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A movie and its meaning: Mel Gibson's Passion is for all time.(The Passion of the Christ)(Movie Review)
BY the fifteenth minute of The Passion of the Christ, Jesus's right eye has swollen nearly shut. It stays that way for the next two hours. It is a brutal, almost unbearably brutal, movie. From the very beginning in the Garden of Gethsemane, the punches are real. The violence is not cool or "balletic." The movie is not, in that sense, a Mel Gibson movie. If it is true that movies make their money at the concession stands, he has been even more daring than we thought. This is not a movie that will sell popcorn. Nor is it a movie that is guaranteed to appeal to the most common American styles of piety. This is a country where Easter is more popular than Good Friday, and ...
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- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England) April 18, 2004 700+ words
...The Passion Of The Christ, one of the most popular movies this year. Box office...on March 12. But movie watchdogs say that...fourth in the top 10 movies of 2004. In first...the final hour of Christ's life and gives...
- The Passion and the fury: why has a reverent movie about Jesus Christ become...
- Magazine article from: The New American Jasper, William F. March 22, 2004 700+ words
...is it about this movie that has incited...The Passion of the Christ. The critics who...savagely attacking the movie and its creator would...magazines, newspapers, movies, television, radio...The Passion of the Christ is the most virulently anti-Semitic movie made since the German...
- Christians protest cable TV showing of movie on Christ
- Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post Itim May 7, 1995 700+ words
...07-1995 HUNDREDS of Christian residents of Haifa demonstrated last night against the screening of the Last Temptation of Christ on cable television. Police said the demonstration was illegal, and used tear gas and large police forces to disperse the...
- Religion Professor Says Movie Images of Christ Powerful
- Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered April 3, 1994 700+ words
...explores how different movies reveal what Americans...ZWERDLING: Let's take a movie from the 1960s, The...the- he is, in this movie, the heroic Jesus...Martin Scorcese's movie, The Last Temptation of Christ. Prof. HUMPHRIES...
- Movie 'Passion of Christ' Draws Most Viewers Over Weekend.
- News wire article from: YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea April 13, 2004 700+ words
...Yonhap) -- "The Passion of the Christ," a film depicting the final hours and crucifixion of Jesus Christ directed by Mel Gibson, was...Legend of the Wind," a local movie about an ordinary man who takes...Taegukgi," a local hit movie about the 1950-53 Korean War...
- Movie Review: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
- Newspaper article from: Cineman Syndicate Cineman Syndicate January 1, 1994 700+ words
...Cineman Syndicate Cineman Syndicate 01-01-1994 Movie Review: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR Starring: Ted Neeley, Carl Anderson Released...filmed on location in the Holy Land. The story of Christ is enacted to the beat of rock music and with some...
- NEWSWEEK COVER: 'Who Really Killed Jesus?'; New Movie 'The Passion of the...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 8, 2004 700+ words
...s controversial new movie "The Passion of the Christ," is reviving an ancient...theologians fear the movie, with its portraits...The Passion of the Christ," Billy Graham has...lifetime of sermons in one movie." In the latest Newsweek...
- Movies: Here's the 'Anti-Christ'.
- Magazine article from: Newsweek March 1, 2004 700+ words
...final hours, "The Passion of the Christ." And in the other, "Club Dread...with a killer. It's the latest movie from the five-man team behind 2003...should market it as 'the anti-Christ movie,' but Fox didn't go for that...
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