Gibson breaks Hollywood's 10 Commands

Hollywood Reporter ^ | 3-17-04 | Martin A. Grove

[truthandlife]

'Passion' ping

[4CJ]

11. Thou shalt EMPLOY Hollywood superstars, production crews etc.

They miss their piece of the pie.

[dansangel]

In breaking or bending so many of Hollywood's basic rules -- studio development executives would probably give them the punchier name Ten Commands rather than Ten Commandments -- Gibson showed considerable courage that's paid off big-time for him.

GOOD! As one who has completely boycotted Hollywierd for the past 3 and a half years, I applaud Mr. Gibson's courage. Our foray into the theaters to see "The Passion" twice broke our boycott (in a sense), but it was more than well worth it.

I hope the Hollywierd moguls consume themselves with jealousy. Idiots.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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NEVER FORGET



KERRY called us "WE WERE SOLDIERS" Soliders in Vietnam ...TERRORISTS


MEL's "PASSION" was sparked by "WE WERE SOLDIERS"

http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=39081



I wonder who got it right..?



NEVER FORGET

[AnAmericanMother]

Don't you hate it when folks have no idea how to use the 2nd person singular? :-D

That said, this is an entertaining piece. Gibson broke all the rules, and now he's crying all the way to the bank, while the H'wood types are just crying.

[ex-snook]

The Gibson film was preaching Christ crucified. Critics of the film think it was about them.

What they do not grasp is "And Paul says in his letters that to preach Jesus crucified is a stumbling block and a scandal and that is not the wisdom of the world. " Then and now those rejecting Christ just adopt new guises.

The Christ they want is a military leader to conquer land and peoples or one who dies of old age while preaching. They got neither. Instead, what the world got was God's message of redemption. The suffering film shows no greater love than One willingly giving His life as a sacrifice for sin. His Blood is the Passover of the Lamb. Thank God.

[mlmr]

Green grosses: As saints go, you wouldn't expect a connection between St. Patrick and "The Passion of the Christ."

St Patrick has everything to do with the Passion of Christ. Without Christ, there would be no ST. Patrick.

[Liz]

Hollyweirdos are scratching their collective heads trying to figure out how to make money on the Bible genre while listening to their favorite new song: " Oh, What A Friend We Have in Jesus. "

[newgeezer]

Plus, there's the lawsuit against the pirates.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

It took guts to do "The Passion."

Self-financing the production was one thing, but scripting it in ancient languages with subtitles in all modern languages was something else. A truly impressive artistic decision.

That makes The Passion equally accessible to everyone who can read, in that sense more like a painting or sculpture than a movie. And makes it eligible to become a true classic.

It couldn't have been done by a studio; where are you going to find a committee able to make that kind of gutsy call?

And all that would have been true whether it initially scored at the box office or not.

[chadwimc]

Here's what "they" don't tell you... Saint Patrick was the only one who saw the snakes...(A lil' dig at my Irish wife)

[Aquinasfan]

Moreover, given reports of how distributors around town turned down the chance to release "Passion," it's clear that nobody saw this as being the moneymaker it's become.

If "nobody" excludes people outside of Hollywood.

Regardless, God knew how big this movie would become. And he saw to it that Mel reaped the reward for being a good and faithful servant.

[Aquinasfan]

It took guts to do "The Passion."

I read hear yesterday that he invested $30 million of his $50 million personal fortune, making him Man of the Decade, IMHO.

[nickcarraway]

ping

[nickcarraway]

I read that too. Meaning, he wasn't just blowing play money, he staked over half his personal money.

[beckett]

A balanced appraisal of Gibson's remarkable business acumen. Indeed, as the author says, if Gibson is able to follow on Passion's success with another one or two films on anything close to a similar scale, Gibson will have changed the course of Hollywood history and singlehandedly re-structured the business model of that town.

[beckett]

Ha Ha! I'd pay good money to see all the "players" in Hollyweird singing that song at a producer's party up in Bel Air on a Saturday night.

[Liz]

....I'd pay good money to see all the "players" in Hollyweird singing ("What A Friend We Have in Jesus") at a producer's party up in Bel Air on a Saturday night.....

Heheh. I can the warped Hollywhores singing and holding hands on the beach at Malibu.......before they "light up."

[Bacon Man]

The more people were told they couldn't see it, the more they wanted to see it.

I never thought about it before now but Mel has successfully used the "You can't come" marketing strategy from the episode of South Park where Cartman buys a amusement park!