[Salamander]

You are quite right.

The bible says that Christ was no longer able to be recognized as human by the time it was over.

As horrible as it looked in the movie, Mel admitted in an interview to "pulling it back a bit" for the sake of his audience.

[reagan_fanatic]

As horrible as it looked in the movie, Mel admitted in an interview to "pulling it back a bit" for the sake of his audience.

It was grotesque enough without adding any further realism to it. I like to see events depicted as historically accurate as possible, but I'm thankful Mel didn't go all the way on this one.