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    Martin Scorsese Didn’t Consider ‘The Final Temptation of Christ’ Would ‘Ever Get Made’ Till Oliver Stone Confirmed Him Willem Dafoe in ‘Platoon’

    David GroveBy David GroveMarch 29, 20253 Mins Read
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    Martin Scorsese Didn’t Consider ‘The Final Temptation of Christ’ Would ‘Ever Get Made’ Till Oliver Stone Confirmed Him Willem Dafoe in ‘Platoon’
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    The trials Martin Scorsese went by means of to make his Nineteen Eighties ardour undertaking “The Final Temptation of Christ” are properly publicized, however a brand new element has been dropped at mild that proves how important neighborhood is to cinema’s legacy. Throughout a latest post-screening dialogue at Anthology Movie Archives in New York, Scorsese and star Willem Dafoe went into element on how lengthy the movie took to come back collectively and the way the ultimate step has some assist from “Platoon” author/director Oliver Stone.

    Scorsese shared that he’d begun efforts to adapt Nikos Kazantzakis’ controversial novel in 1983, however mentioned, “By the point 1987 got here round, I didn’t consider it may ever get made.” His principal hang-up was that he struggled to search out an actor who would tackle this difficult portrayal of Jesus Christ. Fortunately, his man got here to him after screening a brand new movie from Stone, his former pupil.

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    Martin Scorsese at the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party held at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 10, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty Images)

    “I used to be an teacher at NYU in 1969, 1970, and he was in my class. That’s the place I do know him from,” mentioned Scorsese (as per The Movie Stage). Of seeing “Platoon” for the primary time, which options one in every of Dafoe’s most iconic performances, he added, “So he’s going to point out me his movie and this man’s in it [gesturing to Dafoe]. And I mentioned, ‘What about him? That is good.’ And he mentioned, ‘Sure.’”

    Getting a “sure” from an actor to play Jesus was no small feat. Others, similar to Aidan Quinn, had thought of it, however getting a dedication proved a problem. With Dafoe instantly agreeing, Scorsese knew he’d lastly discovered some momentum on the undertaking.

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    “The important thing was, he was gonna play Jesus. I had seen ‘To Reside and Die in LA’ and I feel we screened ‘Platoon,’ and we met and we talked, and he truly mentioned he would do it,” mentioned Scorsese. He added later, “It sounds easy, however it took years.”

    From Dafoe’s perspective, he by no means even dreamed of being taken severely for the half, regardless of lots of his friends making inroads to assert it.

    “Everybody I do know goes up for it. No person’s speaking to me,” he mentioned at Anthology Movie Archives. “And I feel, ‘Okay, okay, I get it. This isn’t for me.’”

    Nonetheless, years after the preliminary casting search, at a time when Dafoe discovered himself distant from Hollywood or New York, he bought a name he by no means anticipated to come back.

    “I used to be educating in Massachusetts and staying at a really humble, mild mattress and breakfast,” mentioned Dafoe. “There was no phone within the room and the woman [at the front desk] mentioned, ‘Hey, I bought a name and there’s a message that Martin Scorsese desires to speak to you.’ And I assumed, ‘What about?’”

    The remainder, as they are saying, is historical past. With the assistance of agent Mike Ovitz, Scorsese was in a position to safe a small price range for the movie and he was lastly in a position to carry his imaginative and prescient to the display screen in 1988.



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