New Film May Harm Gibson's Career [H'wood Bigs vow revenge]

NY Times ^ | 2/26/2004 | SHARON WAXMAN

[joesbucks]

My sister just called me and said she just got home from seeing this movie, through her tears, she said "The Passion of the Christ" will change the world. She said when it was over, nobody got up from their seats and most were crying. She said it is a must see everyone who believes in Jesus . I am going to see if I can get tickets now

I'm saying this with a touch of sarcasm, BUT if this movie is going to change the world, we should begin seeing a difference in about 30 days.

My guess is most of the seats being sold, at least now, are to believers or practioners of faith anyway. They would likely be moved no matter what the message as long as it's Christ centered.

It's one thing to be moved emotionally and from what I've read and heard, this is a very emotional movie. It's another to be "moved". I think most people are being affected emotionally, not in a life shattering "movement". It's one thing to commit to faith, I mean truly commit to faith. It's quite another to have had an emotional experience.

[Miss Marple]

Excuse me, but I notice you on every thread about this movie making sarcastic comments. Could youplease explain your motivation?

[AlbionGirl]

And nothing tells a liberal to "eat sh*t and die" quite like money does.

Very, very, good! ESAD boys, ESAD!

[Wolfstar]

Are you saying the current Hollywood high art genre of potty humor is beyond your intellectual capacity?

I believe Jim Carrey has absolutely ruined his career with his insistence on playing such roles, even now when he's well into middle age. The Truman Show was a very interesting and inventive film in which Carry gave an outstanding performance. But he reverted right back to his bathroom humor type of roles. Too bad.

[Chief901]

Funny, I have been boycotting them for years. I will see this movie, not the usual Hollywood output.

[cajun-jack]

defend his father??? the guy is 85??? years old!!!! if you live that long, I think you are permitted to say just about anything you want to...most people are just gonna say you are a crazy old man...

Can't wait to get to be presumably senile just so i can tell a few folks (in-laws) what i have always thought about 'em...it'll be ok cause i'm just a crazy old man. yee haw!!!

[savedbygrace]

Oh they care about turning a profit all right. But they are determined to make the profits from flicks that also indoctrinate. The indoctrinated will then assure them of future profits without as much of a guessing game because they know what the masses will want to see.

Films like this make them grind down their teeth.

[mr.pink]

My pleasure, but I'm only half joking about the "regularity" with which toilet homor is used as a prop/crutch by the untalented hack writers of contemporary "movies".

I'm proud to watch American Christians figuratively give the one finger salute to the Katzenbergs, Foxmans, and Richs of the world by merely purchasing a ticket.

I hope their howls of outrage get louder and if possible, more shrill.

BTW- a friend of mine who works in Hollywood gave me a heads up on Adam Sandler's next flick.....believe it or not at one point he's actually going to get hit in the nuts. Genius...pure genius.

[nutmeg]

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[savedbygrace]

Good one.

[atomicpossum]

This is the city that will honor Leni Reifenstahl in the Oscar ceremony this year? That awards Roman Polanski?

[paleoagrarian]

Is Hollywood playing right into a stereotype or what?

[mr.pink]

I believe Jim Carrey has absolutely ruined his career with his insistence on playing such roles, even now when he's well into middle age.

You may be right.

[fish hawk]

I just now got back from seeing The Passion and would just say, I didn't cry and I wasn't shocked at the violence. The Pope said it best:" it is as it was". Mel did a great job, hope he makes millions and this movie lasts forever.

[StriperSniper]

That is quote of the day material!

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Something tells me that he's not really concerned with wealth.

I agree. That's what is so disingenuous of doofus Andy Rooney who accused Mel of "making money off the Crucifixion."

The reality is that Gibson expected he'd lose millions on this film.

God, apparently, had other ideas.

[CharacterCounts]

"He put his own money where his mouth is. He invested in himself."

The unforgivable sin of Hollywood and the left in general.

[mathluv]

I loved the comment he made to Bill O the other night - something along the line that anyone who has a script about religion will be getting a lot of attention - everyone will want to do one now.

[Southern Federalist]

Quite apart from all the very interesting issues raised here about secularism and faith in our society, isn't what we are seeing at the theaters across the nation in part the demonstration that Mel Gibson doesn't need these people to make big, big movies that gazillions of people go to see? Does anyone really think that after this movie and the response it's getting, Mel Gibson would have trouble getting investment and distribution for any movie he wants to make, even if it's a remake of No Time for Sergeants?

[aruanan]

Hollywood is a close-knit world, and friendships and social contact are critical in the making of deals and the casting of movies. Many of Hollywood's most prominent figures are also Jewish.

I don't suppose it's ever gone through these folks' minds that their Hollywood culture could become as dead as that of the Incas or Aztecs.