[LibKill]

Mel Gibson is set to direct a movie about Christ's last 12 hours played out entirely in two ancient tongues - Latin and Aramaic - with no subtitles.

I don't see how this will work. It may be the greatest film ever made, but most of the world won't know what is being said.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I don't see how this will work. It may be the greatest film ever made, but most of the world won't know what is being said.

Anybody who has ever sat through readings of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John on Sundays, voluntarily or not, will know what is being said.

[Gone_Postal]

don't see how this will work. It may be the greatest film ever made, but most of the world won't know what is being said.

Read the BOOK

[Paulus Invictus]

As an old movie guy, my opinion is that Gibson's film will not work! We have an excellent film about Jesus in which the actor speaks in Aramaic, but the voice over translation, right out of the KJV New Testament, is in English. The spoken Aramaic is subdued and it is easy to understand the voice-over message. Having the actor speak in the language of Jesus was not a distraction, but without the English interpretation the film would be sure to fail.

Two other good questions: did Jesus speak Latin when he was interviewed by Pilate? Did he speak Koine Greek as he did grow up in a Greek-speaking area? (Sephoris is only a few miles from Nazereth and it is alleged that most everyone spoke Greek in that city. Signs found on Jewish tombs of the period and also on the Temple were written in Greek. Hmmm.