Jesus Christ Superstar was originally a rock-opera play that was adapted to the movies in this 1973 film. The movie tells the tale of Judas Iscariot and Jesus Christ in the period of time soon before Jesus was crucified. The time period is not set in stone, as there are cars and guns in a story set thousands of years ago. The movie portrays Jesus Christ and his followers as hippies with the goal of spreading peace and being against the current government and it’s policies. Judas gets concerned that Jesus might be getting too far astray with all of his followers and thinks that maybe Jesus forgot what his mission was in the first place. Judas ends up giving away Jesus to the government who then kill Jesus. This movie is super corny. It has some very serious dialogue but at the same time it has Judas singing to a pair of guards who might kill him and has Jesus in the same scene as a tank. I actually really liked the movie, especially because corny movies such as Shaw Bros kung fu movies. Some of the messages in the movie were a little bit hard to understand in the movie because of all of the singing, but I actually learned a lot about Judas’s character. Judas is very close to Jesus and may have even been jealous that Jesus was giving more attention to people such as Mary than himself. We see how Jesus and Judas constantly fight in the movie and how Judas slowly loses faith in Jesus as a friend. We get an insiders view onto Judas, seeing how confused he is with Jesus wanting Judas to end up helping kill Jesus and unsure if Jesus is putting what matters ahead of everything he is doing right now. I felt sympathetic to Judas in the movie. Judas did not intend to kill Jesus and debated long and hard when making the decision to give Jesus away. He felt hurt but also was very confused in Jesus’s goals and policies which have apparently changed since Judas was with him. Jesus had some moments where he was very aggressive, such as when he yells at Judas or when at the market he breaks all of the stands containing things he finds to be wrong. Judas feels terrible about his decision and ends up killing himself in the end of the movie. Although Judas led to the death of Jesus, this movie made me think differently about the situation we read about in The Gospel of Judas. Judas and Jesus felt more like real people with real problems and feelings. I am still not sure completely why Judas gave Jesus away but now I think there must be more dialogue that has led to this happening than just what I have heard about.