Many theaters are having a preliminary showing of The Passion today at around 7:00 PM-ish. Does anyone have tickets yet? 
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CeCe said:One of the theaters here is doing that in conjunction with the local Christian radio staion and my church. But it's strictly one of those "call and be # (whatever) and win" situations. Way too risky for me. So I just bought tickets on Friday.
Because of a myriad of concerns expressed by Jews, both believers and unbelievers he had promised weeks ago to put in a little blurp at the end of the movie. A very small attempt to possibly dissuade some from getting the 2000 year old propagandistic idea that the Jews and only the Jews were responsible for killing Jesus, and he didn't even follow through with this, and one has to wonder why.
Are you sure you saw the right movie?This movie portrayed those in the lead Roman authority as warm hearted and compassionate and the Jewish head authority as cold-blooded without a caring bone in his body, and all this was spoken without any words, translated or not, but could be understood in any language.
from Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaA top Vatican official who met with Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said Wednesday that no such statement was planned. U.S. Archbishop John P. Foley, who heads the Vatican's social communications office, again praised the film, "The Passion of the Christ," and said he found nothing anti-Semitic in it.
Foley said he had told Foxman that he had found nothing in the film that could be interpreted as anti-Semitic. "Certainly there are some Jews who call for punishment for Jesus," Foley said. But he said the Romans too were depicted harshly.
Father Hallinan, perhaps facetiously, claimed that the film focuses too much on Roman responsibility. "Unsophisticated people viewing the film will see Romans as cold, heartless people. Italians everywhere should be on guard and report anti-Italian sentiments immediately. I wouldn't be surprised at all if anti-Italianites started burning down Italian restaurants and randomly attacking anyone whose name ends in a vowel, and when they do, it will be Mel Gibson's fault" he seethed. No other Christian or Jewish group takes such charges seriously however; there is currently no evidence of anti-Italian hatred being stirred up by the movie.
Andre said:I'm going to watch it tomorrow night (wednesday) with a group of about 40 people from my church, I bought the picture book of the movie yestarday and I stoped about halfway, I didn't want to ruin the movie and I was already crying...
I took a peek at one of the last pages and it really shocked me, take paper tissues if you are going to watch it.
Yep, that's the book. I think it'll be a great tool to refresh the memories of the movie after we watch it. It has some nice pictures.CeCe said:If that's the book with the foreward by Mel Gibson, I got something in the mail about that. I may have to buy it.
I bought one of those "purse packs" of kleenex for that very reason. Still have a few more days to wait. It was sold out the first few days. Let us know what you thought.
simchat_torah said:I have not heard any such thing anywhere in the media. Are you sure you're not simply relying upon rumors?
Are you sure you saw the right movie?
Your opinion of Gibson's portrayal of the Jews is up for debate, however, there is absolutely no way anyone can say that the romans were portrayed as 'warm hearted' in this film. I'm not sure if you were joking or trying to trick us here on the forums. Every critic says that the roman guards were portrayed as absolute savage monsters, very very ruthless and ferocious. This simply isn't up for debate, its fact.
Again, I hope for the better... that you saw the wrong movie and aren't purposefully trying to decieve the audience here.
shalom,
yafet
If that promise was made, and then I'd like to see where Mr. Gibson made this promise. Otherwise, we all on this forum can chalk it up to another rumor.Mr. Gibson in reaction to the concern over outbreaks of anti-Semitism pledged to add at the end of the movie this statement:
The Roman Empire crucified more than 800,000 men, but only one came back from the grave
Ok, I was just checking... because your statements were so radically different than what is actually shown on screen.Quote:![]()
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Pretty sure, I still have the ticket stubs from the tickets given me by my Rabbi friend, the local news van was there and from what we were told in the theatre we were but a few hundred in the whole state that got to see it on Monday.
Sir this is the second time you have accused me of lying, or more accurately , purposefully trying to deceive.
Zayit said:
Because of a myriad of concerns expressed by Jews, both believers and unbelievers he had promised weeks ago to put in a little blurp at the end of the movie. A very small attempt to possibly dissuade some from getting the 2000 year old propagandistic idea that the Jews and only the Jews were responsible for killing Jesus, and he didn't even follow through with this, and one has to wonder why.
Just as I thought... based on a rumor.In the interview with Diane Sawyer, she asks him if he would put a postscript at the end of the film. His response was, "Well, that assumes that there is something wrong with my film for me to do that, and I don't think there is."
I have the interview saved on TIVO. Its at the 24 minute mark.
Aish.com has backed up this statment by Mike EvansA Gibson spokesman said final editing would be completed soon. Gibson has reportedly decided to delete the high priest's "blood curse" utterance. People also will be watching to see whether he follows a pastor's advice to add a line at the fade-out ("During the Roman occupation, 250,000 Jews were crucified by the Romans, but only One rose from the dead") to ease concerns about anti-Semitism.
We do not know the exact depiction of the Passion that will be presented in the final version of Mel Gibsons film.
Numerous Christian and Jewish leaders have seen pre-release versions of The Passion and concurred that the version they saw was problematic for a variety of reasons including: the inclusion of a biblical passage closely associate with the charge of deicide, the nature of Jewish crowd scenes, skewed portrayals Roman and Jewish leaders, and reliance upon extra-biblical sources. It is possible, although highly unlikely, that Gibson may yet respond to earlier criticisms and edit the film. We will not know until the final version of the film is released if it contains each exact scene that caused concern. As a result, comments about the film at this time should be more general than specific.Unfortunately, this statement does not appreciably alleviate the myriad concerns about a film that will be seen around the world for many years to come.It has been reported that, to deter charges of anti-Semitism, Gibson will now end the film with the statement: "During the Roman occupation, 250,000 Jews were crucified by the Romans, but only One rose from the dead."