This is almost as bad as Oliver Stone making a movie about 9/11
Does he really have to make a film about the Holocaust?
Mel Gibson, whose film The Passion of the Christ was attacked by Jewish leaders as anti-Semitic, is to make a film about the Holocaust.
The project, being developed as a television mini-series, is likely to attract even more flak, as his father, Hutton, has repeatedly denied that the Holocaust happened.
The actor spent £14 million producing the film on the last days of Christ, making a worldwide gross profit of £351 million, mainly because of the controversy it attracted.
It made more than £2 million within three days of opening in Britain, despite being in Aramaic, Hebrew and Latin. Many screenings were sold out, with churches taking block bookings.
Gibson, a Catholic, was criticised for allegedly portraying "Jewish authorities as the ones responsible for the decision to crucify Christ".
He said he had no wish to offend Jews, but added: "Anybody who transgresses has to look at their own part or look at their own culpability."
posted by GayandRight @ 11:13 PM
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Do you mean it's bizarre to suggest he hasn't distanced himself from the views, or bizarre to suggest that he should distance himself from holocaust denial?
Sounds like you're having a liberal moment here. I am no fan of Gibson's politics, especially his homophobia, but to make a movie of Christ's death in which the Jewish priesthood plays no significant role is just post-Holocaust political correctness. The Romans finally held the power of capital punishment, but without the actions of powerful people in the Jerusalem priesthood, Jesus would not have been arrested in the first place.
Hebrew scriptures, by the way, --and by this I mean the Tanakh-- do not attempt to whitewash Jews, much less the priesthood. If you look there for culpability in the destruction of Jerusalem in 587 bc, you'll see that it is squarely laid on the shoulders of the Jews themselves. Why should the Jerusalem priesthood of Jesus' time be somehow exempt from human passion and bad behavior? No one else is. (That is Gibson's larger point, I think. Even guys who are jerks about issue A can be right about issue B).
I am a very Judeophilic kind of guy and very pro Israel, but the hyperreactivity of some to anything that portrays Jews (or any other group) unfavorably is just rank PC.
Interesting, US Male.
It should also be remembered that Jesus' death was inevitable and happened the way God intended it to. Any culpability by the Jews in the Crucifixion can be seen in that light as part of God's plan, not as a conscious choice.
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