[Cold Heat]

If the movie had been 100% gospel, it would have been but 15 minutes long.

The extrapolations made were logical and or cinematic, as in the case of the visual of evil.

Evil is everywhere! Not just within the walls of that Jewish town so many years ago.

How it might be seen is imagined by Gibson. As part of a crowd, as a snake, as a tree.

As to making the Jews appear worse than the gospel, Gibson really softened that aspect. some biblical quotations were omitted and great care was taken to convey that not all were complicit, but only a few and even the High priests were not unified.

[Torie]

Perhaps you point is that Kraut ignored where Mel mitigated rather than exacerbated from what was in the gospels, and thus overall one can conclude his overall motive was to make gripping cinema, rather than to settle a score with the Jews. If your point is valid, that is a very trenchant observation, and is the single most effective riposte to Kraut's J'accuse. JMO.