Arkansans Buy Up Tickets to 'The Passion of the Christ'
This is apropos of nothing, but I can't help wondering what these mass ticket-buying Christians will feel like if "The Passion of Christ" turns out to suck. Will they take to the airwaves and heap more abuse on Mel? Will they demand a refund of all those huge blocks of tickets? And if theatres refuse to issue refunds, will they stand outside and scalp? "Pssst, hey mister. Passion, five dolla, Passion, five dolla."
I actually plan to go see it, though I've been told that I'm going to have to go someplece that's not "Jewish, liberal or upscale." Thank God I live in NC, where none of those barriers stand between me and the (possibly) ravingly (though undoubetledly artistically beautiful) anti-semitic vision of Mr. Gibson. Now if we can just get Mel Brooks to do his vision of the Angel Gabriel delivering the Koran to Muhammed we could preserve religious parity in Hollywood cinema and start WWIII at the same time.
Posted by: Anthony | February 17, 2004 at 10:50 AM
Try to score your tickets from a Christian at the door. Churches bought up entire showings, but you know how it goes. If everybody from the congregation goes, who'll stay behind to warm up the mini corndogs for the post-"Passion" potluck back at the Fellowship Hall? Bound to be some extra seats you could get into.
Posted by: pam | February 17, 2004 at 01:56 PM
Well, if you want to see it for free, volunteer to be saved. Any good Christian worth his/her salt (they do let the women see moves, right?) *should* give up their ticket on the spot.
And, if the reviews are bad, it is just a Jewish/liberal conspiracy against the movie.
Odd how they completely ignored 'The Gospel of John' which is currently in theaters.
Posted by: Bob O'Shaughnessy | February 17, 2004 at 03:56 PM
Do all the sincere, faithful Christians lining up to see this movie understand that we are talking about a 2 hour (or so) film that is entirely in Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic (I assume Mel is providing subtitles) with graphic violence and apparently not a lot of laughs per minute. Anyone expecting "King of Kings" or "The Greatest Story Ever Told" or even "Life of Brian" is in for a shock. One can only (uncharitably) assume that everyone in God's Country is lining up fervently only because a) it's all the Jews's fault; and b) it really is the Jews's fault!
PS--do a lot of these people realize that Mel is a Catholic! A papist! A Pope-kissing idolator and deluded follwer of the anti-Christ, the Whore of Babylon and the Romish Error. Did they think he was a Baptist?
PSS--Mel's father is apparently a dyed-in-the-wool nutjob (he has gone on record as denying the Holocaust) member of some hyper-conservative Catholic organization that doesn't even recognize the current Pope (the kind that makes the Opus Dei look like liberation theologists). I wonder if Mel made this movie cause daddy said "son why can't you make a movie I would enjoy"? Scary thought....
Posted by: Anthony | February 18, 2004 at 10:48 AM
I doubt if they're all as rabidly anti-Semetic as you say. I think they've simply been jonesing for a movie about Jesus they could all get behind - torture, subtitles and all. We'll see what happens after the silly thing finally opens.
Posted by: pam | February 18, 2004 at 11:36 AM