“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. Some men, you just can’t reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way
he wants it... well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.”—The
Captain
Along
with Luke being a war hero in the film also comes the notion that he is a
Christ-like figure. In the scene
where Luke says he can eat 50 eggs, and then does, he is laid out on a table
after completing the task in the exact way that Jesus was crucified on the
cross.
In the
final shot of the film, as Dragline is reminiscing about Luke to his comrades,
the camera pulls back from an intersection of a dusty dirty road in the shape
of a cross, just as the torn picture of Luke and two girls reappears again,
this time pieced back together, with the torn outlines also looking like a
cross. The biblical reference made
here is pretty straight forward, alluding to the fact that Luke had to die for
his sins, but also for the sins of his friends.
“I don’t care if it rains or
freezes long as I got my plastic Jesus sitting on the dashboard of my car. “Going
90 I ain’t scary long as I got the Virgin Mary assuring me that I won’t go to
hell,” Those are the first two lines of song, and are quite beautiful, and
also allude once again to him as a religious figure.
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