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Originally posted by Fugee
What kind of Protestant wingnuts do you know? I've never once heard that said and I'd stack up my Protty wingnut creds against yours anytime.
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You'd probably win. Fundamentalism in all its forms is essentially formalized nostalgia for a perfect age that was better than life today. I know more about Catholic wingnutism. They want to be prelapsarian, but think the downfall was either the Reformation or Vatican II. They want to recreate the high Renaissance church, and wind up missing the mark and getting the American church just pre-Vatican II. For Protestants, prelapsarian means before the medieval church. My impression of P wingnuts are that they believe they can recreate the First or Third Century church, and miss the mark and end up in the late 19th century. Maybe some of them are totally honest about it and say "we want to go back before the Scopes monkey trial, and that's about it" or something.
But I stand by my statement that Protestants tend to think that When Jesus Roamed the Earth was some kind of utopia, even though he probably spent much of his life in fear and filth, like everyone else. Catholics tend to romanticize everything about his life
other than the 12 hours preceding his death.
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It would be nice if everything in the movie was historically accurate but maybe Mel decided people would be too distracted from the message ("Ethel, where's the rest of the cross he's carrying?") if certain things didn't fit in with the pictures we've always seen -- e.g., nails through the palms and not the wrists. Or maybe he just wanted to fit with his own mental picture.
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I think there is immensely more value in producing a depiction of the times as they actually occurred. We have plenty of movies depicting the Passion as people expect to see it. Why bother just bringing the crucifix on the wall to life? Gibson claims he consulted with scholars to ensure accuracy. People will come away from this movie thinking they've seen something that strove for total accuracy, like Cameron's Titanic. We've bought into another twenty years of people thinking the picture of Jesus on Grandma's wall is somehow accurate. We didn't need a retelling of "The Greatest Story Ever Told."
BTW, we wish you a Meaningful Shrove Tuesday.
