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Thread ID: 5415 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2003-03-08
2003-03-08 15:25 | User Profile
LA rabbi asks Mel Gibson to reconsider Jesus film Friday March 7 10:03 PM ET
A prominent Jewish leader on Friday asked actor Mel Gibson to make certain that his new film on the last 12 hours in the life of Christ does not portray the Jews as collectively responsible for the crucifixion.
Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said he was concerned because an article to be published in the New York Times Magazine portrays Gibson as a traditionalist Catholic opposed to the reforms of Vatican II.
Heir said, "Obviously, no one has seen 'The Passion' and I certainly have no problem with Mel Gibson's right to believe as he sees fit or make any movie he wants to. What concerns me, however is when I read that the film's purpose is to undo the changes made by Vatican II."
He said that Vatican conclave was convened to deal with several critical issues, including the rejection of the notion that the Jews were collectively responsible for the death of Jesus.
"If the new film seeks to undo Vatican II ... it would unleash more of the scurrilous charges of deicide directed against the Jewish people, which took the Catholic Church 20 centuries to finally repudiate," he said.
Gibson is completing the self-financed film on the last 12 hours in the life of Christ and a friend of the Gibson family is quoted as telling the Times that Gibson will graphically portray the intense suffering of Christ, "perhaps as no film has done before." Gibson is directing the film.
The friend, Gary Giuffre, a traditionalist Catholic, also said that the film will lay the blame for the death of Christ where it belongs -- a reference that some traditionalists believe means the Jewish authorities who presided over his trial, the article said.
A spokesman for Gibson had no comment, saying he had not seen the article. Sources close to the actor said Gibson's religious views and those of his family were known.
Discussing his film in a recent TV interview, Gibson was asked whether his account might particularly upset Jews. He said, "It may. It's not meant to. I think it's meant to just tell the truth." Reuters/Variety
2003-03-08 15:37 | User Profile
Tell it like it is, Mel.
Controversy Builds Around Gibson's Passion
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ââ¬â After waging war against what they see as radical changes made by the Vatican, Catholic traditionalists have a new weapon: star power in the person of actor Mel Gibson, according to an article to be published on Sunday in The New York Times Magazine. Gibson, a follower of traditional Catholicism, with its Latin mass and rejection of Vatican II reforms, helped finance construction of a new traditionalist church near Malibu, Calif., and is completing Passion, a self-financed, non-subtitled film in two dead languages ââ¬â Aramaic and Latin ââ¬â on the last 12 hours of Christ's life, the article said.
A friend of the Gibson family is quoted as telling the article's author, freelance writer Christopher Noxon, that Gibson will graphically portray the intense suffering of Christ, "perhaps as no film has done before." Gibson is directing the film.
The friend, Gary Giuffre, a traditionalist Catholic, also said that the film will lay the blame for the death of Christ "where it belongs" ââ¬â a reference that some traditionalists believe means the Jewish authorities who presided over his trial, the article said.
A spokesman for Gibson had no comment, saying he had not seen the article. Sources close to the actor said Gibson's religious views and those of his family were known.
In January, Gibson told television host Bill O'Reilly that Noxon was doing a "hit piece" on him, digging into his private life and harassing his father, Hutton Gibson, an opponent of the Vatican for 30 years and author of such books as Is the Pope Catholic?
In an interview with Noxon, the elder Gibson is quoted as saying that Vatican II was "a Masonic plot backed by the Jews." Sources who know the actor say that he and his father have many differences of opinion.
In his interview with O'Reilly, Gibson was asked whether his account might particularly upset Jews. He said, "It may. It's not meant to. I think it's meant to just tell the truth."
2003-03-10 12:57 | User Profile
Originally posted by Exelsis_Deo@Mar 8 2003, 15:25 **LA rabbi asks Mel Gibson to reconsider Jesus film Friday March 7 10:03 PM ET
A prominent Jewish leader on Friday asked actor Mel Gibson to make certain that his new film on the last 12 hours in the life of Christ does not portray the Jews as collectively responsible for the crucifixion.**
I'd say he needs to talk to Paul and Matthew... not Mel...
**1 Thessalonians
2:14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
2:15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: **
**Matthew
27:25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children. **
My view is ..." be careful what you ask for..."