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''Jesus Christ Superstar'' almost continuously tours around the world, usually with [[Ted Neeley]] playing Jesus. He played this role in the 1973 movie.
''Jesus Christ Superstar'' almost continuously tours around the world, usually with [[Ted Neeley]] playing Jesus. He played this role in the 1973 movie.
== 1973 movie ==
The purpose of the 1973 movie was presenting Jesus's last days from the point of view of [[Judas Iscariotes]].<ref>Director's comments, in the movie's DVD</ref>. Despite this unusual point of view, the movie is quite faithful to the Scripture, with a few exceptions that can be attributed to simplification (for example, Pilate's wife's dream is attributed to Pontius Pilate) and Judas's inhability to recognize Jesus as the Messiah.
There are a few musics, with different lyrics that apply to them. Some musics are even played with opposing lyrics, showing the turnover of Jerusalem's population from the devotion to King Jesus to the disappointment when he didn't wage war on the Romans.
Since we see Jesus throught Judas's eyes, he does not perform any miracles, and, before his arrest, the main character of the movie is Judas.
The movie changes dramatically in tone during Jesus's arrest. This is the only part where the ''blindness'' of Judas's point of view is lifted, and we see God answering Jesus's question (''why should I die?''), by showing Jesus the iconography of Jesus crucifixion through the centuries that would come.
The film mixes ancient and modern images. The romans are shown wearing german-like helmets and machine guns - again, from the point of view of Judas, they correspond to a "universal oppressor". The temple of Jerusalem looks like a tourist spot, with street vendors selling souvenirs to tourists. Herod's court looks like a 1970s gay party.