Interesting quotes from Schrader about transcendence over immanence -- I wonder if one reason his work with Scorsese is so powerful is because Marty is really an immanence (Catholic) guy -- and that tension between their two visions leads to particularly affecting film-making?
I think so! There’s a great bit in Richard Blake’s Afterimage where he suggests that Schrader included the scene of Jesus removing his heart and offering it to the disciples in The Last Temptation of Christ to tease Scorsese about transubstantiation
Interesting quotes from Schrader about transcendence over immanence -- I wonder if one reason his work with Scorsese is so powerful is because Marty is really an immanence (Catholic) guy -- and that tension between their two visions leads to particularly affecting film-making?
I think so! There’s a great bit in Richard Blake’s Afterimage where he suggests that Schrader included the scene of Jesus removing his heart and offering it to the disciples in The Last Temptation of Christ to tease Scorsese about transubstantiation