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Apr. 13th, 2004 02:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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#1 Movie - Passion of the Christ
#2 Movie - Hellboy
Before Easter the zombies had the lead.
Do people know that just going to see the movie isn't enough to make you a good christian? And that it doesn't substitute actually going to church and being, er, good? Just asking since it (ie Passion) went back up to #1 for Easter.
Rebeca and John Stamos have gone their separate ways. Yay? Her career is red hot, his is not. Why would they think I care? Okay, I did choose to watch this crap.
Why are all actors so absurdly short (with some Ben Affleck exceptions)?
Van Helsing. Hugh. Wet. *sigh* Sue me, I like seeing him kick ass.
I'm told that the hooker look is the new thing in Hollywood. New?
I'm going to try and do some actual work now.
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Date: 2004-04-13 10:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-13 11:06 am (UTC)I'm partial to the whole glamour a la 40s thing myself.
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Date: 2004-04-13 10:50 am (UTC)(using my Bono icon because, you know, the hair)
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Date: 2004-04-13 01:39 pm (UTC)Warning - Rant ahead!
Date: 2004-04-13 04:44 pm (UTC)Yes, I do take this maybe a bit too seriously. Yes, it's only a movie and like so many others in Hollywood it tells the story the guy with the money wants to tell and I shouldn't be surprised. It just ticks me that people are taking this as The Word. It's not. It's just passing for it for lazy people who won't be bothered with actually reading It and thinking. The really scary thing is - it's close enough that it's just being gobbled up.
Argh!
Anybody bothered to ask themselves why the actor playing Jesus was hit by lightning? Actually struck by it. Coincidence? Maybe. I like to think it's a big thumbs down.
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Date: 2004-04-13 04:55 pm (UTC)No, people who go there to get their religion would be sorely disappointed, as the film portrayed only one (albeit important) aspect of Jesus' life. My future daughter-in-law, who has not been to church in ages and has really lost touch with her beliefs, has been inspired now to learn more and to attend church again.
I guess it's all quite personal, but that can't be considered a bad thing. At least it's not by me.
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Date: 2004-04-13 05:05 pm (UTC)I find it hilarious that evangelicals are giving the man their money, when they wouldn't be caught dead in church with him.
I've read more than one reviewer who call it pornography, but who am I to judge? I'm sure not seeing it.
It's the antisemitism that burns me.
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Date: 2004-04-13 05:16 pm (UTC)And I saw no degree of antisemitism in the movie. It was made abundantly clear that the Romans crucified Christ. The actress who played Mary, Jesus' mother, is a Jew, and she, too, believes in the film and does not feel it is antisemitic. I saw her interviewed.
I guess I'm just not understanding all the resentment and hate. I have to surmise that the outcry is mostly political in nature. You have an openly Conservative Republican making a controversial movie in mostly Liberal Hollywood during a tense election year.
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Date: 2004-04-13 05:21 pm (UTC)So it's not true that little jewish children turn into devils? And why not cast ALL the jews in the film with jews?
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Date: 2004-04-13 05:45 pm (UTC)I am not an evangelist and never claimed to be one. I don't go out into the world and preach the Gospel. I'm just a homemaker, part-time administrator, mom and wife...and I'm a Christian. I try to be a good one, but I fail miserably on almost a daily basis, I'm certain. I attend my church most Sundays, but I miss more than I like, just because I'm sometimes too tired to make the 30-min. journey.
In the movie, Judas is consumed by guilt because he turned Jesus over to the Romans. Children are not actually turned into the Devil. His guilt (or the Devil, or both...I'm not certain) distorts the children's faces and tortures him, until he is driven to take his own life. That is not turning Jewish children into the Devil, IMO.
As far as casting goes, I do not know how many Jewish actors/actresses and extras were used, do you? Why is that a requirement? I guess I'm not following.
We should probably agree to disagree, because I don't think either one of us is going to change our minds. I saw the film and put myself through the utter agony of it, mostly to support Mel Gibson and his right to make the movie. I don't think the movie would have done as well as it did (is doing) without the outcry from people who feel much like you do.
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Date: 2004-04-13 06:11 pm (UTC)I'd just much rather see Hellboy.
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Date: 2004-04-13 05:34 pm (UTC)I do think that when you make a movie about this particular subject, it's almost certain to arouse, people to strong feelings, since it's something that matters an awful lot to people, in a lot of different ways. And I think Gibson has gotten rather self-righteous about it in the way he promoted and marketed the movie which doesn't help things any.
Mel Gibson has every right to make a movie about things that he feels strongly about, and if anyone wants to see it and takes real inspiration from it, good for them. But I also think that the people who object to things they find objectionable about it have every right to that, as well.
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Date: 2004-04-13 05:48 pm (UTC)THE END
Date: 2004-04-13 06:08 pm (UTC)This man let himself be quoted saying he was inspired by the Holy Spirit! Who in the name of Moses is he? Rich? From actor he's gone to bringer of the Word to the masses? Please. He's part of a cult! People are so ignorant, but so very ignorant, that they see it and eat it up. Are there any disclaimers at ALL telling people this is a work of fiction, loosely based on the life of Jesus? Or that Mr. Gibson based his movie on work KNOWN for its anti-semitic bias?
I give up. Really.
The main actor was struck by lightning and the movie now is the gore aficionado flick of choice. It's been called a snuff film (perhaps that's where the whole pornography thing comes from) and I, personally, find that disrespectful. I object to the way the movie has been marketed on how it was made, not to what it talks about.
What's the point... This isn't even about the movie. It's about the right getting a ride on the telly time this movie is getting in an election year.
If nobody else cares and/or sees the horror of it - why waste my bloody time?
For anybody with a brain and willing to actually think? I rec Flavius Josephus, AKA The Jewish Traitor, for some background. No, not an internet search - the book. Read it. Then go on to read about Jewish customs in the first centuries. Political dealings with the Roman occupation. You know, the basic stuff. This assuming the Bible - Old and New Testament are already known and understood. And not the lame translation.
(I thank G'd once again for giving me a father who always encouraged me to think and question and research. This Italian man took me out of Catholic school when the nuns had issues with my inquiring mind. He rocks.)