For a while, it looked like The Hunt had no future.īut now, like so many other movies that were controversial when they first came out, it’s widely and easily available for streaming, without any associated protest or resistance. Part of that is the inevitable process of time - yesterday’s content crisis is long forgotten because there are new outrages to navigate. But part of it is just the quiet self-selection of streaming movies. No one can tell if you’re at home on your own, watching movies that were picketed in theaters, booed at festivals, or pulled out of wide release because of the backlash. The Hunt is one such case - briefly the center of a firestorm, now all but forgotten, and easily accessible.
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And it’s neither the most fascinating controversial movie worth streaming, nor the most controversial. If you’re craving outcry and offense in cinema - or at least to see what’s been considered provocative and too hot for theaters in different eras - the films below are readily accessible. Once upon the late 1980s, Martin “Gangster Movies” Scorsese made one of his many enduring masterworks, The Last Temptation of Christ, and was rewarded for his efforts with death threats, accusations of blasphemy, and in 1988, a terrorist attack on a theater in Paris, which was set on fire by Catholic integralists while people sat inside and watched the film on screen. Scorsese weathered the storm as only a guy who has spent his life wrestling with his Catholic identity through filmmaking could, which is why MCU partisans coming after him for his comments on “cinema” were little more than a blip on his radar. The Last Temptation of Christ is just one of many movies about Jesus that’s ruffled Christian feathers - see also Monty Python’s comedy Life of Brian, similarly decried as blasphemous, and Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, which apart from being gorier than the average splatter film, also happens to be assertively anti-Semitic. Last Temptation remains the best of the ruckus-stirring Jesus films, which is why today it’s talked about with reverence instead of revulsion. The Last Temptation of Christ is streaming on Netflix. The Passion of the Christ is on Amazon Prime. Life of Brian is on both Netflix and Amazon.