one way to know Him. If it entertains us, makes us happy and joyous, keeps us mindful of Him, brings us closer to Him...I believe He would be happy. I believe Christ to be infinitely more kind, compassionate, forgiving, and tolerant than we are to each other. I find this beauty. Not blasphemy.
triplefire67 4 months ago 2
Now if church was like this they might get me out of bed on a Sunday LOL
stevoleanne 4 months ago 55
@stevoleanne
because of the songs or the girls?
if u ask me BOTH!
AwOme3s 3 months ago
@AwOme3s Both
stevoleanne 3 months ago
@stevoleanne me too! lol
soilofk 2 months ago
@stevoleanne Or if movies were still like this they might get me into a theatre on Sunday.
goback3spaces 2 months ago
carly's angels.... get it
Gmanreviewer 4 months ago 14
When I die I totally want wings made of white fringe.
mokster5 4 months ago
@mokster5 and a star with a chain hanging from it that I can ride down to the top of a random amphitheater
lgmmrm 3 months ago
@lgmmrm Obviously! Not to mention awesome backup dancers. A gloomy Jesus can stay out of the picture though.
mokster5 3 months ago
Anyone notice that they go slightly flat at the part with the choir of women? It doesn't bother me much, I just noticed it.
CrimeAndMistermeanor 4 months ago
@CrimeAndMistermeanor I think its becuase they dont either have enough women or women with a powerful enough voice singing it :/ Tis good though :)
Ungraceful94 4 months ago
I just really love this movie and all the music!!!
SherrieWPRS 4 months ago
anderson kills every song in this great movie.
tsunchoo 4 months ago
GRooviest angels ive ever seen. xD
LoveHateLoveHate100 4 months ago
And of course, this is Judas getting the last laugh. But Jesus is the real hero of this! He rose from the dead 3 days later; Judas....? Hell, no!
pookerville 4 months ago
Ted Neeley was fuckin HOT! ;-)
SuperAgaden 4 months ago
the only thing about this film i liked was how immensly fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine the actor who played jesus was DAMN
hotbambi2010 4 months ago
black disco judas :)
dio89 5 months ago 2
2:11 wow
joebombero1 5 months ago
"Could Mohammad move a mountain, or was that just PR?"
DickieAnginson 5 months ago
@DickieAnginson
PR.
LTF6161 5 months ago
@DickieAnginson what does the PR mean?
12nabbia12 2 months ago
by the look of those angels i nave to ask,Heavens got peeler bars?
rg6025 5 months ago
Just have to say it...Judas has a point.
alsowikk 5 months ago
QUE MARAVILLA ¡¡¡¡¡¡.....MY LORD
MrButch1962 5 months ago
cool mannn!!!
socrates660 5 months ago
If one reads the Gospel of Judas, whose discovery was just made public several years ago, there is more than a suggestion that God was not the only one who knew "the plan". Jesus and Judas, as Jesus' right-hand-man, knew all along what had to be done to fulfill the prophesies. Nothing happens without reason or without design.
98Leolover 5 months ago
@98Leolover
The Gospel of Judas is badly fragmented and written at least two centuries after the fact. I wouldn't put much stock in it. Though I think Tim Rice's interpretation is nonetheless brilliant.
LTF6161 5 months ago
@LTF6161
You say that as though the other gospels were any better. The four canonical pieces of rubbish were all written well into the Second Century. We don't have a historical account of the life of Yeshua of Galilee--nothing close. Get over it.
Anomalous59 5 months ago
@Anomalous59
I don't know where you get your information. Almost all Biblical scholars, including the more secular ones like Elaine Pagels, Bart Ehrman, etc., put all the Gospels 70-100 AD. Plus Paul's letters, although they include little about the life of Jesus, do make concrete references to him and were written decades earlier. Furthermore, I have nothing to "get over". I am not particularly religious and most Christians would probably not consider me Christian but secular.
LTF6161 5 months ago
@Anomalous59 Blasphemy ftw
jesusthroughmary 4 months ago
My favorite part of the movie.... I agree with ravenblackwings comment - this movie made me think differently about Judas...
bubblybabs 5 months ago
Chuckles123thefish, i quite like that they portrayed Judas in a way that creates pathos for him. At the end of the day, Judas was a man, just like any other, yet the history books make him out to be some kind of unnatural being, almost akin to the devil, for betraying Jesus. Think about what Judas says, 'I'll never know why you chose me' if God created everything, then he knew that Judas was going to betray Jesus. Perhaps Judas was just the puppet.
ravenblackwings 6 months ago 2
2;58! Carl Anderson was such an extraodinary gifted singer & perfomer..& so is Ted Neely. So cool that they garnered so much acclaim from the film, that until Carl passed, both toured the live stage revival, which I saw & was tremendous, all the people who love the film version came to know Ted & Carl for just making this show all their own & so memorable.
