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New THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST Trailer!
Hey folks, Harry here... THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST is coming to a theater near you... I'm so glad I can say that. I was so worried that it wouldn't get a wide release. But a subtitled dead language gore film about one of the greatest stories ever told is going to be opening in over 2000 screens nationwide. It is... One of the best films you'll see this year, because it was one of the best I saw last year, had it been complete it would have been at #3 on my list of 2003 films. An Extraordinary film. Here's the final trailer. Enjoy...
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I dont know much about Christianity or any religion but it looks like a amazing film!
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Jan 16, 2004 4:45:47 AM CST
Anyone else notice Mel Gibson's Mini-Me sitting next to him at t
by cash bailey
Seriously, there's a midget sitting next to him, looking similar to him, dressed the same and copying his movements. I know I'm not imagining it because I've seen it a dozen times. Maybe he IS finally losing his mind.
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Now you can't afford to make biblical films that are either cheesy or sucky or both. Mel Gibson raised the bar into the Nth degree. It will be funny to see biblical movies with the scenes like God and Satan kung-fu fighting in Matrix-style. :)
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I thought the movie wasn't going to have subtitles....when did they decide to add them? Or is that just for the trailer? Subtitles kinda take away some cool points...I was looking forward to the experience of not knowing the language and trying to figure out whats going on...ah well I'll probably still go see it.
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I am so going to see this when it comes out. Wow.
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Let me just say that I am a christian and am sick and tired of so many crap movies coming out with our "lable" on it. It's such a relief to see Mel Gibson portray, what is the most meaningful thing in my life and countless others, in a great way that is accesable to the masses. I can't stand TBN and all the garbage they pump out. Maybe they can see that a movie with a spiritual message doesn't have to be cheesy and non-realisic. Way to go Mel!
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It's the same as the one that was "leaked" long before the film had distribution and a rating. The one where you actually see blood and the nail places in the palm. But this second theatrical trailer is still much, much better than the first one which was just week and made the film look like a movie-of-the-week. I, too, am worried about the sepia tones in the trailer. There's this scene in which Mary looks into the camera with an outstretched hand that is in sepia in this trailer but is in full color in the international trailer. I thought it had much more power as an image in full color. I hope Gibson did not change it.
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http://movies.go.com/movies/P/passion_2003/
They showed this at this years fango con. -
that what it looks like.
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They're still casting white actors to play historical black people. At least they got Ghandi and Malcom X right. Maybe Michael Mann should've casted Brendan Fraser as Ali.
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about these ppl being historically black. black ppl are mentioned in the bible (egypt, ethiopia, etc.) so dont get all bent out of shape.
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No one's 'bent' and yes, black people are mentioned throughtout the Bible (Jesus, of course, being one of them). I'm just wondering why they are not in this movie or any other movie about Jesus. Wait.........I'm wrong. A Black guy DID play Judas Escariot in 'Jesus Christ Superstar'. He sang badly and then he hung himself (as if we needed MORE images of Black people hanging from trees). Hollywood can keep the King James lie up and running if it wants to.
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A movie about Jesus Christ that's rated R. This means Mel isn't pulling any punches with the Crucifixion. Looks like we'll be seeing nails hammered into hands and feet, thorns pressed down into His head, and blood/water spilling from His side. I AM SO THERE!
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This doesn't look like the Girl With A Pearl Earring banner anymore.
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Does anyone remember/have the trailer which was posted here while back with the intro from mel himself..i think it was in wmv format.
I remember it had the brilliant music from Rabbit Proof Fence by Peter Gabriel (i think) which just seemed to fit into every scene so well.
Also someone who has seen the film tells me that whilst most actors used are fairly light skinned the actor who plays Judas is a dark skinned arab, anyone know if this is really true ?...i hope not.
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Jan 16, 2004 9:37:51 PM CST
Anyone else want to see LaBlueGundam's film with God and Satan k
by regicidal_maniac
That movie would rock. LaBlueGundam, you have to find someone to whom you can pitch this thing. Give it a Fight Club-esque soundtrack and you've got a hit for sure.
