Actually, there are a ton of historical inaccuracies in this and Mel Gibson is just plain old dumb or trying to sell a story for something it isn't. He not only kept in a part during the advanced screening that Jewish groups find inflammatory in which Jews are portrayed as evil both in image and in spirit (a part he said he wouldn't keep), but also made anti-semitic remarks about how Jews own Hollywood and are coming after him for it.
-Rudey
--I'm sure he can find enough outlets in Christian media along with the same kind of people who call Mohammed a child molestor so good for him.
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Originally posted by 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."
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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.
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