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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 03:13 PM
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Holy Christ, it's Mel Gibson!
http://us.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/11/film.the.passion.ap/index.html

Lauer said the film has not sought a distributor, but that at least three major studios are interested. Also, although the recent screenings have included English subtitles, Icon hasn't decided whether to include them in a major release.

"I don't know that he will be able to find a studio that will distribute this," said Kim Masters, a film columnist for Esquire Magazine.

Masters said industry people who have seen the film respect its quality, but said it is disturbingly graphic.

"It's not a family film, from what I understand," she said. "It's a really difficult film."
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Now that they have it subtitled, and with any luck it will get a US distributer. I'm interested in seeing this.
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Maple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 03:24 PM
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1. Whyever for?
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slappypan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 03:29 PM
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2. Neal Pollack's analysis
Mel Gibson Versus The Jews

"I can tell you that the controversy surrounding the movie, with detractors claiming that it repeats ancient anti-Semitic slander, is entirely justified. That's not to say it shouldn't be seen. I mean, Hollywood released Tears Of The Sun, for heaven's sake, not to mention Don't Say A Word. But I should probably warn you about, for lack of a better term, the movie's "Jewish problem." Here are some of the nastier bits. Hold on to your kipa.

--The character of Pontius Pilate has been renamed "Jewy Jew Jew Jew." He has the last line of the movie, which, translated from Aramaic, goes, "Boy, am I glad that the Jews killed Jesus! Now we can go ahead and eat Christian babies in peace!"

--While dying on the cross, Jesus hallucinates a world where all people live in peace and harmony, because there are no more Jews. He croaks, "The Jews did this to me, not the Romans. If anyone still remembers anything about my story in the 21st Century, that's the one thing that needs to stick."

--Mary Magadlene, fully reformed, blows up an abortion clinic.

--At the last supper, Jesus leans into the table. The disciples lean in to hear him. "I've got a tip from God," he says. "Judaism is on the way out. ..."

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Maple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 03:34 PM
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4. Oh well!
and here I thought it was going to go lightly on the Jews! :D
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 01:41 AM
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11. ROTFLMAO...
...it's a movie. You don't want to see it, you don't go. Welcome to America.
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:44 AM
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12. Congrats boloboffin!! 500 posts
:toast:
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soleft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 03:33 PM
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3. I'll buy Jesus was a real person who died on the Cross, but.....
Monica Belucci has Mary Magdelene? Give me a break. Ok. So Gibson wants to make a brutally realistic depiction of Jesus's crucifixion, then casts one of the most beautiful women in the world as a prostitute, ok ex prostitute circa 00 A.D. Vanity Project is right.
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Kat45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 07:44 PM
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6. Mary Magdalene was NOT a prostitute!
People tend to confuse her with the woman who was about to be stoned, and we don't even know that she was a prostitute, we only know she was an adulterer.

Mary Magdalene was a woman who Jesus cast demons out of.
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 01:22 AM
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10. No, as the Virgin Mary, according to IMDB
I was looking forward to Mel on the cross shouting "Salvation!" but it was not to be.
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Jim Sagle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 03:59 PM
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5. Pollack may be on drugs, and making it all up.
It sure reads like he shitted that review out of his ass.

If he's described the movie accurately, Mel Gibson is Nazi filth.
But that's HUGE if at this point.

The Internet Movie Database review (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0335345), has a message board where NO antisemitism is expressed.

I'd be very skeptical of Neal Pollack's writings.
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Pert_UK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 07:58 PM
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7. For the love of God, can't you people understand satire???
How come so many people on this DB take things seriously when they are blatantly being ironic/sarcastic/satirical???

Gotta read between the lines!!!

Peace.

P.
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Jim Sagle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 01:02 AM
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8. After I posted, I had that same thought.
The thing is, Pollack uses a sledgehammer approach which sometimes comes off more as insane ranting than satire.
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Pert_UK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 01:13 AM
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9. Fair enough but.....
'The character of Pontius Pilate has been renamed "Jewy Jew Jew Jew." '

And you believed this?

:-)

P.
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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 05:45 PM
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14. Irony deficiency is a serious disease!
:D
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slappypan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 10:00 AM
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13. sigh
I thought Pollack was poking fun at both the whole overblown controversy and Mel's wingnut beliefs. Of course Mel is not "nazi filth," he just a spoiled celebrity in over his head trying to make "great art" out of his no doubt deeply held but rather batty interpretations of Christianity.

Er, maybe we should make fun of Kevin Costner instead, or Madonna.
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