You want to talk about Mel Gibson making a bad film, you want to criticize Mel gibson about how senseless the Passion of the Christ is? Please, watch this movie on TV and you will find more appreciation in what Mel Gibson has done and his portrayal of the suffering of Jesus, than what this ABC special TV movie has sugar coated for our enjoyment....or torture!
This film, called Judas, portrays the life of Christ through the eyes of his abdicated apostle, Judas Iscariot. Good concept of the film, although the movie holds no historical merit whatsoever. But the ball stops rolling at the idea stage. This movie was a load of garbage. Unlike Gibson's film, the movie is soo watered down and sugared up, that it's content seems fantastical. The film's plot alone comes from some writer's imagination of what really happened, and tid bits of the Bible. You accused Mel Gibson of being inaccurate? this movie takes inaccuracy and runs away with it. Mel Gibson used the Bible as a prime source and stayed very true to it for the most part. This ABC crapathon drifts away from the Bible and into lala land. Apparently the apostles, lead by judas, made an attempt to convince Jesus that he should charge for miracles!!!!!! What?!!! WHere is that coming from? And Pontius Pilate and Caiphus used to sit and eat brunch together and chat about Jesus!!! It is really in the movie, I swear!
Mel Gibson made sure that he used authentic people who conveyed some traits of the characters to perform in his movie. The woman who played Mary was quite loving and motherlike (and she was actually with child while filming) and Jim Caviezal was always my choice when i first heard of Gibson's idea, b/c he plays such tortured, yet innocent beings in his films. In Judas, the characters are so badly conveyed and the performers are talentless. Not only that, while Mel gibson chose to take that extra step towards authenticity by filming in aramaic, latin and Hebrew, ABC hired a bunch of British actors who were too lazy or talentless to lose their accents for the film. Everyone sounds British!!! I dunno, but British colonialism didn't start in the B.C. era. And, while Gibson made sure Jim Caviezal looked the part and looked to have come from Jerusalem and that part of the world, 'Judas' has Jesus played by a blonde haired blue-eyed man, who can't act, b/c he portrays Jesus as this joker who loved to chuckle around with the gang(the apostles). Their is no serenity in the performance, that Jesus usually has. Instead you get a Jesus portrayed as the blond haired equivalent of today's loud mouthed televangelists. What the hell?!!!
My point is, this movie is so far from any historical or Biblical truth, and it is of the worst quality in terms of filming and performance as well. So why is there no controversy? This is a worse film, far worse at that, than the one Gibson has made. WHere is the Star's witty remarks and cut throat attitude towards this? Why hasn't this movie been condemned. I mean, surely one can't deny that this film is no where near true to anything, and makes a mockery of Christ's life, and the blue eyed, blonde haired Jesus seems very anti-semetic or rather rascist to me, as no one in that part of the world conveys such traits abnd Jesus is thus shown as cocasian.
I am assuming that the world enjoys the sugar coated version of Christ's life better than they do the actual reality of what the man suffered for the world (again, whether u believe he existed is ur opinion) b/c no one has even talked about this crappy TV movie, despite it's many flaws. Could it be, that the Star and other Toronto papers have seen the lions of the American Press feasting on The Passion, and like hyenas (scavengers) have come to seek the bigger kill, than the one that is smaller and lies in more inaccuracy and poor film standards (even for a TV movie). Seems so to me. The papers here are simply looking to get a piece of the bigger american pie...what else is new...our media empires are always trying to 'americasnize' themselves. Even hyenas on the african plains hold themselves in higher regard than to bow down before lions!
