[RobbyS]

I'm sure they don't like Christianity, but all are passionate for [money} I don't think you get it. Unlike the old Jews who ran Hollywood a half century ago, they do HATE Christianity and because the eastern elites share this hatred/contempt, they no longer have to defer to the faith of the majority of ordinary Americans. But you reallly don't know how RADICAL a departure this film is, do you? Unlike Crap like "The Greatest Story Ever Told," it actuallly disturbs audiences, far more deeply than "Saving Private Ryan." It is as if they were to make a film called "Gladiator" realisticallly without all the romantic touches. In a way it is like "Roots,"but pulling no punches.

[Wallace T.]

Agreed. Mel Gibson risked his own money and essentially wrote off his future career as a prominent mainstream actor to make The Passion of the Christ. Imagine if John Wayne, Clark Gable, or Gary Cooper had, circa 1950, abandoned Hollywood to enter politics to further their conservative political agendas. (All three men were what used to be known as rock-ribbed Republicans.) Movie immortality is what Gibson rejected to serve his Lord and Savior by the making of this film against what seemed to be insuperable odds and a phalanx of critics. He succeeded and in so doing embarrassed the liberal elite as no one has since Ronald Reagan.

Gibson deserves the financial reward for the risk he took.