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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (80467)	3/8/2004 3:21:07 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

The title of the movie could be The Passion of the "Heretic," and it could be advertised as "The final 55 hours of an accused heretic's life," or, as it says here, "A Heretic's Final Journey." dimensional.com You could show the Bishops and and Inquisitors working together. Old woodcuts in the section "Instruments and Methods of Torture" shown at the link above will be helpful. Maybe that actor who played Christ would be available to play a heretic. Or a Bishop. Whatever. It would be very dramatic, and it's history, and it wouldn't violate community standards for portraying violence associated with religion.

To: E who wrote (80467)	3/8/2004 3:53:04 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Yikes! You have certainly hit the nail on the head. What a gory movie that would be. "The first impression on entering the chamber was one of bewildering horror; a confused procession of mangled, mutilated, agonising men, speechless in their great woe, the flesh peeled from off their livid sinews, the sockets where eyes had been, hollow and empty, seemed to pass before one. The most dreadful scenes which the great genius of Dante has imagined, appeared tame in comparison with the spectral groups which this chamber summoned up. The first impulse was to escape, lest images of pain, memories of tormented men, who were made to die a hundred deaths in one, should take hold of one's mind, never again to be effaced from it. The things we have been surveying are not the mere models of the instruments made use of in the Holy Office; they are the veritable instruments themselves. We see before us the actual implements by which hundreds and thousands of men and women, many of them saints and confessors of the Lord Jesus, were torn, and mangled, and slain. These terrible realities the men of the sixteenth century had to face and endure, or renounce the hope of the life eternal. Painful they were to flesh and blood ÷nay, not even endurable by flesh and blood unless sustained by the Spirit of the mighty God" Can you imagine the thoughts and the agony of a man like Montaigne in the midst of that?