I had been somewhat worried about how insensitive TPotC might be, but I was planning on keeping an open mind until I saw it for myself.
Then I ran across this article: http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-02/04/11.15.film or http://makeashorterlink.com/?J5EB23F47 Gibson Cuts Passion Scene Mel Gibson, responding to focus groups as much as to protests by Jewish critics, has decided to delete a controversial scene about Jews from his film, The Passion of the Christ, a close associate told The New York Times. A scene in the film, in which the Jewish high priest Caiaphas calls down a kind of curse on the Jewish people by declaring of the Crucifixion, "His blood be on us and on our children," will not be in the movie's final version, the Gibson associate, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the newspaper. The passage had been included in some versions of the film that were shown before select groups, mostly of priests and ministers, the Times reported. "It didn't work in the focus screenings," the associate said. "Maybe it was thought to be too hurtful, or taken not in the way it was intended. It has been used terribly over the years." Jewish leaders had warned that the passage from Matthew 27:25 was the historic source for many of the charges of deicide and Jews' collective guilt in the death of Jesus, the newspaper reported. The Passion has been the subject of fears by Jewish groups that it might incite anti-Semitism. The Passion is slated to open Feb. 25, Ash Wednesday. Reggie Bautista _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
