{"id":2341,"date":"2004-03-21T07:56:39","date_gmt":"2004-03-21T23:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/21\/kevin-smith-on-the-passion\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T07:39:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T15:39:48","slug":"kevin-smith-on-the-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/21\/kevin-smith-on-the-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Smith on ‘The Passion’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n CURTIS<\/strong> You made a controversial movie about Catholicism, “Dogma.” What did you think about “The Passion of the Christ”?<\/p>\n

SMITH<\/strong> I haven’t seen it yet. I think it’s funny, though, that people bring it up and ask me, “What do you think of the controversy?” I’m like, “What controversy?” The dude made a movie about Jesus in a country that’s largely Christian — a very traditional movie — and it’s made over \\$200 million in two weeks. There ain’t no controversy, people. That’s a hit. They took one or two Jewish leaders in the beginning and said, “This may be construed as anti-Semitic,” and then spun it into a must-see movie for hard-core Christians. You’ve got to go see it if you love Jesus. I wish to God I had thought to do that when I was making “Dogma.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From a recent New York Times article<\/a> promoting Jersey Girl<\/a>.

[Kevin Smith] made a controversial movie about Catholicism, ‘Dogma.’ What did [he] think about ‘The Passion of the Christ’?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[23,16,2359],"class_list":["post-2341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-film","tag-quotes","tag-the-passion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}