The most entertaining scenario attributed to Christ in the gospels is the Jesus-cleansing-the-temple scene, A.K.A. the scene where he gets angry at the money-changers in the temple and throws them out.
Is that scene included in this film? I'd hate to wade all the way through this very long movie, just to try to find it.
No, there's no temple cleansing scene in this movie. The Greatest Story Ever Told has one, but this one has a fight with Barabbas's men and Roman Soldiers instead.
He who fights and runs away, lives to run away again!
That particular scene is included in "Jesus of Nazareth" with Robert Powell.
shareA temple scene wouldn't have fit the overall tone of the film which is to downplay Christ's conflict with the Jewish authorities. The only concession to the clashes is when Caiaphas disdainfully notes Christ's association with "tax collectors and harlots" and the whole matter of Jesus first being betrayed to the Jewish authorities and being arrested for blasphemy is treated more as an afterthought. It's made out to be an obsession of Pilate's and Roman authority (the absurdity of this premise becomes apparent when they decide to leave in Pilate sending Jesus to Antipas, which requires Pilate to not be aware that Jesus is from Galilee, which doesn't fit with how they're depicting Pilate up to this point in the film!). That's because the simplicity of the narrative presented here is to treat the matter of Jewish subjugation by Roman authority and thus, Jesus is the better way against Rome than that of Barabbas.
shareI personally enjoy the temple cleansing scene from Jesus Christ Superstar. But I don't think it makes it very clear that they are in a temple, until he starts singing, which makes you wonder at first why Jesus is so angry...
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