[truthandlife]

'Passion' ping

[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.

[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.

[nickcarraway]

ping

[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.

[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!

[NordP]

Excellent!