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''Jesus of Montreal'' is a 1989 French Canadian film about an actor, Daniel, hired to modernize a passion play. He teams up with an actress turned single mother named Constance, and together they round up a small group of players. Although the play turns out to be a hit, it's shut down by the church for being too controversial, and in the eyes of the church, blasphemous.
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''Jesus of Montreal'' is a 1989 French Canadian film about an actor, Daniel, Daniel (Creator/LothaireBluteau), hired to modernize a passion play. He teams up with an actress turned single mother named Constance, and together they round up a small group of players. Although the play turns out to be a hit, it's shut down by the church for being too controversial, and in the eyes of the church, blasphemous.
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* ArtisticLicenceGeography: Daniel leaves a hospital and makes his way to Place-Saint-Henri metro station. There was no hospital near there at the time the film was made or set.
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** When Daniel is being prepped by the doctors, he's laid out with his arms akimbo, as if he's been nailed to a cross.
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* InTheStyleOf: InUniverse: When Father Leclerc tries to get the other actors (without Daniel) to put on the play with the original script that had been done before, they make fun of him by performing it briefly, among other ways, as if it was a melodrama, an [[MethodActing Actor's Studio production]], and something from the Noh theatre.
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* InTheStyleOf: InUniverse: When Father Leclerc tries to get the other actors (without Daniel) to put on the play with the original script that had been done before, they make fun of him by performing it briefly, among other ways, as if it was a melodrama, an [[MethodActing Actor's Studio production]], and something from the Noh Kabuki theatre.
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* RousingSpeech: When the others are despondent after it looks like Father Leclerc isn't going to let them perform anymore, Mirielle gives one of these, reminding them she gave up the most, and that they can't quit.
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* TakeThat: Canadian public hospitals don't come off well here - when Daniel initially gets taken to one of them after being hurt, it's crowded, and the staff are clearly overworked and impatient. The Jewish hospital Daniel gets taken to after collapsing a second time is run better, but by then, it's too late for Daniel.
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** [[AvengersAssemble Daniel recruiting Constance, Martin, Mirielle, and Rene]] is similar to Jesus recruiting the disciples.
** Daniel is a FriendToAllChildren (at least, to Constance's daughter) just as Jesus was.
** Daniel is a FriendToAllChildren (at least, to Constance's daughter) just as Jesus was.
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** When Daniel is having dinner with his fellow cast members for the first time, Rene warns that performing a tragedy sometimes leads to trouble.
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* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: When Rene warns the others in the cast they might run into trouble performing a tragedy (see {{Foreshadowing}} above), Daniel responds, "[[Creator/DorisDay Que sera, sera]]", and Constance, Martin and Rene continue by each saying a line from the chorus. Mirielle, who doesn't recognize the song, merely says, "Cha-cha-cha", and the others laugh.
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** The other actor greeting Daniel backstage at the beginning (see DecoyProtagonist above) recalls John the Baptist telling others Jesus is the one to follow.
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** The other actor After the play with Pascal is done, a woman ad exec tells Richard, "I want his (Pascal's) head" (she clarifies she means for an upcoming ad campaign), just as Salome (at the urging of her mother) asks her father Herod for John the Baptist's head.
** Pascal greeting Daniel backstage at the beginning (see DecoyProtagonist above) recalls John the Baptist telling others Jesus is the one to follow.
** Pascal greeting Daniel backstage at the beginning (see DecoyProtagonist above) recalls John the Baptist telling others Jesus is the one to follow.
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* RunningGag: The radio host and the TV host each say the same thing when seeing the ShowWithinAShow at the beginning and the PassionPlay - the former mentions how much she cried, while the latter says, "I liked it...very much."
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* StylisticSuck: The original version of the PassionPlay that Father Leclerc hires Daniel to modernize. It's nothing more than the actors declaiming the text in a dull monotone.
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* InTheStyleOf: InUniverse: When Father Leclerc tries to get the other actors (without Daniel) to put on the play with the original script that had been done before, they make fun of him by performing it briefly, among other ways, as if it was a melodrama, an [[MethodActing Actor's Studio production]], and something from the Noh theatre.
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* ShoutOutToShakespeare: Rene at one point during the PassionPlay quotes from Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'s famous monologue from Act III, scene 1 ("To die, to sleep, to sleep! perchance to dream"). Also, the priest who asks Daniel to put on the play, at one point, recites the famous speech that opens ''Theatre/RichardIII'' ("Now is the winter of our discontent").
