JC Superstar

[fahye]

'Tis the season, right?

No matter what sins or weird musicals Andrew Lloyd Webber has committed or will ever commit, I will always love him for this one. And this particular staging/movie is just brutally, jaw-droppingly well done. The music by itself is fantastic - add staging and choreography and acting and concept like this, and it becomes something phenomenal.





(What is actually quite amusing is how I went back and looked at the picspam that liminalliz did after seeing this, and we capped heaps of the same scenes. But THESE ARE THE GOOD ONES. And the not-really-important-but-HEY-LOOK-TONY-VINCENT! ones.)









For some reason I really enjoy the anachronism of Simon Zealotes having this tattoo.



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(HI TONY!)















Judas: No no. By all means, don't mind me. Continue molesting him.



Jesus: Gnnnfhwa?



Mary: Bastard.
Judas: Whore.
Mary: Whatever.
Jesus: ...I have a headache.



(sorry, sorry, I just find this scene highly amusing)









I came because I had to; I'm the one who saw.
Jesus can't control it like he did before.



This isn't blood money
It's a fee - nothing more







What if I just stayed here
And ruined your ambition -
Christ you deserve it

(Jesus - Peter - Judas. I can't even deal with how powerful that blocking is.)







Would I be more noticed than I ever was before?
Would the things I've said and done matter any more?



I will drink your cup of poison
Nail me to your cross and break me











I am a little disturbed by how Judas is suddenly Rodney McKay in this one







So Herod's all: I AM SUCH A PIMP.



Jesus: ....



Jesus: *trying not to laugh*





Christ, I'd sell out the nation,
For I have been saddled with the murder of you.



God, God I'm sick. I've been used,
And you knew all the time.
God, God I'll never ever know why you chose me for your crime.



omg with the PAINT on the HANDS. just. amazing. no better way to do the thirty-nine lashes.




Don't let me stop your great self-destruction.
Die if you want to, you misguided martyr.
I wash my hands of your demolition.

This show has THE best Pilate I have ever seen. Ambiguous and scared and amazing.



*FLAILS*



*AND SOME MORE*









~

*dead of aesthetics*

Comments

[skygiants]

. . . I have never seen the movie!version; only ever staged.

And now I really want to.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I was actually thinking about how much you & the other theatre-people on my flist would love it. The great thing about being in movie form, even though it was filmed on a stage, is the fact that you can see the actors' faces, and holy shit, can these people act. It's phenomenal.