arweiss100 6 months ago
Seen this a million times, in the theater, on TV, bought the soundtrack album, CD. program,! I just love this, more so the film version than the stage show..mostly due to the amazing artistry of Texan TedNeely, the late, great dearly missed Carl Anderson, Yvonne Elliman, Norman Jewison's brilliant direction, & some of the phunkiest dancing & set, & lighting in the title song, ever! When Carl Anderson outstretched his arms with those 70's fringes..surrounded by his phunkalicious dancers., bliss
arweiss100 6 months ago
this is only complete with pilot's rant at him. pilot was the most forgiving, personable and understanding person in the play.
lexichronicle2 6 months ago
Jesus Christ superstar, looks like a women and he wears a bra!
TheMidoriGiant 6 months ago
This part of the movie always gives me goosebumps because Jesus did transform from the beaten and bloodied man to a ressurected being who took his blood sacrifice to his Father in the heavens. My only criticism of the rock opera is that Judas is made a victim of God. He was actually a dishonest man who betrayed Jesus, and so his infamy is due to his own selfish behavior. i love this actor who plays Judas because he has a beautiful voice, but his portrayal is due to the writers of the opera.
Chuckles123thefish 6 months ago
i dvr'd the whole movie
Syzygy60 6 months ago
If I was God then this song kicks it, so does the rest of the movie to boot. So glad some of the humans can be understanding without the need for worship this and that crap!
Don't pray to me, live it out in a good way and help thy neighbour, as it should be xxx
SpacemanVisiting 7 months ago 2
Carl Anderson! Good God!
kharib76 7 months ago
Jesus Christ thank you
Jackupnow 7 months ago
My Mom found the Lord through this movie. Love it
jetta4eva 7 months ago
This is a great movie, some are destined to help people so do not abuse, take care of each other and yourselves, Tammy Mast, Your Royal Countess, Savior Healer
wrk4gd 7 months ago
When this came out, christians were OuTrAgEd that people DARE make a "mockery" of the story of jesus. A "musical" of the story of jesus? They were fuming.
It's amusing how perception changes over time. Now it's seen as a sort of charming "retro" rendition.
The Passion of the Christ was a far worse movie, but christians flocked to it and gave great, weepy reviews on the news.
it's amusing to see christians are no more enlightened than anyone else ;)
xxartisticxx 7 months ago
@xxartisticxx Very good observation, I never thought about it but very insightful.
kimrabb 7 months ago
Jesus rocks...
SCOPOtuaMADRE 7 months ago
oh my gosh, in my last post, i put " we would kill the guy" but I really ment "wouldn't"! Sorry. I type fast...
MartyMaraschino1959 7 months ago
Awwwwwwww... the bit at the start makes me feel really sad and guilty even though I wasn't there. He just looks so innocent in his white robe, like two little puppies cuddling eachother. And I really don't know why! But it really makes ya think. Jesus would have been better off today because we would kill the poor guy... we would just check him in to the loony bin (Mental hospital) for a couple of months!!!
MartyMaraschino1959 7 months ago
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ben17337 7 months ago
Who is this that suffers for not just a few in the world but all the world? Who is this that Loves not just part of the world but the entire world. Can it be that we who cannot see the Truth but are blinded to the Truth in our own ignorance. A life was given for not just one person, but everyone. In a place where admission is free and eternal life is your reward. Have Love, Compassion and Forgiveness for one another always! Peace be with you all
Idotgotit 7 months ago
So awesome!
NothinButHitzman 8 months ago
I want one of those white "Vegas Elvis" fringe outfits like Judas wears. This number never gets old, the dancing is SO 70's Soul Train and Anderson's vocals are the best rendition of this song ever. Classic.
XANADUFITNESS 8 months ago 2
JESUS is my superstar..........
buffspringfield 8 months ago
jiMMY dIVINE AND THE DOORS+++
TheRenaissancePen 8 months ago
WEIRD.
ThisGirlisColdHearte 9 months ago
Uma das maiores obras alguma vez realizadas.
costaz69 9 months ago
Album jacket credits one Steven Vaughan with guitar. Hmmm
DizzyD9960 9 months ago
Tim Rice (who wrote the lyrics) was quoted as saying "It happens that we don't see Christ as God but simply the right man at the right time at the right place."
Me thinks a lot of people are missing the point of what this movie was actually saying. There is a reason they don't show him performing miracles in this film. What you are seeing is everyone around him projecting things upon him.
This movie was condemned and picketed for being blasphemous. The irony is incredible lol
thechurchofdave 9 months ago 15
@thechurchofdave, very good analysis. worth thinking about.
shizzy35 9 months ago
This is a tough song/scene to interpret. Judas looks like an angel and comes down from a star, but remains angry and critical and his girls come out of a seeming cave filled with fire, hellish image.
