critiquing cool hand luke

I have, for the longest time really been trying to look at Cool Hand Luke through some of the techniques and staregies that we have covered in class this semester. I have for even longer, absolutely loved this movie. I was devistated to hear of Paul Newman's death-truely one of America's greatest actors.

Now, this film has been scrutinized and analyzed thousands and thousands of times. Much of the information i want to talk about i myself have thought up, but a few things i was directed to see by others. I'm sure that many of these ideas are shared throughout the world so they are not entirely original, or that creative. But i still feel that this is a good movie that through it's many framing characteristics it can be seen as an absolutely great movie.

The major idea running through the film is that it is not only a story of Luke, but a story of Jesus.
There are many connecting themes for the sake of time i will only cover a few, and these don't really have a chronological order they simply just are.
A. In the beginning of the film, Luke is going around cutting off the heads of parking meters. Parking meters being a way of collecting taxes it can be viewed that this is symbolic of the biblical reference of the tax collectors as being sinners and jesus having quarrels with them.
B. Luke's mom's name is Arleta- possibly a mumbled country accent of Our Lady?
C. Luke mom speaks of his father in an ominous manner, and he replies that he would sure like to have met him, This is followed on numerous occasions of speaking to god in a familiar fashion, like referring to him as "old man"
D. Luke does the impossible, like jeus walking on water. luke does what no man can do: eat fifty eggs. After which he is sprawled out on the table in a crucifixion style manner.
E. he escapes and is beaten into submission, this could possibly be a metaphor for his initial death? because he is resurrected later when he steals the truck and so forth.
F. Dragline can be seen as a Judas character as he turns him in, an the other men can been seen as disciples, especially when they help him eat all the rice that he cannot finish, (body of christ) last supper type thing.
G. His name and prison number correlated to something in the directly to "nothing is impossible with god" but else where around that section of luke there is a passage about the "son of god" I think.
there are countless other example like temptations with the woman washing the car and so forth, too many to label. I just wanted to point out how this story could be read in different ways.