{"id":1385,"date":"2009-02-16T12:13:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T19:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/02\/the-next-temptation-of-marty\/"},"modified":"2009-02-16T12:13:26","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T19:13:26","slug":"the-next-temptation-of-marty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/16\/the-next-temptation-of-marty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Temptation Of Marty"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Times South Africa<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Scorsese plans film on Christian persecution<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AFP<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

TOKYO \u2014 Oscar-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese plans to adapt for the screen a novel on Japan\u2019s brutal persecution of Christians during the 17th century, according to a museum.<\/p>\n

The 1966 novel “Chinmoku” (“Silence”) by Shusaku Endo tells the story of a young idealistic Jesuit priest from Portugal who lands on the shores of Nagasaki in southern Japan — then the only region open to foreigners.<\/p>\n

The novel depicts the severe persecution Japan then inflicted on converts to Christianity, many of whom were impoverished villagers and went into hiding.<\/p>\n

Academy Award-winning art director Dante Ferretti, who is close to Scorsese, and producer E. Bennett Walsh this week visited the Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture to research the film.<\/p>\n

“They are going to make a movie and so they visited to research Japanese Christian history,” museum spokesman Koichiro Nishijima said.<\/p>\n

He said that the pair carefully studied a “fumie,” a metal plaque depicting Jesus Christ or the Virgin Mary that authorities would make people step on in order to weed out Christians.<\/p>\n

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