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Jan 16, 2004 10:44:54 PM CST
I love it when I click on an article about Jesus Christ and find
by cranialleak
Fire the webmaster, Harry. Or get someone who knows how to program. While you're at it, get a spellchecker. Oh, and this movie is gonna kick your heathen ass! Jesus Christ rocks, fuck yeah! Seriously, it looks pretty damn good, and if you can't tell, I ain't that religious.
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probably not.
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That's right, John FUCKING Debney. The guy who's scored such cinematic gems as Liar Liar and Bruce Almighty is scoring the last hours of Christ. I can't wait to hear the temp-track extracts from every Danny Elfman and James Newton Howard score of the past fifteen years underscoring the crucifixion scene...
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Does anyone know which, if any, movies this trailer will be attached to? And the graphic fan-made trailer is still the best one, though this is very good.
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jedihillis, I agree with you, but apparently TBN loves it. I was changing channels the other day, when I saw TBN promoting the film and showing the trailer. They showed free tracts and even free DVDs that Mel Gibson has been offering on his site to get the word out among the TBN types. It seems to be working, they were going wild over it!
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Jan 17, 2004 1:00:09 AM CST
This has gotten old, the constant claiming of Jesus as one race
by jasondkeldar
Saying something loud enough and long enough does not change history. The assumption that there were Ethiopian Jews is based solely on the claims by Ethiopian holy men that they are the lost tribes of Israel, which dates back centuries before Jesus' time. Are we saying that the Ethiopian Jews "Weren't" lost after all?? Then there is the argument people make regarding Ham, Noah's cursed son, who was turned black by God to shame he and his seed and curse them to hewers of wood and bearers of blah-de-blah. Picking and choosing verses and text from the Bible to support your political beliefs is a tactic that worked well for fascists and others who seeked to misuse messages. The Ham verse was popular with racist groups, and the "hair like White wool" verse from Revelations was used by Nation of Islam arguers even before Malcolm X. Ask a Hassidic acolyte how soft, bouncy and bodywaved his hair is before you assume that means African. Nubian, Bantu, Watusi, and other tribes are African-American related. The loors are those of Arabic-Turrkish-Plaestinian descent. Semitic refers to Judean area residents, former and current. Tribal shifts did not flow that far as to bring entire regions of Judea under Numbian or others' sway. The presence of Nubian kings in Egypt is a given, but so was the presence of Egyptian kings in Egypt. As for Cleopatra, she was Greek, and no amont of arguing will convince the world that Greeks are African-tribe related. Be proud of your heritage as so few Americans are brave enough to be. Entire segments of the population call themselves white with little or no claim to it, including my family. Passsing white is only effective with persons of mixed white blood. Racist whites are quick to exclude you if your Prussian, Saxon, Nordic blood is polluted with even Franco-or Italian blood, and heaven forbid you are such as me with Gaelic, Celtic, and Amerindian blood diluting the Welsh/English and German in me. The point I am making is simply this. Jesus was Jewish, born of a Jewish mother and Jewish father. Claiming otherwise without any documentation is fruitless, petty, and grasping. As a non-Jew, as all Caucasian raced people, Asian-raced people, and variants of African races, be they tribal, North African, or Asia Minor-peopled lands, I am Gentile(outside the chosen). However, according to the doctrine of every Christian faith, Jesus mistered to all who came to him, and his followers were told to do the same. As Jewish men in a world controlled by Roman citizenry, they were slow to spread the message to non-Jewish peoples in the beginning, but they gained numbers eventually until they could expand to other peoples, sacrificing themselves according to Roman records, who made light of this "cult" and dismissed them until citizens began to believe and adopt the faith. Roman records also bear witness to he havoc they wreaked with slave trades, due to humanitarian shifts in the populace and the lessening of emperor-worship due to the strictures on false-gods inherent in a monotheistic religion. They paid the price in blood of their faith, martyring themselves in the cause as Christ himself, their Messiah, had done decades before. They did not grow weaker, only stronger, til Constantine, needing soldiers and