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To: Aquinasfan
Did you hear that one Roman say "let's make music" before they started beating Jesus? My husband doesn't speak Latin, but Spanish is his first language, and he said the Roman said that, even though it wasn't subtitled.
433 posted on 02/25/2004 8:36:03 PM PST by wimpycat ("Black holes are where God divided by zero.")
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To: wimpycat
"let's make music"

yep. I recognized a bit of the Latin from my high school days.

The subtitles weren't a problem for those of us who know the Gospels, so we knew what was being said much of the time.

442 posted on 02/25/2004 8:49:13 PM PST by patriciaruth
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Did you hear that one Roman say "let's make music" before they started beating Jesus?

The amateur Latin scholar in me heard something to that effect, too. There were other colloquialisms in the soldiers' mockings, though I can't recall any right now. While the movie was overwhelming to me, one of my "escape hatches" was to listen to the sounds themselves. A few other random things I couldn't help but notice: 1. Pilate's educated Latin (think of his exchanges with Claudia, which could have been easily translated in a Latin class) was distinct from the cruder, less carefully enunciated Latin of the torturers. 2. The pronunciations were not "classical" but "vulgar" as was appropriate. 3. Jesus' Latin had something of a Semitic accent, to make it clear that it was not his native tongue. 4. Pilate's Aramaic seemed similarly accented. 5. The soldiers only spoke Latin amongst themselves, and the religious leaders did not speak Latin to the Roman officials.

476 posted on 02/26/2004 2:03:59 AM PST by Tex_GOP_Cruz (Remember Estrada!)
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To: wimpycat
Did you hear that one Roman say "let's make music" before they started beating Jesus?

I don't know Latin, but I wouldn't be surprised. Apparently, the line, "his blood be on us and on our children" is spoken in the movie, but not subtitled either.

500 posted on 02/26/2004 5:02:24 AM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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