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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...
Gulay accuses Gibson of antisemitism: “Gibson never wants people to forget that we are ultimately responsible for his Lord crucifixion. And by people I mean the Jews.” I’d like to hear Gulay’s justification for this, since his article provides none. I saw the film last night, and if Gibson had an antisemitic agenda, he failed miserably. Simon the Cyrenian emerges as a major hero in the second half of the film. As in the gospels, one of the thieves (yes, a Jew) is seen as a sympathetic figure...
...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 he was not pointing fingers or guilt-tripping anybody...
...True believers can take their choice: the bloody body of Christ, courtesy of Mel Gibson and James Caviezel, or the muscle-beach Jesus of those theological scamps at "South Park...