History Film / TheYoungMessiah

** Satan showing Jesus Jerusalem on top of a hill foreshadows the temptation of Christ.

%% * IncorruptiblePurePureness

%% * Jesus

%%* BlindSeer

* AdultFear: Mary and Joseph try to keep Jesus' supernatural origin a secret, for his own protection.

''The Young Messiah'' is a 2016 [[Literature/TheBible Biblical]] drama about UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} as a young boy. It is based on the Creator/AnneRice novel ''Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt''. It begins with Jesus and his family in Egypt, having fled there after Jesus was born, to escape Herod's slaughter of all the male infants in Judea. When Jesus is seven years old, they travel back to Mary and Joseph's home town of Nazareth and try to resume their old life, but they must deal with the challenges of raising a child who has supernatural powers and has a special destiny that not even he is fully aware of yet. The film also stars Creator/SeanBean as a Roman soldier named Severus, who is tasked by Herod's son with finding and killing the child they missed seven years ago.

%% * BlindSeer

* WouldHurtAChild: Severus has one of his men grab a young girl [[NeckLift by her throat]] to force villagers to give up Jesus's name. He also participated in the slaughter of the Jewish babies in Bethlehem seven years ago.

* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Jesus' uncle Cleopas coughs a lot, and is getting worse. [[spoiler: Subverted; he is eventually healed by Jesus.]]

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* HitmanWithAHeart: Severus [[spoiler: is unable to bring himself to kill young Jesus when he gets the chance.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: After Severus [[spoiler: lies and reports that he has killed young Jesus]], Herod, who was rather unhinged to begin with, starts ranting and having hallucinations of snakes in his bed. An unusual example, in that Herod has a breakdown even though, as far as he knows, his plan has succeeded.

''The Young Messiah'' is a 2016 [[Literature/TheBible Biblical]] drama about {{Jesus}} as a young boy. It is based on the Creator/AnneRice novel ''Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt''. It begins with Jesus and his family in Egypt, having fled there after Jesus was born, to escape Herod's slaughter of all the male infants in Judea. When Jesus is seven years old, they travel back to Mary and Joseph's home town of Nazareth and try to resume their old life, but they must deal with the challenges of raising a child who has supernatural powers and has a special destiny that not even he is fully aware of yet. The film also stars Creator/SeanBean as a Roman soldier named Severus [[spoiler: who amazingly, [[ChronicallyKilledActor does not die]],]] who is tasked by Herod's son with finding and killing the child they missed seven years ago.

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* MakeAnExampleOfThem: The Romans routinely crucify rebellious Jews by the side of the road, for everyone to see, and it's implied that they are not above punishing completely innocent people to keep them all submissive.

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: The man who gives Jesus a toy camel goes to Herod with information about Jesus, hoping to get a reward. Herod has him crucified instead, but it's less because the man had [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived his usefulness]], and more because Herod is just psychotic.

* VillainousBreakdown: After Severus [[spoiler: lies and reports that he has killed young Jesus]], Herod, who was rather unhinged to begin with, starts ranting and imagining that there are snakes in his bed. An unusual example, in that Herod thought his plan had succeeded, but he still had the breakdown.

** Jesus visits visits the temple marketplace and sets a dove free, foreshadowing his cleansing of the temple.

* CoolOldLady: Sarah, a villager from Nazareth, single-handedly fends off a squad of Roman soldiers intent on punishing a few innocent Jews to set an example, by giving them refreshments.

* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Jesus' uncle Cleopas coughs a lot, and is getting worse. [[spoiler: He is eventually healed by Jesus, though.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: After Severus [[spoiler: lies and reports that he has killed young Jesus]], Herod, who was rather unhinged to begin with, starts ranting and imagining that there are snakes in his bed.

* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Severus is clearly haunted by his participation in the slaughter of all the male Jewish babies seven years ago.

%% * AllOfTheOtherReindeer

* TheChosenOne: Mary and Joseph know Jesus is the son of God, but they're not sure exactly what his destiny is. Young Jesus is trying to figure it out what God's will for him is, too.

* BibleTimes: Takes place in 1st century Palestine.

%% * ChekhovsGun
* CoolOldLady: Sarah, a villager from Nazareth, single-handedly fends off a squad of Roman soldiers intent on punishing a few Jews just to set an example, by standing up to them and giving them wine and cakes.

%% * LargeHam

%% * RewardedAsATraitorDeserves

%% * VillainousBreakdown: After Severus [[spoiler: lies and reports that he has killed young Jesus]], Herod, who was rather unhinged to begin with, starts ranting and imagining that there are snakes in his bed.

* AssholeVictim: Eleazer, an old Jewish boy, bullies Jesus, and is killed by Satan in order to frame Jesus. [[spoiler: Jesus brings him back to life later.]]

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%% * AssholeVictim

%% * CoolOldLady

* Foreshadowing: Several, for events that don't happen in this film, but during the life of the adult Jesus.

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%% * AdultFear

%% * AllLovingHero

%% * BibleTimes

%% * TheChosenOne

%% * DenOfIniquity

%% * IncurableCoughOfDeath

%% * TheseHandsHaveKilled

''The Young Messiah'' is a 2016 [[Literature/TheBible Biblical]] drama about {{Jesus}} as a young boy. It is based on the Creator/AnneRice novel ''Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt''. It begins with Jesus and his family in Egypt, having fled there after Jesus was born, to escape Herod's slaughter of all the male infants in Judea. When Jesus is seven years old, they travel back to Mary and Joseph's home town of Nazareth and try to resume their old life, but they must deal with the challenges of raising a child who has supernatural powers and has a special destiny that not even he is fully aware of yet. The film also stars Creator/SeanBean as a Roman soldier [[spoiler: who amazingly, [[ChronicallyKilledActor does not die]],]] who is tasked by Herod's son with finding and killing the child they missed seven years ago.