#jcs 1973

[airitree]

Judas no....

[tonicitaa]

hello jesus christ superstar fandom 🫡

[raskti]

The kiss

Sources: The Bible, Swedish translation(1917) - translated version gt / Judas Iscariot and others by Leonid Andreynev / Judas Iscariot - What can be said for him? by Mark Rutherford "Pages from a Journal with other papers" / Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

[patheticblorbloscholar]

The universal Judas expression

[hobgoblinns]

"judas, must you betray me... with a kiss?"

[platadesangre]

the classic jcs love triangle

(i need to stop drawing on the ipad's note app)

[feerz]

Letterboxd reviews simping over Carl Anderson's Judas

[a-trick-or-two-with-lepers]

[2017gripe]

does he love me too??? does he care for me???

[a-good-two]

one of his most inspiring quotes

[tonicitaa]

me listening to the same songs on repeat (but in different versions!):

[solarflicker]

[pepegle]

[hobgoblinns]

you'll be so sorry when i'm gone.

CARL ANDERSON as JUDAS ISCARIOT JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (1973) dir. Norm Jewison

[platadesangre]

the virgin "hang on looooooooord, we're gonna fight for you" 1973 peter vs the chad "YOU, HANG ON LORD! WE'RE GONNA FIGHT FOR YOU! NO!" and then falls face first on the floor 2000 peter

[disregardcanon]

there are so many moments in jesus christ superstar that i LOVE, but one of my absolute favorites is the way that jesus backtracks in gethsemane

"why, then, am i scared to finish what i started? what YOU started. i didn't start it." jesus in jesus christ superstar is bearing the weight of everyone's expectations and just. doing his best to try to manage them. judas wants him to stay grounded in his humanity and the opinions and thoughts of people on the ground. respectability politics is how you stay under the radar long enough to make lasting change. make the money to give to the poor, keep our reputations up strongly, we can make a real impact here and now if we don't get too loud.

simon wants him to rise up and lead a revolution. the people in need want him to heal all of them right now immediately even though he's just one guy with only so much ability and time and focus.

mary magdalene wants him to chill out and let her take care of him. peter and the background apostle gang want to be his posse as he gets big and use him to get big and famous. "then when we retire we can write the gospels and they'll still talk about us when we've died"

herod wants him to do his magic as a party trick to gain his salvation, as though that could save him

pilate wants him to deny what he's being accused of so that pilate "can save him", as though that was an option.

and then, of course, we have the absent god the father wanting him to die "far too keen on where and how, not so hot on why". and in the 1973 movie version we get this montage of different images of the crucifixion that implies god sent him this vision of how impactful his death will be, but he still doesn't necessarily tell him WHY, and in other versions there's no evidence that jesus gets... any answers. whatsoever.

different characters TRY to be attentive to his needs and thoughts during the musical, but even those who try very hard (mm, judas, pilate) just.. can't get through. because even if jesus told them.... there isn't anything any of them can do. the story was written long before any of them got here. and there are no answers left in its wake