citizens adopted the faith after a vision, and established the religion as safe to practice. Jesus was Jewish, his followers mostly non-Jewish by then. Still the early iconic images of him were not altered to reflect Italian, French or more Caucasian features. They still represented him as Jewish, nor did they alter the Bible to say he was otherwise, which a deceptive conspiracy could easily have done in those early years. Insistin on casting a non-Jewish appearing Jesus to assuage African-American activists and militants is akin to the changing of historical events wanted by factions in New York regarding 9/11 and the raising of the flag. Truth is indelible. Political maneuvering lends less credence to your cause. Ask Strom Thurmond's racist supporters how they feel knowing he kept a black mistress and has a bi-racial daughter. Living a lie, even if only in your own mind, does not make the lie true or right. He spouted off rhetoric dripping racism because it suited his constituency for him to do so. Spouting off about a black Jesus to promote worship of a man--Elijah Muhammad--is futile as well. Malcolm's arguments, illustrated well by Spike Lee as Denzel's "red" confronts Christopher Plummer's prison chaplain are the same soapbox pipe dreams spouted off by militant little MIchael on "Good Times". Does that mean they are accurate, true, or even well-intentioned? No. In my home city, local religious groups even said in a recent paper, promoting their poorly attended "Black Santa" were arguing that black parents should not take their kids to a white Santa with comments like, "How does anyone know Santa Claus is white anyway?" and "If all you show Black Children is a Black Santa Claus, then they won't assume he is white." This revisionistic attitude is what gave us court decisions that claim God as a word is a violation of the separation of Church and State. The very document this argument is based on mentions God several times and was even sworn to by its signees on God. Going one step further the states that ratified the Constitution, agreeing to bind themselves and further admitted states to this Constitution and its rights, guarantees and protections were also making oaths and law by "the Grace of God", "God the Creator", and "Our Almighty Father". Failing to go through legal channels to have the rebel flag removed from Mississippi's state flag, an activist sued in federal court for religious grounds, stating that the flag sported St Andrew's Cross, with stars and bars overlaying it. Fortunately heraldic intentions are not deemed religious and the "X" of the flag was termed a slatier, even though the cross is mentioned in our original battle flag, designed by George Washington when referecing it away from it being the symbol of Imperial Britain. Away from the point I have gotten, yes, but allow my Yoda speech to finish this argument--Trashing this movie based on a lack of racial sensitivity is a misleading attack by those who cannot stand to see any sort of religious film get any approval whatsoever. Granted, "Left Behind" and Omega Code were poor movies with shaky foundations, but this is not a religious film as it is a direct representation of what over 1/3 of the world views as an ancient historical document. True, the scientific and pseudo-scientific community would have many believing that noone in the world believes in the Bible these days, over half of Americans profess Christian beliefs, and there are over One Billion Catholics on the planet, not to mention the other denominations and faiths related to Christianity. Muslims believe in a martyr named Jesus but reserve divine providence for Muhammad, Mohamet, Mohammed. This does tend to indicate more do acknolwedge a higher power than don't. Some may lapse from, fight against, or just outwardly deny the existence of a Creator, but the majority of peoples believe in a higher existence, with a guiding force behind it. Physicists are even claiming that the order of the Universe is too easy to be random, that the cause of existence, matter, energy, time, and the fabric of space itself is at its mst basic level possibly just simply willed into being. If believing Jesus is Black gets you through the night, then more power to you. Consider it your doctrine as Catholics have catechism and Baptists, Chruch of Christ' members, Pentecostals, Methodists, and Episcopalians have their own professions of faith. Simply add this to your statement: "I profess to believe that, all provable evidence to the contrary, Jesus--Immanuel, Christ, the Son of God--is not of Jewish descent as I am Anti-semitic enough to believe that African tribes usurped the Israelites' homes and populated Judea with African tribesmen, taking on Jewish tribal identities and representing themselves not as black but as copperskinned. This I believe and espouse wholeheartedly." Good luck with that.
