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To: LindyBill who wrote (30622)	2/20/2004 6:16:57 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793846

What Gibson did that was genius in promotion was putting up a Quicktime clip from the movie months ago on his website. I don't expect non-Christians to immediately connect with the imagery but it's extremely powerful, visually. Everybody I know who has seen the video finds it awesome. That, more than anything else, is spreading the word of mouth. I mean, this is the guy who made "Braveheart" and "The Patriot" - he knows how to tell a story. I just looked at the official trailers - I think the ones he had last year were better. He appears to be using sepia tones to mute some of the bloodier scenes.

To: LindyBill who wrote (30622)	2/20/2004 6:55:23 PM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793846

Doctors from the Mayo Clinic, Dept. of Pathology published this account of the Crucifixion from a medical standpoint: "On the Physical Death of Jesus Christ" holytrinity.ok.goarch.org reprint from: Journal of the American Medical Assoc., March 1986

To: LindyBill who wrote (30622)	2/20/2004 7:12:52 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793846

The Roman method was that the main timber was carried by the person to be crucified, and the cross piece was roped on at the site after it had been planted in the ground. The upright at a crucifixion was either a tree trunk or a timber 16 or 18 feet long (so they could sink 4 feet to stabilize it), much too long for the prisoner to have dragged the cross through the streets. Roman streets were full of stepping stones at corners so that pedestrians could cross the street without stepping into horse manure. This would have made dragging the whole thing even more impossible. But, that's how traditional Catholic iconography shows it when portraying the Stations of the Cross, so that's how Mel Gibson will show it.