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French block Passion of the Christ
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| March 1, 2004
| By Kim Willsher
Posted on 02/29/2004 3:40:25 PM PST by miltonim
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To: ZULU
I have the same reasoning but a different conclussion. Given the rampant anti-Semitism in France, this film could hardly start it. I guess one could worry it would ramp it up some.
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posted on
02/29/2004 3:59:00 PM PST
by
JLS
To: miltonim
French boycott Mel Gibson??. That should even help the ratings...., and a country that now practices censorship, this will put them in a real pickle. For sure they can't be refusing the movie because of the English lanugage, I venture to wager that French people will go to the black market and this item will be available. About the movie being Anti Semitic?...How about Anti Roman!, it was the soldiers in the movie who with gusto, glee and glamour enjoyed the saddistic moment . THEY proved to be the real villains in the movie. So, let's hate Romans! (That message wasn't even in the movie.) Crazy world, some call 'evil' good, and others call 'good' evil.
To: miltonim
France's large and growing Muslim population, combined with the strength of right-wing parties in some French districts, have contributed to an atmosphere that has alarmed political and Jewish leaders. What evidence do they present that would lead the reader to believe that right-wing parties in France are the cause of French Antisemitism?
To: Eala
EXCELLENT POINT! No problem here in Lake Jackson Texas. The theater was full of Christian church groups when we saw it LATE Wednesday night, and many of the movie goers had the mark of the cross still on their foreheads, put there by pastors and priests, with ashes. They were not an angry mob after the movie, everyone sat there in silence when the movie was over. No one moved for a few moments. No one ate their popcorn during the movie. It was very intense. It was very moving. It was NOT mob arrousing or angering.
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posted on
02/29/2004 4:00:39 PM PST
by
buffyt
(Real Patriots Don't Sell Out Their Fellow Soldiers!! (Cake_crumb quote about J Kerry))
To: dinok
I'm sure there is a phycological defect there somewhere. Maybe they could get some help here?
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posted on
02/29/2004 4:01:08 PM PST
by
Eala
(Sacrificing tagline fame for... TRAD ANGLICAN RESOURCE PAGE: http://eala.freeservers.com/anglican)
To: buffyt
They were not an angry mob after the movie, everyone sat there in silence when the movie was over. No one moved for a few moments. No one ate their popcorn during the movie. It was very intense. It was very moving. It was NOT mob arrousing or angering. Same here in Seattle.
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posted on
02/29/2004 4:02:43 PM PST
by
Eala
(Sacrificing tagline fame for... TRAD ANGLICAN RESOURCE PAGE: http://eala.freeservers.com/anglican)
To: miltonim
Ah yes French logic at work, because a bunch of Islamofacists burnt down Synagogues and attacked Jews, they won't show a Christian movie o.O
Yes its all clear now...
The truth is more likely that a country of liberals just can't stand the light of truth being shined upon them from this movie, I doubt they could care the least about the Jew's in their midst.
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posted on
02/29/2004 4:04:14 PM PST
by
battousai
(Coming Soon to an election near you: Pasty White Hillary and the Nine umm Three? Dwarfs!)
To: buffyt
"
I saw Satan weaving in and out of the crowd, I think he was the one who was making it so difficult for Christ. Not the Romans, or the jews, or the mob, or the king..."
I think he's been weaving around france, too. It's a shame. Some people don't want the truth, and would deny it to everyone.
To: William Martel
"Sadly, I think that this decision has less to do with legitimate fears of anti-semitism than the anti-Christian bigotries of socialist France"
. . . from "the first daughter of the Church". France has come a long way since Jean de Arc.
The Muslim population no doubt is a big factor.
BTW, wasn't THE HAMMER Charles? What did William do?
To: attiladhun2
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'nuff said... hee-hee-hee...
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posted on
02/29/2004 4:08:56 PM PST
by
Dick Vomer
(liberals suck....but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is .)
