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To: DMaA who wrote (32640)	3/2/2004 11:59:10 AM
From: redfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793691

I think it is reasonable for Jewish people to wish Christianity never existed, much less movies be made out of it. Christianity hasn't been the greatest thing in the world for them.

To: DMaA who wrote (32640)	3/2/2004 12:03:49 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793691

Here are the numbers I have been waiting for. Nice to see Rich red faced. A year ago they were sniggering at Mel for losing 25 Million. Now watch the sneers that "he is making a profit off Jesus." Hope He Didn't Bet on the Oscars "It's hard to imagine the movie being anything other than a flop in America, given that it has no major Hollywood stars and that its dialogue is in Aramaic and Latin (possibly without benefit of subtitles)." -- Times editor turned columnist Frank Rich, attacking Mel Gibson's movie about the last hours of Christ, August 3. "The Passion of the Christ," Mel Gibson's new film about the Crucifixion, continued its strong box-office run over the weekend. It took in an estimated $76.2 million over Friday, Saturday and Sunday, for a total of $117.5 million since it opened Wednesday. That is the second-highest five-day total ever for a Wednesday opening, behind only 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,' which made $124.1 million in its first five days in December. 'Passion' had the highest opening-day ticket sales of any February film in Hollywood history." -- Evelyn Nussenbaum, March 1 New York Times.

To: DMaA who wrote (32640)	3/2/2004 12:09:56 PM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 793691

If the covenant with abraham contained a negative view of another people(the hobbits) and If jews acting superior went after the hobbits and committed brutal acts against them throughout history and some extreme jews took the star of david and twisted it as a symbol and committed genocide against those same hobbits, i wouldnt expect the hobbits to be feel very sanguine when the movie about gods covenant with abraham was released by a guy who was the son of a hobbit holocaust denier and an opponent of the liberalization in the jewish religion that was more aceepting of hobbits.

To: DMaA who wrote (32640)	3/2/2004 11:16:25 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793691

The movie is a faithful enactment of a central focus of the Gospel No, it's an interpretation of the Passion, with non-scriptural elements thrown in to add to the interpretation. It could have shown greater fidelity to scripture, but Mel Gibson chose to use some artistic license to heighten the torture/suffering aspect of the story. Since Gibson's story bears more than a passing influence to the traditional Passion Story as told at Oberammergau (one of Hitler's favorties), it's hardly surprising that it should raise alarms with Jews. This type of Passiona story has lead to cries of "Christ-killer!" and lynch mobs for hundreds of years. Jews remember this. Christians don't, for the most part. Jews and Christians just don't see the same movie, as Praeger pointed out.