Tom Tykwer offers an odd-smelling twist on the Christ-figure.
Quote: >>Ecce homo is the Latin Vulgate's translation of the Greek
eido ho anthropos, which is what Pilate says when he presents the
scourged, thorn-crowned Jesus to the crowd in John 19.5. The term has
come to refer to any artistic work that depicts Jesus in a crown of
thorns, but one of the more famous versions of this scene is Antonio
Ciseri's Ecce Homo! We look from behind as Pilate presents Jesus to
the torture-seeking crowds. This is the scene Tom Tykwer echoes as he
introduces us to the murderous protagonist, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille,
in his latest film Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.<<
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