The Last Supper (Leonardo da Vinci) contributed to its refusal by the Vatican who called it "blasphemous." In Norman Jewison's 1973 film version of "Jesus Christ Superstar", in the Last Supper sequence, Jesus and the 12 apostles briefly mimic the posture of each character in Da Vinci's painting The painting is parodied in Mel Brooks's movie "History of the World, Part I", making Leonardo a contemporary of Jesus. It is also parodied in the original movie "MASH", in the scene where Hawkeye Pierce stages a "last supper" for Walt (Painless) Waldowski before his planned suicide. The various doctors, all in surgical scrubs, pose in imitation of
Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci (1939) other men survived following a 50-day ordeal on a liferaft. In April 1943 "Leonardo da Vinci" sank three vessels in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Durban. After sinking four more ships, on 22 May 1943 "Leonardo da Vinci" unwisely signalled its intention to head for Bordeaux on completion of its patrol. Its position having been fixed by direction-finding, on 23 May the destroyer and the frigate (both escorts to convoys WS-30 and KMF-15) subjected the submarine to an intense depth charge attack and sank it west of Vigo at an estimated position of . There were no survivors.