Movies/Scenes Representing the
Entry Into Jerusalem/
Palm Sunday story
- Deep Impact (1998)
- How about films which illustrate what the entry into Jerusalem must have felt like to the Jewish and Roman authorities ?- e.g. Independence day - the arrival of the alien ships. Deep Impact - the impending disaster. (submitted by Anne Gordon)
- Contact (1997)
- Ellie is welcomed back from her "journey" as a hero, but then becomes the object of an interrogative power struggle to discover (and *own*) "what happened."
- Independence Day (1996)
- How about films which illustrate what the entry into Jerusalem must have felt like to the Jewish and Roman authorities ?- e.g. Independence day - the arrival of the alien ships. Deep Impact - the impending disaster. (submitted by Anne Gordon)
- The Shawshank Redemption
(1994)
- The protagonist is accepted by the Warden when he needs him but has a fall from grace in the Wardens eyes when he challenges the status quo. (submitted by Chandler)
- Forrest Gump (1987)
- Lieutenant Dan talks about coming home from Vietnam a hero and then being pushed aside and even persecuted by folks who were protesting the war. Assumes a crucified Christ pose.
- Out of Africa (1985)
- Karen rides into the camp at the front to bring supplies to her husband. She has just killed the lions which attacking the oxen, and she is dirty and disheveled. The crowd parts for her, looking on with a mixture of awe and horror. (DVD ch 9)
- Indiana Jones and the
Temple of Doom (1984)
- If the church is celebrating the Palm Sunday triumphal entry into Jerusalem, how about the scene from the end of the Indiana Jones film: "The Temple of Doom", scene at the end of the film, where all the children who have been released from slavery in a subteranean mine, come rushing into the city, are greeted jubilant parents, and Indiana Jones receives the welcome of a conquering hero?" Here we have the joy of release from slavery into freedom, and not just the promise of it! (Dave McGaffic, Orange City United Methodist Church)
- Star Wars (1977)
- The end of the movie - the heroes acclaimed (submitted by Ann Fontaine)
- El Cid (1961)
- El Cid's body strapped to horse , riding out against the enemy - gives hope to his army, and scatters enemies ! (submitted by Anne Gordon)
