Re:i know it’s not sci fi but…
hmmm, i like the question about whether or not jc would want this film to be his calling card, but i guess having absorbed more catholicism than i care to admit, i took for granted that the ‘passion’ of christ would dwell upon the atrocities this person suffered…at least that is what the catholics dwell upon when they refer to the passion of christ; hence the stations of the cross in each catholic church…remember, as an oldtime catholic, you would walk the stations so that you could relive the ‘via dolorosa’ or ‘via crucis’ with christ, feel his agony as it were…also the bulk of catholic art of the middle ages and the renaissance dwells upon depictions of christ on the cross, often very graphically, or upon scenes of his broken body being taken off the cross and mourned over (the pieta for example; we all know michelangelo’s version but actually ‘pieta’ or the pity/sorrow, is a generic artistic term for depictions of the dead christ being mourned by his mother) so i guess as a lapsed catholic, who grew up at least partially in italy, the movie is very catholic, and hence, very medieval 8) the protestant religions, at least the majority, on the other hand, tend to focus more on christ’s message of love, hope, redemption, without all the trappings of virgin birth, horrible death and so forth…other than that, yeah, the grinning romans with bad teeth happily flogging people is a bit much…for the most part, in the early days of the empire, the romans were ruthless in their conquest, but then once settled in, allowed the colonized peoples to more or less follow their own laws and religions, and often took aspects of each colonized culture into their own amalgamation of cultures known as the roman empire…both herod and pilate seemed to be fairly horrible examples of their kind, but how much of what they did was expediency or not caring versus actual evil intent as in the case of nero?
anyway, to answer your question, yeah, i don’t think jc would particularly care for this spin on his message 😀