50. "your problem is u wanted the movie to be something it wasn't meant to be" In response to In response to 22 Wed Mar-21-07 03:28 PM by 40thStreetBlack
>And in response to Mel touching people, it's because he chose >a subject matter that touches a lot of people in real life. >People cried because they watched an actor play a person that >they worship as he got beaten and killed. > >Violence is always painful, especially when the subject is >someone you actually care about in real life, so of course >people cried. That doesn't have much to do with storytelling, >it has to do with the passionate delivery of subject matter >that people can relate to.
the folks crying and wailing and falling out in the theater and all that, sure. but it was still a very moving story from a strictly dramatic perspective.
>As I said above, it's a passion project, and on that level, it >works because the passion touched so many people. But I'm a >Christian who also happens to be a jaded film viewer, and I >was left cold by the violence.
A Christian left cold by violence? what are you, a Quaker? LOL
> I wanted to watch Jim Caviezel >play Jesus, and he didn't get to until the flashbacks about >2/3rds of the way through the movie.
Jesus is more complex than just the hippie peace & love preacher giving the sermon on the mount though. I mean, the opening scene depicts Christ's agony in Gethsemane - that's not playing Jesus? (and Caviezel played the hell out of that scene btw) What are they teaching you kids in Sunday school these days?
>I thought the last third >of The Passion was really quite good, but the first 2/3rds >left me cold and made me wonder exactly why Mel would show so >much violence and not justify it from a storytelling >perspective.
he did justify it. he just didn't justify it the way *you* wanted it to be justified. that doesn't invalidate the justification or make it work any less well from a storytelling perspective.
>Those who went to The Passion wanting to understand more about >Jesus's death got that.
and that's exactly what The Passion set out to do.
>But those who went to The Passion >wanting to understand more about Jesus as a figure (myself >included) were left unsatisfied for roughly the first hour of >the film.
that's your problem. like I said, you wanted this movie to be something it wasn't and was never meant to be.