PS Gandhi was Indian, and played by an Elghisman in Sir Richard Attenborough's "Gandhi".. Ben Kingsley sound Indian to you??
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Ben Kingsley IS Indian, his father made him change his name as he thought it would hinder him in his career.
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Bare with me. All the tribes of Israel were named after Joseph's brothers, so it makes sense that the lost tribe was based around Joseph. Joseph wore a coat of many colors... much like the SCOTTISH KILT!?! Who are the only European men to wear open garments of many colors??? Of course I heard this from Dr. Gene Scott so....
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That trailer is a beaut. I mean, it's totally sad, but it gave me shivers: the music, the images of course. I can't wait to see it. It's going to be very special indeed. I can feel it!! And I'm so happy for Mel Gibson that "The Passion of the Christ" will be getting its wide release to. It certainly will be sought out, and here I thought I was going to have to trip it to an art house. :)
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When I first heard about this project, I thought that Mel had forfeit his entire career on the basis of one (for lack of a better term) vanity project. Then I heard that all the dialogue would be in Aramaic, with no subtitles. That sealed the deal for me. Months later, I see the first trailer; and I'm completely flabbergasted at the genius of the film. It looks to me like a film that celebrates Jesus as a man, not as the son of God, much like THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST did. As blasphemous as most Christian peoples say that flick was, I honestly consider it the greatest passion play ever put on film, from a man who was in training to be a Catholic priest - Martin Scorsese - and a man raised as a Calvinist - Paul Schrader. Now, here comes this film, THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, which once again threatens my dislike of anything Christian. Now, I consider myself to be a Christian, in that I believe that there was a man named Jesus Christ who lived 2 000 years ago and changed the world as it was then. As for believing in God or any word in the Bible, no, I can't say as I do. But I digress, I think that this film is visual storytelling in it's most pure form, and it's brave, and it's striking. My only hope is that it does decent business (most likely better overseas than domestically) so that it can act as a catalyst in giving other filmmakers the courage to do what they feel in their heart must be done. There's much too much pablum being fed to film audiences these days, and I hope for an end to it, soon.
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at www.x102fm.com (if we don't say so ourselves)
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Jan 17, 2004 10:10:12 PM CST
NEW RULE: Avoid any movie starring Monica Belluci in which she d
by bill maher
I think Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter is more faithfull to the Gospels. Amen.
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Jan 17, 2004 11:20:53 PM CST
According to Film Score Monthly's website, Debney is scoring the
by osmosis jones
Just fucking bizarre. On the bright side, we won't have to hear Lisa Gerrard's sub-Xena orgasmic wailing or James Horner's 5000th rehash of Sneakers...
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I upped to a yahoo breifcase you will need to have an id to get it.
It is the one that was posted on Harvest Crusade with the Mel Gibson intro and features extended footage including the ending if you dont wanna spoil yourself that is.
http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/bc/400a3a14_17034/bc/My+Documents/MelGibson-Passion.wmv?bfb6jCABcxJhkJUC
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http://briefcase.yahoo.com/kccdxx
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This looks like its going to be a powerful film. After the success of Braveheart, and its ground breaking battle scenes, which have set the standard for the recent epics, including LOTR, one probably shouldn't expect anything but greatness with Gibson's direction. Makes you wish he had directed more films since winning the oscar. Being a devout Catholic, I'm curious to what he what have done with Tolkien's Catholic myth, The Lord of the Rings.
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BladeRunnerUnit, here's that link: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~scs273/01.mov
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Jan 19, 2004 12:02:35 AM CST
I'll tell you what Gibson would have done with Lord of the Rings
by bill maher
King Theoden would have grabbed each and every member of the fellowship by the neck and thrown them out of the castle windows to their deaths for being annoying fags.
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Whatever, religion is for fools.
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Why remove the truth? Face yourself.
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