Can't wait for Mel Gibson's "The Passion of Christ"

[phigamucsb]

I think this movie will be great. I really enjoy movies that make people think.

I was sitting in church yesterday morning and the pastors are pushing ppl to go see this movie. I am tempted to go see it. plus i got free tickets that is always a good incentive too.

[Honeykiss1974]

I plan to go see it.

[blueGBI]

I will be there. This is the first movie I've looked forward to seeing in a very very very long time.

[Taualumna]

I've heard that Mel's not going to put subtitles in it, and I think he's doing it for a reason. The purpose is that we see the horrors, so that we CAN think and interpret it in our own way.

[AlphaGamDiva]

Originally posted by Taualumna
I've heard that Mel's not going to put subtitles in it, and I think he's doing it for a reason. The purpose is that we see the horrors, so that we CAN think and interpret it in our own way.

wow, i didn't know that. i was miffed a bit it was in another language.....i understand the point and all, but that also might turn ppl away from seeing it who really should see it. ya know? but i am super excited about it all, anyway, and i hope it does great. mel gibson is fantastic and i hope after all the stink ppl have made over it, he blows all the other movies away. it opens the 25th, right? oh...and i believe tonite is his interview about it with diane sawyer....def watching it.

[RACooper]

I'm interesting in seeing it.... but I do worry how some will receive it, which also seems to be the concern of my parish priest. He made sure to explain the stance of the Church on the film along with his own views (he apparently has seen an advanced screening).

[AlphaSigOU]

If I remember correctly, Jesus and most of the other characters will be speaking in Aramaic. (I'm pretty certain they gotta include some subtitles... Aramaic is not an everyday spoken language. ) Otherwise, most everyone there will be thumbing through their Bibles to keep track of what's being said!

[AlphaSigOU]

According to the official website. www.thepassionofthechrist.com :

"All the characters are heard speaking the languages they would actually have spoken at the time. This means Aramaic for the Jewish characters including Christ and his disciples, and 'street Latin' for the Romans. Greek, which was commonly spoken among the intellectuals of the period, was not quite as relevant to the story."

[GeekyPenguin]

I'm thinking about going to see this - I think I know the story well enough that I'll be able to figure it out. My Theo prof is quite the language scholar so it'll be interesting to see what he has to say about it.

[KillarneyRose]

I just noticed that the role of Jesus is being played by James Caviezel, who was Ashley Judd's sociopathic husband in the movie "High Crimes". I'm just surprised because he seems to be a big, strapping guy and I've never pictured Jesus that way.

I'm sure this will be a powerful and moving film but I don't plan to see it. From what I've heard, it will be far too graphic for me. I remember being really upset the first time I attended Stations of the Cross when I was a kid; so I probably couldn't handle this!

[sigtau305]

I might go see it. it should be interesting.

[lauralaylin]

Originally there were going to be no subtitles, but after some pressure (don't know from whom) Mel Gibson decided to add them after all. He originally was thinking that the emotion seen from the characters would be enough to get the story, that was why he wasn't going to have them.

[DeltaSigStan]

From working at a video store, I KNOW people will come back and ask for a dubbed version once this comes out.

Stan-
Thanks America for your laziness, instead of enjoying the beauty of the director's vision.

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon dubbed SUCKS

[justamom]

I will rent the video!

Lot's of controversy around this film. I have a very hard time understanding that. It's not like we ALL haven't heard this story.
They say it's because it is so moving and of course the fear
of people blaming the Jewish all over again. Mel cut this scene-

"A scene in the film, in which the Jewish high priest Caiaphas calls down a kind of curse on the Jewish people by declaring of the Crucifixion, "His blood be on us and on our children," will not be in the movie's final version, said the Gibson associate, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The passage had been included in some versions of the film that were shown before select groups, mostly of priests and ministers.

"It didn't work in the focus screenings," the associate said. "Maybe it was thought to be too hurtful, or taken not in the way it was intended. It has been used terribly over the years."

Jewish leaders had warned that the passage from Matthew 27:25 was the historic source for many of the charges of deicide and Jews' collective guilt in the death of Jesus.

Gibson's decision to remove the scene could indicate that he was being responsive to concerns of Jewish groups that the film will fuel anti-Semitism."

http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache...hl=en&ie=UTF-8
OK, though Biblically it stands correct, it was feared it would re-ignite anti-Semitism.
I don't think that holds too much water, but then, people often surprise and disappoint me...

When you think about all the Easter movies-The Robe, Damitrius and the Gladiator, the Ten Commandments...
The Musicals-Jesus Christ Superstar (TALK ABOUT A CONTROVERSY !) edited here to add-(I LOVED JCS, I think it is one of the best musicals and adaptations I have EVER seen!)Godspell, where was the uproar from the religious critics then?
I thought Dogma was horrifically sacrilegious but nobody screamed about that OR The Last Temptation of Christ...except the Christians and then-we were trying to practice censorship.