Italian friend: 'Dear Mel Gibson! Why did you stain 'The Passion' with your ugly racism?'

[Milagros]

The following is from an Italian penpal:

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Mel Gibson accused of violent and anti-Jewish rants
The script Eszterhas wrote for Mel Gibson is entitled " The MacCabees '," a project Gibson initiated after facing an earlier round of anti-semitism charges. Gibson..

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-last-word/47037091

Eszterhas: Mel Gibson hates Jews; wanted to murder Oksana
Eszterhas writes: “You said the Holocaust was ‘mostly a lot of horses—.’ You said the Torah made reference to the sacrifice of Christian babies and infants. When I told you that you were confusing the Torah with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, ... you insisted ‘it’s in the Torah -- it’s in there!” (It isn’t).”
The Hungarian-born Eszterhas has written about anti-Semitism in his own family, including his father, István Eszterhas, a Catholic newspaper editor who voiced pro-Nazi opinions before and during the war and of the State Department’s investigation of his father for alleged war crimes. http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/entertainment/celebrities_gossip/147155266.html

The Passion was supposed to be such a great project... Yet bigoted Mel couldn't hold himself back from not embedding his racist garbage.

Why would 'Jesus' look any different -physically- than his Jewish colleagues???

See also:

The camera opens with Jesus and some of his followers in a dark shady garden, Jesus is crying and surrounded by his men who are comforting him. A sudden shatter of the darkness is interrupted by hook noses Jews with dark circles under their eyes, dressed in warrior gear, who proceed to savagely beat Jesus to the ground.
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[MarkBsnr]

I didn't like it either, for the same reason. If I remember correctly, the film also didn't mention the Resurrection.

The last scene, of the Resurrected Jesus, Incarnate among men, was the crowning glory of the film.

[dfwgator]

The man is “Bi-Polar” with a capital “B”.

[Mr. K]

The Passion is one of the most amazing movies ever made

it was a sin that it did not get bes picture, but those evil bastards were afraid they would burn if they touced it or something

No matter what else is going on in his personal life, I give him kudos for that movie

[MarkBsnr]

I’m awaiting the sequel.

:)

[Dr. Sivana]

I don ‘t get too worked up over Jews playing Kirk and Spock. I tbink it is funny that they played Col. Klink and Sgt. Schulz.

Italians and Jews have portrayed each other in Hollywood movies from the beginning, ask Sonny Corleone.

The movie was filmed in Italy, and Gibson was bankrolling the whole thing. No doubt that after the main stars, he would go for local talent. A Jewess did play the Blessed Virgin Mary. ALebanese friend of mine’s main complaint was the woodeness of the Aramaic.

[Future Snake Eater]

If I remember correctly, the film also didn't mention the Resurrection.

You don't remember correctly.

[onedoug]

I liked Rosalinda Celentano as Satan.

I’m a gentile advocate of the Old Testament, and don’t believe in Satan, considering it an abstraction of the human mind. But evil can be very seductive.

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

I thought I heard that before.