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In Reply to: RE: Ugh! you want my review of the blu-ray? posted by Jazz Inmate on February 14, 2008 at 13:18:31
His life here would have fulfilled NO purpose.
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Much of Gibson's "Passion" movie falls into the category of "artistic license" that is not directly attributable to any of the gospels. The point is what he as a director decides to show and what he decides to not show. In music, silence can be more important than filling the space with notes. Hitchcock's artistry had that kind of feel to it. Gibson is a hack, not an artist--regardless whether he's making a film about Christ or about Mayans or about a cop with a screw loose.
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
-------------"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." -Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
(Posted as comments, not preaching.)
With regard to the "passion"; the suffering, death, and resurrection of Christ define Christianity. Remove those and Jesus is just another teacher; not the Son of God sent to restore the broken bond with Man. I understand what Gibson tried to do, but he badly overdid it and created a caricature.I thought some scenes in "Passion" were brilliantly done; Pilate's wife meeting Mary; Mary mopping her Son's blood from the cobbles; the trembling hand of the adulteress reaching for Jesus' foot as he defends her from the mob; Mary's flashback to the toddler Jesus falling when He stumbles with the cross. I find it hard to accept that they came from the the same creative source as the rubber 'scourge' suit and the buckets of blood and gore. In "Apocalypto", he did it again; squandering a carefully crafted Mayan reality on a fake blood-drenched imagery and a hokey pursuit story.
There's either someone else behind the Director's curtain, or Mel got two very conflicted sides and better not fall off the meds. Or maybe he knows each gallon of blood is worth $10 million in receipts.
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy - WB Yeats
reacting, soldiers running, Jesus ascending, clouds parting--- all in minute detail.
Gibson should have been born in Spain several hundred years ago. His true calling would have been that of right-hand man to Torquemada.
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