To: miltonim
"...because of fears that it may spark a new outbreak of anti-Semitism."More to the point, it could spark a new outbreak of faith in Jesus Christ, something the French elites fear more than anything else. The months will roll by, there will be no spike in anti-Semitic incidents in the US, Germany and Australia, and the French will have to concoct a new excuse to deny this film a fair showing.
To: hershey
I wonder how long French film distributors will hold out before deciding that they'd make so much money with Passion, they'll do a Kerry? France has prohibitions on how many "foreign" films can be screened there in a year. French film distributors may be holding out so that screens will be able to show more Johnny Depp movies.
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posted on
02/29/2004 4:10:30 PM PST
by
weegee
(Election 2004: Re-elect President Bush... Don't feed the trolls.)
To: buffyt
It is such a great movie. I came away from it with the notion that it was Satan who was tormenting Christ, who was instigating the painful torture and beating, trying to get Christ to back out. Christ didn't back out, He didn't back down. I saw Satan weaving in and out of the crowd, I think he was the one who was making it so difficult for Christ. Not the Romans, or the jews, or the mob, or the king... You know what I just came back from Sunday mass and our priest was talking about the movie during his sermon and he made the very same point, he joked that if anything Italians should be mad too since the Romans weren't shown to be a likable bunch either (its a majority Italian parish), but he said what he got from the movie was that the enemy is Satan, not one group of people or another, but the devil, and he felt it was accurate to the Gospels. I have yet to see it but intend to as soon as I get a chance.
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posted on
02/29/2004 4:11:59 PM PST
by
battousai
(Coming Soon to an election near you: Pasty White Hillary and the Nine umm Three? Dwarfs!)
To: miltonim
OK. I'm going to ask a silly question here, but why are they (the French) worrying about the Muslims going to see this movie? While I understand the potential for anti-semitism, it seems to me the Muslims wouldn't want to see the movie in the first place. I mean, how many people on this board would go and see a movie about Mohamed?
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posted on
02/29/2004 4:12:59 PM PST
by
sl-17b
(Piss off a liberal by using your brain.)
To: miltonim
The French acting cowardly and craven? Who ever heard of such a thing?
Dan
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posted on
02/29/2004 4:14:31 PM PST
by
Scannall
(I used to be liberal, then I graduated from college and started paying taxes.)
To: sl-17b
I mean, how many people on this board would go and see a movie about Mohamed? I would... if they served bacon cheeseburgers in the confectionery, I'd be happily munching away on the bacon :)
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posted on
02/29/2004 4:16:16 PM PST
by
battousai
(Coming Soon to an election near you: Pasty White Hillary and the Nine umm Three? Dwarfs!)
To: miltonim
When we distributed It's a Beautiful Life we were worried about the risk of making a comedy about the Holocaust I'm not sure I would call that (Life is Beautiful) a comedy.
Why is it so many people can't figure out the first thing about the movies they have such concern over?
Even something like Starship Troopers; it was criticized as a bad shoot-em-up movie, when it was blatant satire of debatable quality.
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posted on
02/29/2004 4:16:53 PM PST
by
JohnnyZ
(People don't just bump into each other and have sex. This isn't Cinemax! -- Jerry)
To: miltonim
Morons. The problem in France isn't with Christians. It's with Muslims first, Socialists second, and greedy businessmen and politicians who want to do business with the Arabs third.
I, too, think that the French authorities fear a revival of Christianity in France.
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posted on
02/29/2004 4:18:29 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: miltonim
Maybe this censorship will jolt some French out of their apathetic mindset.
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posted on
02/29/2004 4:19:48 PM PST
by
Kay
To: miltonim
The French have gotten themselves in a pretty little bind, now don't they? They have let in so many muslims they are now threatened in their own country and don't dare upset "them." Ah the religion of peace, how your scent so resembles aged French cheese.
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posted on
02/29/2004 4:25:44 PM PST
by
Libertina
(The Passion of the Christ - inspired, inspiring. Thank you Mel Gibson!)
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