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Mel Gibson and the Maccabees
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| Dec 8th, 2004
Posted on 12/08/2004 11:31:33 AM PST by missyme
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posted on
12/08/2004 11:31:34 AM PST
by
missyme
To: All
A BIT MORE:
When the news of Gibsons interest in Howard Fasts novel was picked up in the media, Foxman reportedly told Fasts widow he would feel more comfortable putting it in the hands of Mr. [Harvey] Weinstein than Mr. Gibson. The irony is delicious.
Weinstein is the Hollywood producer who co-founded Miramax and made X-rated art movies like "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" and "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!" as well as, more recently, "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Kill Bill: Vol. 2." If Harvey Weinstein and motion pictures had been around in 167 B.C.E., Weinstein would have been the guy making controversial films about naked discus-throwing
How secular liberals, Jewish and otherwise, will respond to the new Gibson effort is an interesting question. "The Passion" proved to be an embarrassment for the ADL and others who predicted that the films supposed anti-Semitism would expose Americas Jewish community to medieval-style perils. Of course, no such thing came to pass.
All that the protests succeeded in doing was to ensure that many, many more people would see Gibsons film than would have done so had there (without the ADLs efforts) been no controversy to begin with.
For the folks who made such an aggressive and pointless fuss about "The Passion," there would seem to be two choices. The first is, once again, to raise a ruckus about how Gibson again casts Jews (in this case the secular liberal Hellenizers) as bad guys, and accomplish nothing positive. The other is to let Gibson alone. Personally, not myself being a big fan of the overlong, gratuitously violent "Passion," I would like to see him get back to the kind of spiritual thriller that caught his imagination when he starred in M. Night Shyamalans fabulously gripping "Signs."
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posted on
12/08/2004 11:35:12 AM PST
by
missyme
To: missyme
The Fast novel tells the story of Jewish heroes, circa 167 B.C.E., who defeat Greek oppressors of the Jewish people, retake the Jerusalem Temple, and relight the great menorah. The great menorah?........Is that like the great Pumpkin?.....
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posted on
12/08/2004 11:36:44 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(If the Red States are JESUSLAND, then the Blue States are SATANLAND......)
To: missyme
This guy likes "Signs?" That movie was a yawner.
To: missyme
"Jewish Palestine?"
It's called I S R A E L!
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posted on
12/08/2004 11:36:58 AM PST
by
oldleft
To: missyme
The Greek vision was one of mutual theological acceptance. They were relativists, in the sense we know today, believing that not only the God of Israel but all the gods should be worshipped at the Jerusalem Temple--and believing that dissenters from their tolerance deserved to be suppressed. Ah yes! We won't tolerate intolerance. We've heard that many times of late.
To: missyme
Weinstein is the Hollywood producer who co-founded Miramax and made X-rated art movies like "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" and "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!" Both of those films were British/European productions. Not Mirimax.
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posted on
12/08/2004 11:41:05 AM PST
by
Borges
To: missyme
So whats so offensive? If this sounds, on the contrary, like a mollifying gesture to ADL national director Abraham Foxman, you might want to look a little more closely at what Hanukkah is actually about. Translation: We really can't find anything to complain about, but we will anyway.
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posted on
12/08/2004 11:41:32 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
To: missyme
These same 'Greek' customs went a wee bit farther...and the young Jews were being enticed away from Judaism by the worldly Greeks
Saint Paul also addressed these same proclivities during his ministry to the Greeks
Hitler and friends also greatly admired the 'Greek' lifestyle of the day...
Read all about it....The Pink Swastika
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posted on
12/08/2004 11:45:14 AM PST
by
joesnuffy
(Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
To: missyme
I hope Gibson does this. I hope he portrays the Hanukkah story as a story of orthodox religious believers triumping over urban secular oppressors. I hope he uses all Jewish actors too. The social fallout from that would be a magnificent sight to behold. Do you suppose the liberal elite would cry out against it, even though they might be percieved as anti-Semetic? Or would they dare to grin and bear it?
To: missyme
This was a way of social climbing. By embracing Greek culture, with its aggressive relativism, ambitious Jewish elites hoped to improve their own social standing in Greek eyes.Like John kerry's Jewish ancestor became Catholic when the boat landed in Boston
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posted on
12/08/2004 11:46:28 AM PST
by
elbucko
(Feral Republican)
To: missyme
"effacing their circumcisions through a surgical operation involving cutting a flap of skin around the penis and letting it hang by weights."
OOOWWW!
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posted on
12/08/2004 11:48:04 AM PST
by
dljordan
To: joesnuffy
I think many of the Nazi's were closet homosexuals....
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posted on
12/08/2004 11:49:31 AM PST
by
missyme
To: missyme
Okay...? What offense is this supposed to be warning me about? Unless Mel is planning to show men
"effacing their circumcisions through a surgical operation involving cutting a flap of skin around the penis and letting it hang by weights", I'm not sure what the problem is.
(now that's GOTTA hurt!)
To: missyme
Re: "The Greek vision was one of mutual theological acceptance. They were relativists, in the sense we know today, believing that not only the God of Israel but all the gods should be worshiped at the Jerusalem Temple--and believing that dissenters from their tolerance deserved to be suppressed."
It isn't just secular-humanist that will be offended. Expect many Bishops and Cardinals in the Catholic Church to take offense. Maccabees is ripe for comparison with the post-Vatican II Church's abandonment of old Catholic dogma, including but not limited to "Outside the Church there is no salvation" and the changes to the liturgy;. Expect Protestants to be offended as well.
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posted on
12/08/2004 11:50:48 AM PST
by
Mark in the Old South
(Note to GOP "Deliver or perish" Re: Specter I guess the GOP "chooses" to perish)
To: missyme
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posted on
12/08/2004 11:54:20 AM PST
by
CGVet58
(God has granted us Liberty, and we owe Him Courage in return)
To: workerbee
I am not sure what this procedure is but the Greek GOD's were pretty whacked like flaming homosexuals at the local Gay Parade....
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posted on
12/08/2004 11:56:54 AM PST
by
missyme
To: missyme
The Greeks never had same sex marriage. It took whack jobs in black robes in Mass-ass-achoosuse to come up with that one.
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posted on
12/08/2004 11:59:43 AM PST
by
Mark in the Old South
(Note to GOP "Deliver or perish" Re: Specter I guess the GOP "chooses" to perish)
To: missyme
A Mel Gibson movie without Danny Glover or Joe Pesci? Where do I get tickets?
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posted on
12/08/2004 12:06:11 PM PST
by
pikachu
(The REAL script)
To: missyme
There already is a movie about the Maccabees. I had never heard of it till I came across it as a used VHS tape in a second-hand bookstore a couple of months back. Misleadingly titled "The Old Testament" (for its American release), it's one of those Italian spaghetti epics from the early sixties, about Matthias and Judas Maccabeus and the revolt against Antiochus Epiphanes.
Not likely to win any film awards. Has anyone else ever heard of it (or seen it)?
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