Word: vangelo
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...Gibson has snorted his derision over the two earlier Jesus films that have earned the most sustained critical acclaim. Asked a year ago by TIME correspondent Jeff Israeli for an analysis Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Il Vangelo secundo Matteo," (The Gospel According to St. Matthew) he faked a big yawn. Of Martin's Scorsese's "Last Temptation," he said, "You've got Harvey Keitel as Judas saying" - and here Gibson shifted into a Brooklyn accent - "Hey, you ovah dere." Maybe his was just dissing his strongest competition. He knew that these films were closest to his, in setting, rigor, power...
...Thus, in the 28-minute Passion segment of "Il Vangelo," does Jesus stride to his death, across the same countryside (Matera, in Puglia, near the heel of the Italian boot) where Gibson shot much of his film. And the mob rushes after him. One screams: "His blood be on our children!" This is the phrase, implicitly condemning Jews for the murder of Christ, that Gibson said he removed from his film. (Turned out, he removed only the subtitle for the Aramaic translation of the curse.) We leave for another day the debate over whether a film is anti-Jewish...
...Christ-figure, to have everyone hate him and crucify him, while he took their sins upon himself, thervby redeeming all sinners. This was his personal answer. To the public he offered a vision with no resolution but faith: the stark picture of his most artistic film Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to Matthew). The movie is set in the poorest, most barren part of Southern Italy, and the parts are played by amateurs. Christ dies in Calabria...
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