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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...
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...
...What's changed in the quarter-century since I first saw this movie? Possibly my sense of humor. I didn't find "Life of Brian," at least the 30 min. Passion section, much fun this time. The sextet devoted way too much ribaldry to speech impediments and Jesus' termagant mum, and the filmmaking craft, which I'd remembered as spiffy, now looked slack. Only the strong central metaphor remains: of a fellow who is mistaken for Christ and crucified. "The Last Temptation of Christ" has a similar theme: a man slowly discovers...
...Like Gibson's "Passion," this one covers the last hours of Jesus' life, and alludes to earlier events by flashbacks. In the Gibson films they are visual, here verbal: in long testimony during the trial, witnesses describe some of Jesus' miracles, sermons, claims to royalty or divinity. Happily fashioning a cat's cradle from the tangle of religious and secular politics, the movie pins most of the blame on the Romans, whose second in command tells his soldiers, "Be sure that it is technically the Jews who make the arrest, and that he is brought to the house...