And some countries banned the film sight unseen (it still can't be shown in the Philippines or Singapore). One French fundamentalist group launched Molotov cocktails into a Paris theater, injuring several patrons. The Vatican and numerous Christians took vocal issue with the extended sequence in which Jesus imagines an alternate life for himself (sun-dappled sex scenes included) with the prostitute Mary Magdalene. But this reimagining of Nikos Kazantzakis' speculative novel about the Son of God's human fallibility easily ascends to the top of our countdown due to the sheer furor it inspired worldwide.
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