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'PASSION' YOUTH APPEAL
Variety ^
| 3-10-04
| GABRIEL SNYDER
Posted on 03/11/2004 7:39:28 AM PST by truthandlife
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'Passion' ping
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posted on
03/11/2004 7:40:30 AM PST
by
truthandlife
("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
To: truthandlife
There have been some surprising underperforming cities, however: Salt Lake City, home of the Mormon Church, and Boston, which has a large Catholic community, are not "The Passion's" strongest towns. Boston is about as "Catholic" as John Kerry or Ted Kennedy.
Catholicism and a pro-abortion political stance are mutually exclusive.
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posted on
03/11/2004 7:44:04 AM PST
by
presidio9
("By extending the reach of trade, we foster prosperity and the habits of liberty." -Adam Smith)
To: truthandlife
"Most of the people I'm seeing look like they've been in a theater before," he said. I wonder what he means by that?
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posted on
03/11/2004 7:48:19 AM PST
by
Dataman
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posted on
03/11/2004 7:51:53 AM PST
by
ALOHA RONNIE
(Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.LZXRAY.com)
To: truthandlife
They say this movie is anti sematic but I don't here the Germans complaining about Schinlers List...
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posted on
03/11/2004 7:53:46 AM PST
by
ptavares
To: presidio9
Somehow, the Christian liberals have abandoned their religion in favor of the New York Times trashing of this wonderful movie. There are a lot of simple minded "stupid" Christians who bought into the media propaganda that this movie is violent. To all these idiots I say: "if you deny me on earth, I will deny you in heaven"
To: presidio9
Boston is about as "Catholic" as John Kerry or Ted Kennedy. Maybe the author was facing a deadline so he just made a bunch of stuff up that he thought sounded sophisticated. For example, even if he had sound scientific data -- which he obviously does not -- he wouldn't be able to draw the conclusion below:
Young males who flock to slasher pics seem to be taking an interest in "The Passion," which has been widely characterized as gory by reviewers.
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posted on
03/11/2004 7:55:53 AM PST
by
Dataman
To: ptavares
They say this movie is anti sematic but I don't here the Germans complaining about Schinlers List... What?
Speak up. I can't here you.
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posted on
03/11/2004 7:57:11 AM PST
by
Dataman
To: Dataman
"The Passion," which has been widely characterized as gory by reviewers. This is another fallacy propagated by the left to persuade people to avoid this movie. There are plenty of critically-acclaimed popular films with much more blood and violence.
The left has tended to fixate on the "extended and overly-graphic" scourging (which "is not in the Gospel"). In reality, the camera is mostly on the faces of the Romans, Satan, the Blessed Mother, and Mary Magdalene. I wonder if more than a dozen blows are actually on camera.
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posted on
03/11/2004 8:22:25 AM PST
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presidio9
("By extending the reach of trade, we foster prosperity and the habits of liberty." -Adam Smith)
To: Dataman
"Most of the people I'm seeing look like they've been in a theater before," he said. I take it that theaters have changed in the past decade from flat floors to statdium seating so that the view is less likely to be obstructed. And the theaters are typically multiscreen. Thus if in fact you haven't been to a movie since Gone With the Wind, it's likely that that would be apparent to someone watching you find your way to a particular picture showing in a modern theater.
To: presidio9
The left has tended to fixate on the "extended and overly-graphic" scourging (which "is not in the Gospel"). That's another half-truth of the left. The scourging is certainly accurate as we know both from Roman history and Isaiah.
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posted on
03/11/2004 8:45:47 AM PST
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Dataman
To: presidio9
The left has tended to fixate on the "extended and overly-graphic" scourging (which "is not in the Gospel"). In reality, the camera is mostly on the faces of the Romans, Satan, the Blessed Mother, and Mary Magdalene. I wonder if more than a dozen blows are actually on camera.I agree. "Braveheart" is far more violent than "Passion". The difference is that the violence in the "Passion" is totally directed one single innocent man.
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posted on
03/11/2004 8:50:37 AM PST
by
elbucko
To: elbucko
The difference is that the violence in the "Passion" is totally directed
to one single innocent man.
Wake up, Buck.
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posted on
03/11/2004 8:54:10 AM PST
by
elbucko
To: conservatism_IS_compassion
Thus if in fact you haven't been to a movie since Gone With the Wind, it's likely that that would be apparent to someone watching you find your way to a particular picture showing in a modern theater. No, that would be acting like they'd been in a theater before. The claim was that they looked like they'd been in a theater before.
What we have here, IMO, is more of the author's bias that the religious crowd that made this movie a hit are a bunch of melons just out of the patch.
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posted on
03/11/2004 9:02:19 AM PST
by
Dataman
To: truthandlife
There have been some surprising underperforming cities, however: Salt Lake City, home of the Mormon Church, and Boston, which has a large Catholic community, are not "The Passion's" strongest towns. Come back to The Written Word... The Written Word Made Flesh... Salt Lake City and Boston.
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posted on
03/11/2004 9:07:43 AM PST
by
unspun
(The uncontextualized life is not worth living. | I'm not "Unspun w/ AnnaZ" but I appreciate.)
To: presidio9
"In reality, the camera is mostly on the faces of the Romans, Satan, the Blessed Mother, and Mary Magdalene. I wonder if more than a dozen blows are actually on camera."
Exactly. And Christ's dignity as he responds to the punishment. The blows are not the focus at all.
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To: truthandlife
Like I said on another thread, I teach at the U. of Dayton and would estimate that out of my 110 students, probably 40% have already seen it and several others indicated they were going to see it. We don't have a commuter campus, and the good theaters aren't in walking distance, so I have a feeling many are just waiting for rides.
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posted on
03/11/2004 11:56:05 AM PST
by
LS
(CNN is the Amtrack of news.)
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