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...People here will work with the Antichrist if he'll put butts in the seats." JOHN LESHER, Hollywood talent agent, on whether allegations of anti-Semitism in The Passion of Christ will hurt director Mel Gibson's movie career
...Years Ago in TIME The emotional response stirred by Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ is hardly unprecedented. Witness the furor from Christian groups over Martin Scorsese's fictionalized version of the life of Jesus, The Last Temptation of Christ, the subject of a 1988 TIME cover...
...strongest and best of the apostles. Paul is a hypocrite and liar. Jesus is so dazed that, even on the eve of his Crucifixion, he is still not quite sure whether to preach love or murder Romans. Ready for Director Martin Scorsese's new movie, The Last Temptation of Christ? ... When it opens this Friday, religious crowd scenes are almost certain to appear outside the theaters as well as in them. For the past month, conservative Christians have denounced the film as blasphemous, staged demonstrations, called for boycotts and shaped a national campaign to have the picture withdrawn. Along...
Erol N. Gulay’s February 23rd opinion article, “The Misunderstanding of the Christ” demonstrates an unfamiliarity with its subject, Mel Gibson’s film “The Passion of the Christ.” It would not surprise me to hear that he had not seen the film when he wrote his column criticizing...
...bloodshed visited upon Jesus, cleverly usurping the message of love and brotherhood, only to replace it with the message of intolerance, sin and violence” misses the point entirely. The critical moment in Christianity, Christians believe, was precisely when Jesus endured the hell depicted in the film. Christ went through it, according to Christian belief, so that the people that he loved (read: “everybody”) could be saved. Gibson attempted to depict the extent of that sacrifice. How successful Gibson was in doing this is potentially debatable. What is not debatable is that...