Zeffirelli Brands Mel Gibson's Passion Anti-Semitic; Calls Director “Bloodthirsty”

Yahoo ^ | Thu Feb 26,12:12 PM ET | Godfrey Deeny

[proud American in Canada]

"Who is chiefly known as the author of the book "Clockwork Orange" described best as... "Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven"

Violence? What violence? Do these people even think before they talk?"

LOL.. good catch!

[UCANSEE2]

It will get worse. Every god-forsaken criminal on the planet will come out against this film and Mel Gibson.

You see, when Zefferili or anyone in Hollywood makes tons of bucks, they wallow in the lust and greed.

They usually only pick scripts based on the ability to make tons of money. We know where their values lie.


Mel Gibson, from all appearances, did not make this movie to get rich.
None of the FILM/TV/MEDIA are going to accept he was Inspired. They would accept one of 'their own' as being inspired, and have said so before. Mel Gibson has always been an outsider to them, because he is a real person, not a 'flash in the pan' like most of them are.

Ted Nugent - real.

George Bush - Real.

Mel Gibson - Real.

Clintons - hiding from God.
Kerry - Hiding from God.
Marylyn Manson - Hiding from God.

BTW, my girlfriend spray painted over a poster of Mr. Manson that was a promo for a concert here in town, and it cost me $1000 so far.

And I couldn't have spent the money in any better way.

[PeoplesRep_of_LA]

Other than a few similar articles, the media has been strangely silent. Even the entertainment media. I've been watching and reading all day long. It's beyond bizarre.

Hmmm, I am not sure what you mean. From the watching I have done, there are TONS of stories about this movie. Its a phenomenon.

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&scoring=d&edition=us&q=passion+of+the+christ&btnG=Search+News

Check that out. I have been reading stories on there all day. Its about 7000 strong.

[Tax-chick]

The Herods were not Jewish ... they were out-of-towners, Edomites.

The Sanhedrin were Jewish.

[what's up]

Right you are...thanks for the reminder.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

You could have smeared it with $hit and called it art!

[afz400]

There seem to be a lot of people who want to believe that Jews are the only people who have ever suffered, that only blacks were slaves, and that Hispanics are the only ones who ever worked at low-paying jobs.

[Clintons a commie]

Herod the Great was a real creep as was Herod Agrippa. Also, the Sandhedrin not too great. Anyone recall the same?

There were lots of villianous Jewish characters in JESUS OF NAZARETH, including Ian Holm's Zerah, a Temple scribe that isn't even mentioned in Scripture.

I think Zefirelli is jealous that another cinematic version of the story will eclipse his as the most popular.

[commish]

COMMISH brands Zefferelli IRRELEVANT, Calls director IGNORANT!

[Clintons a commie]

Zeferelli is himself Jewish, so it is not as if he is dissinteresteed

Actually, Zefirelli is Catholic. His autobiography was interesting reading; he returned to the Church after having a dream about St. Francis(which prompted him to make BROTHER SUN,SISTER MOON). Maybe he's going senile.

[Mamzelle]

I have loved Zeferelli's Shakespearean movies, but I thought his Passion was very silly. His Jesus had psychedelic blue eyes and a spooky demeanor, and his Mary kept reminding me of Juliet. "Behold, the handmaiden of the Lord. But that's the nightingale, not the lark..."

[BossLady]

LOL! I have to say though that Zeferelli's version was slightly more watchable (although creepy) than the 'Jesus' mini-series a few years ago staring 'Elton' from the movie "Clueless" as Jesus. Now THAT was disturbing! :o

[ozzymandus]

Zeferelli?? I thought that was a brand of tires!?

[af_vet_1981]

I seem to recall some bad Jews in Zeferelli's "Jesus of Nazareth."

Given that this director made Jesus of Nazareth and knows Mel Gibson professionally (and something about the family and how Mel was raised), his opinion is worth considering.

[anniegetyourgun]

Apparently not.

BTW, that was a book I was required to read in public high school English classs in the 70's. (I still haven't forgiven that ugly, dope-smoking, long-haired hippy of a teacher for assigning that worthless book.) You see, this culture war has been going on for quite some time.

[Mamzelle]

I've seen several Mel Gibson interviews over the years. Each one had me shaking my head--thought the guy was plumb crazy. The interview with O'Reilly the other night was the first one where MG was actually coherent.

Since he's had a long and productive and successful career, and a good longterm marriage and what seem to be a lot of good kids, I have to think that he may just have some very bizarre affects, but is not actually bizarre.

[jscd3]

BTW, that was a book I was required to read in public high school English classs in the 70's.

It wasn't required reading for me - I bought it after seeing the movie. I really fell in love with Rossini because of that film (all of the fight scenes were to the overture from La Gaza Ladra)

The last thing Burgess ever did was the screen play for a bizarre paleolithic film called In Search Of Fire. Featuring filfthy Neanderthals, canibalism, cave bear attacks, lots of sex with fat painted chicks, and four or so different invented prehistoric languages that made Aramaic and Latin sound downright friendly. It was a mess...

No wonder Zeffirelli is proud to have had him as the writer of the screen play...

On the other hand, I did rather like Jesus of Nazerath, as well as Romeo and Juliet - all of which reminds me how far we have slid in the last 30 years of this culture war.

[jscd3]

I've seen several Mel Gibson interviews over the years

I know what you mean. I actually think that he is nervous talking in front of a "live" audience

[Mamzelle]

He wasn't just nervous when I saw him on other interviews--he was like the aliens in "Signals." It's even been speculated that he does this on purpose to avoid being interviewed.

But you can't argue with a successful life. He's just not cut out to hold a conversation with earthlings.

[what's up]

He doesn't claim to know the family personally...just the "family culture" whatever that means.

I'm just commenting on the fact that Zeferelli claims to want to "unburden the Jews of Deicide", yet depicts some Jews negatively in his own film.