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Thread ID: 12143 | Posts: 7 | Started: 2004-02-04
2004-02-04 14:01 | User Profile
"The Miracle Worker" Mel Gibson's animated life of Christ
Did anyone see Mel Gibson-funded stop-action, 3-D and digitally animated, "The Miracle Worker" when it was run a on network TV?
I wonder why no fuss was made about it?
2004-02-04 14:17 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Faust]I wonder why no fuss was made about it?[/QUOTE] Does it contain the line, "His blood be on us and on our children"?
2004-02-04 14:24 | User Profile
na Gaeil is gile,
No but it does the Pharisees in a bad light and the Romans as not being the one's responsible. The new is also going have that cut. But other than that "The Miracle Worker" had everything else.
2004-02-04 16:07 | User Profile
[url]http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_862322.html?menu=news.latesthea[/url]
Gibson defends father over Holocaust
Mel Gibson has defended his father over claims he is a Holocaust denier.
Hutton Gibson has publicly doubted that six million Jews died during the Second World War.
In an interview with Reader's Digest, Braveheart star Mel said he would not hear any criticism of his father.
"My dad taught me my faith and I believe what he taught me. The man never lied to me in his life," he said, when asked about Hutton's controversial comments.
"He lost his mother at two years of age. He lost his father at 15. He went through the Depression. He signed up for World War Two, served his country fighting the forces of fascism. Came back, worked very hard physically, raised a family, put a roof over my head, clothed me, fed me, taught me my faith, loved me.
"I love him back. So I'll slug it out, until my heart is black and blue, if anyone ever tries to hurt him."
Asked directly if he believed the Holocaust happened, Gibson replied: "I have friends and parents of friends who have numbers on their arms. The guy who taught me Spanish was a Holocaust survivor.
"Yes, of course. Atrocities happen. War is horrible. World War Two killed tens of millions of people. Some of them were Jews in concentration camps. In the Ukraine, several million starved to death between 1932 and 1933."
In an interview with The New York Times, Hutton Gibson told a reporter he doubted the scale of the Holocaust.
"Go and ask an undertaker or the guy who operates the crematorium what it takes to get rid of a dead body," he said. "It takes one litre of petrol and 20 minutes. Now, six million?"
Both father and son are devout followers of the "traditionalist Catholic" faith.
2004-02-12 14:01 | User Profile
The film "The Miracle Worker" does not contain the line, "His blood be on us and on our children." But it does show the Pharisees in a bad light and the Romans as not being the one's responsible. The new film is also going have that part cut out. But other than that "The Miracle Worker" had everything else from the Gospel of Matthew and the old story. It is a good and classic retelling of the story.
Amazon.com does seem to sell "The Miracle Worker." I have not seen it for sale. I wonder if the new film shall suffer the same fate.
2004-02-12 15:02 | User Profile
I couldn't find anything on the 'net about it except this sneery salon.com piece: [QUOTE]Two words you may never have expected to hear uttered in succession: Claymation Jesus. But soon, you'll be able to see Claymation Jesus in action. Ralph Fiennes will give voice to the gummy version of the Christian savior -- joined by Miranda Richardson as Mary Magdalene -- in the Mel Gibson-funded stop-action, 3-D and digitally animated, "The Miracle Worker," set to air on Easter Sunday Y2K. (No, I don't think Helen Keller figures in there anywhere, not even turning wa-wa into wine.) "It sounds funny -- a Claymation life of Jesus," ABC TV exec Jeff Bader recently admitted to the press. "But we screened it and it was spectacular. We were mesmerized by the look of it. It is so different." Now, now ... you can just keep all those sacrilegious quips about clay feet to yourself.[/QUOTE] I doubt claymation is high on Goyfinder General Abe Foxman's priority list. We could remake Der ewige Jude as claymation and it would probably fly right under their radar.
2004-02-17 15:59 | User Profile
[QUOTE=wintermute]Norm is the one in the monocle.[/QUOTE] Norm is quite the iconoclast in his choice of livestock, eschewing the traditional fresh virgin in favour of a tired old whore.