Oscaring Mel Gibson (American Spectator article by Freeper)

American Spectator ^ | 12/22/04 | Patrick Hynes (freeper)

[rocknotsand]

Sidebar vanity:

Wishlist time. Now we have the Passion, what of other biblical epics in Panavision/THX/DTS/IMAX?

I wanna see Solomonic Israel in its glory, complete with Holy Of Holies scenes of course, and I want to see the temptation of his chase for wisdom and his fall into the clutches of heathenism/reincarnation/fertility/pantheism. It would be a wonderful dig at the looming era of religious melange. The world governor will need a cult(s) to soothe over the cracks between the spectrum of ideologies from fundamentalists and the humanist-secularlists. The clash of the civilizations is a great opportunity to foist a global peace relying on curbing certain religious "antagonisms". The classic one is between Judeo-Christians and the Islamo-fascists but the other biggie -on the back burner since 9/11- is the Hindu-Islamic one in the Indus regions (where they have nukes ready to fly right now...)

[LibertarianInExile]

"Catholicism is not and never has been a demomination."

I bet you think it's not a denomination, either. But here's what a denomination is: 4 : a religious organization uniting local congregations in a single legal and administrative body. Seems to me the Catholic church fits that definition just fine.

[Dante3]

There is no question but this film inspired many, including a couple of criminals to confess.

BTW, in one poll on aol and also in USA today, Pat Tillman was vote the most inspiring person.

[rocknotsand]

Anyone know where I heard/read a reference to early heathenism inspiration coming from the snakes? Somehwere I picked the story that rebellious and 'wise' souls looking to diss monotheism and judgement day were inspired by the 'death and rebirth' of snakes: their skins were found around the place. Hello reincarnation. The body had 'died' of a certain age (shed its skin) but then been reborn. Must have made for quite a convincing religious foundation.

[1rudeboy]

Just makes the Hollywood crowd look more stupid than usual.

Mel made them look stupid in many ways, but the ways that must hurt the most are dollar gross and residuals. Of which you got nothing, Hollywood. NOTHING.

[colorado tanker]

Hollyweird has been doing everything it can to drive off a mass audience since the 1960's. They've maxed out their core audience of teens and young adults. The only way they can increase revenues is to make movies that appeal to the Passion audience or raise ticket prices. They'll do the latter.

It's amazing they're taking the, "I'm shocked, shocked to discover there's violence in this movie," line. Their bread and butter is blood and guts "action" movies and gross-out movies directed at male teens. Whatta bunch of high-brows.