Lentorama 2014: We're Ready for Your Closeup, Your Holiness
Day 40: The Pope Must Diet!
So this is the film that gave me the idea for this whole thing. Robbie Coltrane (pre-Cracker and Hagrid) plays a less than exemplary priest who is accidentally named pope. He then has to deal with Vatican corruption, the Mafia, and the return of an old girlfriend.
The original name of the film, The Pope Must Die, generated some flack, resulting the the alternate title under which it was released in the US (with some posters adding a 't' in the shape of a cross, which undoubtedly cheesed off some of the same people).
That's it, thankfully. Surprising how many films mention the pope but don't actually have one in the film. On the plus side, I could have done this whole thing based on short films of popes shot in the silent era. Maybe I should have?
19 April 2014
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