More on Gibson's 'The Passion'

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Dad sent me a couple articles over the last few days looking at Mel Gibson’s “The Passion“, lately seeming to be the most controversial religious film that almost no one’s seen since Dogma was in pre-release. Anyway, if you’re at all interested in the film or the controversy around it, both of these are worth a look.

‘You Can’t Whitewash the Events of the Bible’: New Testament scholar Darrell Bock recently spoke with Beliefnet about Mel Gibson’s film “The Passion,” which dramatizes the last hours of Jesus. Critics–including Catholic biblical scholars and the Anti-Defamation League–have raised concerns about the movie’s historicity and its portrayal of Jewish authorities. Bock saw a rough cut of the film in late August.

What Mel Missed: Most of us have yet to see Mel Gibson’s “The Passion,” but we’ve gained one sure impression: it’s bloody. “I wanted to bring you there,” Gibson told Peter J. Boyer in September 15’s New Yorker magazine. “I wanted to be true to the Gospels. That has never been done before.”

4 thoughts on “More on Gibson's 'The Passion'”

  1. It’s a movie…
    Mel Gibson is an actor…
    Hollywood is a business…

    How can people trash a movie that hasn’t even been released yet?
    Only those that has seen the pre-release have any right to discuss what they saw, but even then…
    The movie could change quite a bit after more editing.

    Listen up people.
    If the idea of the movie sounds good to you, go see it.
    If it sounds bad to you, don’t go see it.

    Mel Gibson has stated he is a devout Catholic and the movie is true to his faith. OK fine. So the ones that should get the final say is the Catholic Church (not Catholics in general) The Church! And if they like what they see… They can make him a saint. If they don’t they should excommunicate him. Or what ever punishment THEY see fit.

    For the rest of us.
    If the idea of the movie sounds good to you, go see it.
    If it sounds bad to you, don’t go see it.

    Hollywood is a business, and that business is making money. (and you thought I would say movies) Good movies ie: Movies that make money! Are followed by part 2 part 3 and on and on, till they become bad movies ie: movies that don’t make money.

    Bad movies and I say it again (movies that don’t make money ) are sent direct to video and are never seen or heard from again. The Stars, The Directors and Producers of bad movies are punished in the business by not getting parts in other movies or not getting money to make other movies. Just like any other business if you screw up and lose money you become…Say it with me….. Unemployed.

    So lets review
    If the idea of the movie sounds good to you, go see it.
    If it sounds bad to you, don’t go see it.

    See how easy that is.

  2. Ditto. Like with Lord of the Rings, many purists are in an uproar that the movie is not as true to the books as they believe it should be. While I don’t mind watching 16 straight hours of PJ’s LOTR, it just isn’t cost effective.

    I always take movies that are adapted from books with a grain of salt. I keep the book and the film separate and appreciate each for their entertainment value. Period.

  3. It was so powerful movie I ever seeing. And I just wont to said is well done
    Mel Gibson good for you my God Bless you!

  4. As a fellow Christian, after watching a recent interview of Mel Gibson on his new movie, I wanted to send him the Bible promise from Genesis 12:3, Abraham’s covenant.
    It could calm suspicions people have about his intentions for his film “The Passion of Christ” , and remind everyone of God’s promise in Genesis 12:3.
    I think it would prove beneficial if this story was also told in film as well.

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