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Gibson's gotta be schizo

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In Reply to: RE: But that doesn't explain Gibson's "Passion" NT posted by Jazz Inmate on February 15, 2008 at 09:51:23

(Posted as comments, not preaching.)
With regard to the "passion"; the suffering, death, and resurrection of Christ define Christianity. Remove those and Jesus is just another teacher; not the Son of God sent to restore the broken bond with Man. I understand what Gibson tried to do, but he badly overdid it and created a caricature.
I thought some scenes in "Passion" were breathtaking; Pilate's wife meeting Mary; Mary mopping her Son's blood from the cobbles; the trembling hand of the adulteress reaching for Jesus' foot as he defends her from the mob; Mary's flashback to the toddler Jesus falling when He stumbles with the cross. Those were brilliant moments of film-making. I find it hard to accept that they came from the the same creative source as the rubber 'scourge' suit and the buckets of blood and gore. In "Apocalypto", he did it again; squandering a carefully crafted Mayan reality on a fake blood-drenched imagery and a hokey pursuit story.
There's either someone behind the Director's curtain, or Mel got two very conflicted sides and better not fall off the meds. Or maybe he knows each gallon of blood is worth $10 million in receipts.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy - WB Yeats

Edits: 02/15/08

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