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To: thor76

You bring up some interesting points. Mel has the bucks now to accomplish a lot of things. We know he has a great desire to do so. He also is in a position to have access to information that most of us can't get, so he would have to be very discreet in what the film portrays. He could, for example proceed as if certain rumors are true, but run the risk that those rumors could be false or misleading.

The "trail of breadcrumbs" you say is a curious concept. Since there are so many loose ends regarding Fatima, Mel could really develop that aspect by leaving numerous loose ends in the film, a sort of artistic open-endedness to imitate the topic being depicted.

As for the contents of the 3rd Secret, for example, he could touch on all the false editions that have been published, and all the reactions to them, including how their respective followings have died off after the contradictions have worn out the claim.

It would almost be too easy to make the Vatican look silly in what Ratzinger et. al. have said, given the facts. There is certianly enough material just in this entrigue to make a movie, so he would have to be judicious if he wanted to avoid letting that aspect take over the whole film. But if he did it right, and we know he's capable, it would put the onus on the pope to make the consecration at last, because the deficiencies of previous consecrations would be plain for all to see. Imagine how furious people like Fr. Fox would be to see his pet theories being exposed for their ridiculousness! He would probably try to sue Gibson for defamation or whatever. So Mel would have to contend with that kind of issue as well. The Fatima story is current events, whereas the Passion was practically speaking, in large an ancient issue.

I know a man who is Protestant and he rents a house from a Catholic relative. The relative has a shrine to Our Lady of Grace in the side yard of the rental house, and the Prot can't avoid seeing it when he comes and goes, which makes him miserable. The really wierd part of this is, that he has a son named "Elijia" and he has very strong convictions about the prophesy that Elias will return before the Second Coming. I recently read a transcript from a speech by Gerry Matatics that proposes that Our Lady is the fulfillment of the Elias prophesy, and that at Fatima she gave the most clear fulfillment of that prophesy. I am wondering what my Prot friend will have to say about that.


89 posted on 03/08/2005 4:30:19 PM PST by donbosco74 ("Men and devils make war on me in this great city." (Paris) --St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort)
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To: donbosco74

Ah! We are overlooking the use of what Malachi Martin called "Faction" - facts cloaked in fictional form.

I could easliy perceive film in which we see teh known facts of wwhat happened in 1917, what is factually known of Lucia's life, suibsequent locutions, and the revealed information.

The balance of the film could be a "what if......." scenario.

Or - in juxtaposition with the knwon facts, he could show what has happened as a result of Fatima, and the various things like Fr. Fox and other sundry things.

Speaking of bad sctors - I would like to nominate Fr, Robert Fox. Having seen him on EWTN I can in no way believe that thisman is actually head of a worldwide organization/apostolate. He comes across as a bumbling fool - almost senile! And it almost seems as if he doesn't have his lines memorized properly.

Oh .......excuse me......it almost seems like he .....*ahem*......at times does not have his facts straight.


90 posted on 03/08/2005 4:51:01 PM PST by thor76 (Vade retro, Draco! Crux sacra sit mihi lux!)
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