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After months of hype,
Mel's banking on a hit
By CORKY SIEMASZKO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Mel Gibson directs Jim Caviezel in 'The Passion.'
Mel Gibson is convinced that "The Passion of the Christ" is going to be
a hit. On the eve of the Ash Wednesday opening of his much-hyped movie
about the Crucifixion, Gibson predicted that all the controversy
surrounding the flick would pay off handsomely at the box office.
"There's never been anything like this before," Gibson tells Fox-TV's
Bill O'Reilly on "The O'Reilly Factor," airing tonight at 8. "It's the
curiosity factor more than anything. They're saying, what is this
about? You know, because a lot of people, they have no notion."
"The Passion" opens at dozens of movie theaters in New York tomorrow
and at more than 2,000 cinemas nationwide.
The controversy was stoked by Jewish leaders who accused Gibson of
putting the onus for Jesus' death on Jews rather than the Romans, who
actually nailed Christ to the Cross.
Last night, Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) attended an early
premiere of the film at the Jersey Gardens Cineplex in Edison, N.J. He
said he was "left numb" by the film's portrayal of Jews.
"I have no doubt that this is capable of causing violence against
Jews," Hikind said.
But Gibson insisted he was "evenhanded" and said he was faithful to the
Gospels, which in essence say that Jews set Jesus up and the Romans did
him in.
"They were brutal," Gibson said of the Roman soldiers who marched Jesus
up Golgotha. "They were more afraid of their own commanding officers
than they were of the enemy."
Gibson also denied Jewish accusations that he let Pontius Pilate off
the hook for Jesus' execution.
"He actually condemned a man to death who ... he thought was innocent,"
he said. "He's a monster."
But in the movie, Pilate repeatedly refuses to order Jesus' execution
and relents only under pressure from the Jewish high priest Caiaphas
and his Pharisee followers.
Also, Pilate's wife, Claudia, is openly sympathetic to the Virgin Mary
and gives her the towel with which she sops up Jesus' blood after He
endures a stomach-churning flogging that is the sadistic centerpiece of
the ultraviolent movie.
Gibson calls Simon of Cyrene, a Jew who is ordered by the Romans to
help Christ heft the Cross up the hill, a "true hero."
But Simon is also one of the few Jews in the movie who shows Jesus any
mercy. Most are part of a mob that hurls stones and spits on Jesus and
are so violent that Roman soldiers have to keep them from attacking
Christ.
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