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To: Ilaine who wrote (32002)	2/27/2004 7:56:25 PM
From: E	Respond to of 793597

They love it, despite its disregard of their own guidelines, I see, and despite this bs, which they admit, but think is okay to have in the film: "However, the most visually distinctive representatives of Jewish authority - the High Priest Caiphas (Matia Sbragia) and those in the Sanhedrin aligned with him – do come across as almost monolithically malevolent. Caiphas is portrayed as adamant and unmerciful and his influence on Pilate is exaggerated. Conversely, Pontius Pilate (Hristo Naumov Shopov) is almost gentle with Jesus, even offering his prisoner a drink. This overly sympathetic portrayal of the procurator as a vacillating, conflicted and world-weary backwater bureaucrat, averse to unnecessary roughness and easily coerced by both his Jewish subjects and his conscience-burdened wife, does not mesh with the Pilate of history remembered by the ancient historians as a ruthless and inflexible brute responsible for ordering the execution of hundreds of Jewish rabble-rousers without hesitation." Not to mention the slaughter of the Samaritans and other barbarities so vile they got him fired. Why did Gibson portray Pontius Pilate so tenderly and Caiphas and those in the Sanhedrin aligned with him as almost "monolithically malevolent"? Because he wanted to, I guess.