He constructed a bunker beneath the house, and refused to send his son to the public school because they had "fucking Kwanzaa stuff" instead of a "Christ child on the lawn".
Holy Christ-on-a-pony is it annoying to be running-n-gunning, only to hear the Germans say, "Get him!" or "Vhere did zee American go?" Your comrades are equally tiresome.
On screen, I hung with a Christ figure called Eli; I had a same-sex lover and a boyfriend of a different race than mine; I threw bombs and walked along high wires.
But, when the sequence ended with a shot of Jackson in a Christ-on-the-Cross position, my heart sank.
It had a Christ on the Cross in relief on the stucco steeple.
Within the shop, he caught sight of oil paintings of mountains things yellowy and oozy with paint; a golden Ganesh; a Christ on a cross; a Rajasthani village woman.
In a sense, he's a Christ on the frontier, though he's a pagan rather than a Christian Christ; he knees at the cross of the living tree.
And as Easter's subversive message of the triumph of God's powerlessness over power faded into the background, the cross of Christ took on a new, and in many respects opposite, meaning.
A black sun shines down on a crucified Christ whose head is hidden.
He meets his partner's widow, a sculptor working on a lowering Christ figure, and tries to recuperate.
His "Jesus Mocked by Soldiers" (shown along with "Olympia" at the Salon) drew on Titian's "Christ Crowned with Thorns" at the Louvre, on Andrea del Sarto's frescoes at the Annunziata church in Florence and on a "Dead Christ" by Antonello da Messina in Venice.
