Posted on 02/28/2005 1:28:36 PM PST by nickcarraway
Kind of Nostradomus-esque. It could mean anything.
Mel is on Michael Medved show right now talking about the Oscars.
Hm, a fantasy movie?
That interpretation of the Third Secret is highly questionable...Many others believe that the Third Secret had to do with the breakdown of the Church prior to the Second Coming of Christ...but the powers that be in the Vatican have successfully scuttled it...
YES!!!!!
Gipson never tried to hide his Romanist outlook, it was the evangelicals who were gushing over him, unconcerned with any doctrinal problems.
Protestants will always have doctrinal problems with Catholics. I liked the movie anyway.
He's really overthinking this. Just make quality movies about Jesus and the disciples, about Paul, etc. Retire a bazillionaire.
Drat. I would've enjoyed seeing the other project he was talking about (the Maccabean Revolt). Still, I give this movie better than even odds of being more entertaining than anything else that will be in theaters alongside it.
If Mr. Gibson does the Fatima movie, it won't be for the purpose of bringing protestants and Catholics together. I don't think that was his aim, either, in The Passion of the Christ.
I think Mr. Gibson wants to make films about things he feels strongly about, and he's wealthy enough to do whatever he wants.
As a Catholic, I look forward to any films he makes about his beliefs.
Oh, that will be a BEAUTIFUL movie! So much better than if he had told the story of the Maccabees as the rumor had it. I have to read this book.
You think so?
Not if they constantly compromise on them?
Did you like how Mary was portrayed in the movie?
Bump
Exactly, if the protestants don't want to see it, let them stay away. No one is going to force them to see it. If Mel Gibson wanted to make more money he could make another Lethal Weapon. No, he wants to make another "Caravaggio". I can feel it in my bones... this subject will look absolutely, stunningly beautiful on film... I can't wait.
The Sun Moved In The Sky! Of course you know that, but the others may not. Ten Thousand People witnessed it. But that's the thing about miracles... no matter how many witness one half will convince themselves they didn't see it and the rest of the world will disbelieve anyway.
I saw the movie only once, but I can't remember anything glaringly wrong with how Mary was portrayed. Obviously, Mel took a lot of artistic license with her character. What do you think?
I'm just here for the gasoline.
I'll believe he's working on a particular project when I hear it's actually started shooting.
With all due respect, that's because he's inclined to do Catholic-friendly movies. The passion and resurrection of Christ appeal to all Christians, across the board, and is the essence of the gospel message. If he starts becoming sectarian, to make movies with topics that appeal only to Catholics, he certainly has the resources to do so (as you say), but he will lose a large segment of his audience. But then, maybe producing movies that have a particular Catholic slant to them is what he wants to do. More power to him -- it's his money afterall -- but all of the Protestants I know who lauded him for "The Passion" won't bother seeing his future movies if that's the tact he takes.
I agree, and I have no problem with that.
I'm not so sure what the reaction of Evangelicals to this will be. Suspicion, certainly. But Evangelicals might conceivably take an interest in it nonetheless, as outsiders, just as they take an interest in Jewish affairs.
I also wonder what Catholics will make of it. Will it appeal only to schismatic or "traditional" Catholics, by suggesting that parts of the third secret were suppressed, or will it also appeal to faithful Catholics who accept the Novus Ordo? And what about all the liberal Catholics and just plain Catholics who probably went to see The Passion?
It's clearly a very different kettle of fish from The Passion. But much depends on how Mel handles it.
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