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* ShoutOutToShakespeare: Rene at one point during the PassionPlay quotes from Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'s famous monologue from Act III, scene 1 ("To die, to sleep, to sleep! perchance to dream"). Also, the priest who asks Daniel to put on the play, Father Leclerc, at one point, recites the famous speech that opens ''Theatre/RichardIII'' ("Now is the winter of our discontent").
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* GetOut: Daniel ends up yelling this to Jerzy and the beer company representatives.
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* GetOut: Daniel ends up yelling this to Jerzy and the beer company representatives.
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** The radio show host and TV host give two completely different accounts of Daniel's history, which parallels the fact the Gospels tell little of Jesus' life between his birth and when he first started preaching.
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** Finally, as seen under MessianicArthetype below, Daniel dies, but is "resurrected" in that his organs are used as transplants, and his friends set up a theater in his name.
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** Finally, as seen under MessianicArthetype MessianicArchetype below, Daniel dies, but is "resurrected" in that his organs are used as transplants, and his friends set up a theater in his name.
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* ActingForTwo: InUniverse; Constance, Martin, Mirielle and Rene all play various roles during their production of the PassionPlay.
* BookEnds: The two women sopranos who are singing at the church during the opening credits (and who also appear auditioning for the beer commercial Mirielle goes to) appear at the end, singing inside a subway station.
* BookEnds: The two women sopranos who are singing at the church during the opening credits (and who also appear auditioning for the beer commercial Mirielle goes to) appear at the end, singing inside a subway station.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: There are quite a few parallels drawn between the Gospels and Daniel's life.
* FatalMethodActing: In-universe.
* FatalMethodActing: In-universe.
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* DecoyProtagonist: The movie opens with a ShowWithinAShow (dealing with Jesus, naturally), and we're set up to believe Pascal, the star of the play, whom everyone praises, will be the main character. Then, backstage, Pascal sees Daniel, says, "[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything There's a real actor]],", goes to Daniel, and embraces him. Daniel becomes the focus of the story from then on.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: There are quite a few parallels drawn between the Gospels and Daniel'slife.
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** The other actor greeting Daniel backstage at the beginning (see DecoyProtagonist above) recalls John the Baptist telling others Jesus is the one to follow.
** Daniel trashing the beer commercial set is similar to Jesus clearing of the money changers in the temple.
** The judge at Daniel's hearing (see CreatorCameo above) is similar to Pontius Pilate.
** Richard telling Daniel of all the things he can line up for him if he's willing to play ball is similar to Satan tempting Jesus in the desert.
** Finally, as seen under MessianicArthetype below, Daniel dies, but is "resurrected" in that his organs are used as transplants, and his friends set up a theater in his name.
* GetOut: Daniel ends up yelling this to Jerzy and the beer company representatives.
* FatalMethodActing:In-universe.In-universe; when Daniel is on the cross during the last performance, and he's knocked over by an audience member pushing the head security guard of the church into the back of the cross (see TapOnTheHead below), he has to be taken to the hospital. At the hospital, Daniel seems to miraculously recover, but when Constance and Mirielle take him to the subway station, Daniel starts acting as if he is Jesus, speaking to the startled people waiting for the train, and eventually collapses. Daniel then gets brought to a second hospital, and he isn't so lucky.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the library, when Daniel is doing research, a library assistant comes up and asks Daniel, "Are you looking for Jesus?" When he nods, she responds, "It is He who will find you."
* HidingBehindReligion: Father Leclerc, the priest who hires Daniel is [[HotForPreacher sleeping with Constance]], yet he's the one who criticizes with the way Daniel has updated the PassionPlay, and he won't help the other actors out because he's afraid of what the church will do to him.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: There are quite a few parallels drawn between the Gospels and Daniel's
** The other actor greeting Daniel backstage at the beginning (see DecoyProtagonist above) recalls John the Baptist telling others Jesus is the one to follow.
** Daniel trashing the beer commercial set is similar to Jesus clearing of the money changers in the temple.
** The judge at Daniel's hearing (see CreatorCameo above) is similar to Pontius Pilate.
** Richard telling Daniel of all the things he can line up for him if he's willing to play ball is similar to Satan tempting Jesus in the desert.