So is Judas in heaven or hell in this song? Why does this song seem mocking?
The way I look at it is just a big showy finale- broadway style. Also meant to appeal to the acid type generation.
I don't think it adds much or seems to have much bearing on the story itself.
ambariel 10 months ago
It is also possible that this is Christ's last temptation on the cross - a vision of "what he could have been" in a world of mass communication and so forth, like when Satan showed him all the kingdoms of the earth and said "All this I will give to you if you will bown down and worship me".
ambariel 10 months ago 2
@ambariel Judas is the audience. He is the real star of this film. He is simply asking the same questions mankind asks. Posing the very simple question, "Why would the son of god chose this location, at this time in history, to say something that would have no chance to make it out to most of the rest of the world for well over a thousand years. Hence "No mass communication"
thechurchofdave 9 months ago 2
I love the music. I saw this when it was traveling around before it went to Broadway. It was the first introduction to Andrew Lloyd Webber for me and I've been in love with his music and shows ever since.
sharon102645 10 months ago
I'm starting to get annoyed by their white costumes..
ChibiSugar 10 months ago
jesús live superstar great picture great songs classic JESUS LIVE FOREVER
judoshawa 10 months ago
@judoshawa I TOTALY AGREE
diceman844 10 months ago
A classic!!!
am2boni 10 months ago
40 years on (nearly)..and ageless.....great movie...great songs..great performances...luv it..it rocks!!!!:-)
tasbomber 10 months ago 7
I saw Ian Gillian sing a portion of this on a show with Deep Purple back in the 80's, so cool and so unexpected when the band did it perfectly
jennifersman 10 months ago
This seems so much more realistic and sounds better than the 2000 version
horsedog1296 10 months ago
Carl Anderson was so intense when he did this! Superb!
srich49 11 months ago 3
Awesome choreography...I want to do this show again!!!
MrDavesreviews 11 months ago
i never understood the end of this, though its very good performance and all, it makes no sense in the story...i view it as simply the creater of the rock opera, asking, through judas, "were you who you said you were jesus?" in other words, "were you real or a joke?".. not a question i need to ask, but regardless, good performance
longfootbuddy 11 months ago
@longfootbuddy well it makes plenty of sense coming from judas, after betraying jesus he kinda reconsiders whether jesus was the real deal, and also illustrated a point of view of many civillians at the time
femaleanimelover 10 months ago 2
this version is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY better than the 2000 version. i like the way judas is depictedin this version better, as a conflicted man who struggles with his choices instead of a heartless cruel monster
JRYStudios1 11 months ago 11
@JRYStudios1 i think judas was an evil and confused man that realized his error in the end...much like most people in the world
longfootbuddy 11 months ago
@JRYStudios1
Oh, I don't that the other one in the 2000 version wasn't such a "heartless cruel monster" as all that. The moments when they look into each other's eyes: One does see a conflicted man who struggles with his choices.
ndrussiangerman1 4 months ago
I love the song, i just hate how it comes to an end so fast :/
hrvggz 11 months ago
amazing musical :')
ByeByeRocky 1 year ago
@ByeByeRocky yes i done this one as a kid one time and it was the funnest show ever
lynnbelford217 11 months ago
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is classic battle of the man vs the powerful govermnet...Jesus won
Syzygy60 1 year ago
Be Love!!!!
0liveirahug0 1 year ago
i chose the Christ Door!!! lol
LoveJoyPeaceComfort 1 year ago
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Yeah!!!! Jesus Christ, THE LORD THY GOD!
LoveJoyPeaceComfort 1 year ago
ExcELLeNT!! many thanksssssss
MichaelDinaswirled 1 year ago
I think the Oriiginal LP is and always will be better sung than the movie version.
jbarron1964 1 year ago
I saw this movie 14 times when it first came out, I was about 13
ad another dozen times later in life I am 50 now, know every word
probably the best opera rock ever written, saw it Live with the late Carl Anderson
and Ted Nesley in Austin, TX Fantastic !!!
papitoz100 1 year ago
U got to love the lyrics...
Buddha, was he where it's at? Is he where you are?
Could Mohammed move a mountain, or was that just PR?
papitoz100 1 year ago
Jesus wiped the floor with those liars lol
LoveJoyPeaceComfort 1 year ago
nein..........tut ihm nicht weh..............
Apriljahr 1 year ago
To sherylinturngek: I hear what you're saying but this is a musical, it's art. This was a great movie and I've loved it since it first came out. It's not the exact story of Jesus (and yes, I'm a believer) but an intrepetation of the writers aka the artists who created this.
thecatdancer1 1 year ago