Posted on 08/09/2002 8:06:23 AM PDT by NYer
Mel Gibson, star of action movies such as Braveheart and Mad Max, is considering casting himself as Jesus in a new film about the last days of Christ set in Matera, southern Italy.
The Italian Catholic daily newspaper Avvenire, reports that the Catholic actor has been meeting with church officials and theologians to gain an insight into Christ's Passion and Crucifixion, including the Last Supper and the vigil in the Garden of Gethsemane.
Matera is a Unesco World Heritage site, famed for the Sassi, palaeolithic cave dwellings that were inhabited until recently.
Filming is due to start next month. Movie sources say Gibson chose the rocky, remote town because it was so convincing in Pasolini's 1964 classic Gospel According to St Matthew - which Gibson has long admired.
Pasolini chose the area for its bleak landscape and used unknown actors in his film - in contrast with the stars cast in other biblical epics of the time, such as the Ten Commandments and Ben Hur. Christ was played by Enrique Irazoqui, a Spanish student, who Pasolini thought resembled the gaunt Jesus of El Greco's paintings.
Most all of those Jews look just like, er, regular, um, American type people. If Jesus walked down the street in New York City today dressed in a business suit and brief case with an American haircut, maybe he would look like any other Wall Street banker?
...MEL GIBSON is Lt. Col. HAL G. MOORE in the RANDALL WALLACE Film .."WE WERE SOLDIERS".. who's DVD/Video comes out August 20th.
...I was Lt. Col. HAL G. MOORE's Radioman/Driver/Orderly Assistant in country right up to the Battle of IA DRANG-1965. I was in that Valley of Death's Landing Zone Falcon carrying our Hero Dead and Wounded Soldiers fresh out of Landing Zone X-Ray to copters going back to Pleiku Airstrip ..while witnessing all.
...After his Victory Lt. Col. HAL G. MOORE personally wrote letters to the Hero Families of our Deand and Wounded of both the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 7th Cavalry ..with some going directly first to Mrs. JULIE MOORE for her loving personal delivery. He wrote them up ..as the IA DRANG-1965 S-1 Personel Clerk ..I typed them up.
...For more on my personal experiences in the 1st 7 months of the Vietnam War...
...check out my.. ALOHA RONNIE ..Thread titled:
'WE WERE SOLDIERS...& YOUNG'..4 FREEDOM.
GARRY OWEN, Sir
The reason they look alike is they are genetic cousins. For the history of the "regular people" and the Jews please click on my FR Profile below and read the 3-MINUTE HISTORY.
Mel Gibson did an outstanding performance in "We Were Soldiers".
The way Jesus came up out of the water at his baptism and his eyes met Satan's. Satan who had been looking for him, hunting him down and killing babies from the time of Moses, even before that, from the time that God said to him "Her seed will crush your skull". Not a word was exchanged between them, Jesus just followed him into the wilderness that would make one great scene and I think that Mel could convey it very well.
That's enough to get you into the "club", isn't it?
Hopefully, the "name" is the only reason to believe you might not be a woman. ;-)
But we couldn't very well be casting 'Carrot-Top' in the role of Christ, can we?
Allow me to salute you, sir. You are one of my personal heroes. Though I attended an "all girl" school at that time, we were all keenly embroiled in the war with you. Our brothers, cousins and neighbors were called "by draft" to serve. We who remained behind raised our voices in outrage at the draft of those not legally able to vote. We stood by your side, in solidarity, prayer and support, proudly wearing your names on bracelets. We lobbied our congressmen to lable the police action for what it truly was ... a war. We marched down Broadway in NYC to rally for an end to the war.
Proud to know you, soldier. Happy you made it home. Thank you for serving us and your country well. You are a true hero.
"Come with me if you want eternal salvation"....Do you feel saved?, well do you punk?
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