** Finally, as seen under MessianicArthetype below, Daniel dies, but is "resurrected" in that his organs are used as transplants, and his friends set up a theater in his name.
* GetOut: Daniel ends up yelling this to Jerzy and the beer company representatives.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the library, when Daniel is doing research, a library assistant comes up and asks Daniel, "Are you looking for Jesus?" When he nods, she responds, "It is He who will find you."
* HidingBehindReligion: Father Leclerc, the priest who hires Daniel is [[HotForPreacher sleeping with Constance]], yet he's the one who criticizes with the way Daniel has updated the PassionPlay, and he won't help the other actors out because he's afraid of what the church will do to him.
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* MessianicArchetypeMessianicArchetype: Daniel becomes one over the course of the movie, not just in the way he comes to act offstage, but also because after he dies, he's "resurrected" in the fact his eyes and heart are transplanted into other people, and a theater is set up in his name by the others, with the help of Richard, the lawyer.
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* ShoutOutToShakespeare: Rene at one point during the PassionPlay quotes from Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'s famous monologue from Act III, scene 1 ("To die, to sleep, to sleep! perchance to dream").
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* ReassignedToAntarctica: This is what Father Leclerc is afraid will happen to him if he backs Daniel and the others; that he'll be sent to [[PlaceWorseThanDeath Winnipeg]] to a parish of old people.
* ShoutOutToShakespeare: Rene at one point during the PassionPlay quotes from Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'s famous monologue from Act III, scene 1 ("To die, to sleep, to sleep! perchance to dream"). Also, the priest who asks Daniel to put on the play, at one point, recites the famous speech that opens ''Theatre/RichardIII'' ("Now is the winter of our discontent").
* TapOnTheHead: Averted; when a big, bull-shouldered audience member at the last performance is grappling with a security guard at the church who's restraining Mirielle, the head security guard hits the man in the back of the head with his flashlight. Unfortunately for the security guard, that only seems to annoy the man.
* ShoutOutToShakespeare: Rene at one point during the PassionPlay quotes from Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'s famous monologue from Act III, scene 1 ("To die, to sleep, to sleep! perchance to dream"). Also, the priest who asks Daniel to put on the play, at one point, recites the famous speech that opens ''Theatre/RichardIII'' ("Now is the winter of our discontent").
* TapOnTheHead: Averted; when a big, bull-shouldered audience member at the last performance is grappling with a security guard at the church who's restraining Mirielle, the head security guard hits the man in the back of the head with his flashlight. Unfortunately for the security guard, that only seems to annoy the man.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Daniel is so outraged by how Mirielle, and other actresses, are treated at the beer commercial audition, he slugs the woman in charge.
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* ShoutOutToShakespeare: Rene at one point during the PassionPlay quotes from {{Hamlet}}'s famous monologue from Act III, scene 1 ("To die, to sleep, to sleep! perchance to dream").
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* ShoutOutToShakespeare: Rene at one point during the PassionPlay quotes from {{Hamlet}}'s Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'s famous monologue from Act III, scene 1 ("To die, to sleep, to sleep! perchance to dream").
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* LoopingLines: One of the actors is introduced while looping lines for a porno. Halfway through, he cries out that he's been reading the lines into the wrong microphone and he's told that it doesn't matter and that no one will notice.
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It was produced by the Creator/NationalFilmBoardOfCanada.
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* MeaningfulName: Daniel Coulombe. "Daniel" was a Hebrew prophet, and "Coulombe" comes from the Latin "columbus" meaning "dove".
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* TrueBlueFemininity: Both Constance and Mireille wear blue for a good portion of the film. The association with the Virgin Mary was undoubtedly intentional.
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''Jesus of Montreal'' is a 1989 French Canadian film about an actor, Daniel, hired to modernize a passion play. He teams up with an actress turned single mother named Mirielle, and together they round up a small group of players. Although the play turns out to be a hit, it's shut down by the church for being too controversial, and in the eyes of the church, blasphemous.
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''Jesus of Montreal'' is a 1989 French Canadian film about an actor, Daniel, hired to modernize a passion play. He teams up with an actress turned single mother named Mirielle, Constance, and together they round up a small group of players. Although the play turns out to be a hit, it's shut down by the church for being too controversial, and in the eyes of the church, blasphemous.
