Word: mel
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Polly R. Seplowitz ’05, a student in the class, wrote in an e-mail that she “feels very uncomfortable supporting Mel Gibson’s work...
Five days after the opening of Mel Gibson’s controversial film “The Passion of the Christ,” professors and students are reflecting on allegations that the movie presents anti-Semitic material...
...Mel's Passion Gibson's new film on Christ is bloody and well made...
...might not expect much controversy from a strenuously reverent film adaptation of some famous chapters from the all-time best-selling book, one found in most homes, churches and hotel rooms. But with mouthy Mel Gibson as the auteur and the Gospels as his text, The Passion of the Christ has stoked a holy word war of an intensity not seen since Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ...
...this exactly a date movie. No, the audience profile for The Passion of the Christ is fairly narrow: true believers with cast-iron stomachs; people who can stand to be grossed out as they are edified. And a few movie critics who can't help admiring Mad Mel for the spiritual compulsion that drove him to invent a new genre--the religious splatter-art film--and bring it to searing life, death and resurrection...