The Passion of The Zealot
I hope for your sake I didn't run into you after you saw The Passion. I was at a party on Saturday night, and after 3 or 9 drinks, I got into a conversation with someone who pointed out that I really can't judge the film because I hadn't seen it. I then pointed out that because I had heard about it through people who I trust, who have told me how incredibly violent & anti-Semitic it is, I won't go see it. And I won't give him a dime. Not one penny. And let me just punctuate this with some quotes from Hutton Gibson, Mel's father and the person who influenced him to make this film.
Taken word for word from a Steve Feuerstein Radio Interview with Hutton Gibson:
Steve Feuerstein
What was this event called the Holocaust?
Hutton Gibson
...They claimed that there were 6.2 million in Poland before the war and after the war there were 200,000 therefore he (Hitler) must have killed six million of them. They simply got up and left! They were all over the Bronx and Brooklyn and Sydney and Los Angeles.
If they had set out to kill six million Jews they would have done it. But all we hear about is Holocaust survivors. 'Oh, we know it happened, cause over there is a survivor. Oh, my mother and father were survivors,' they say.
This is absolutely ridiculous. And (the Holocaust) it's all - maybe not all fiction - but most of it is. For instance the gas chambers and crematoria at Auschwitz would not do the job. Do you know what it takes to get rid of a dead body? To cremate it? It takes a liter of petrol and 20 minutes - now six million of them? They (the Germans) did not have the gas to do it. That's why they lost the war.
Regarding the gas chamber, the gas was going the wrong way. You see it was going down instead of up….
Steve Feuerstein
Why Do the Jews construct Holocaust Museums?
Hutton Gibson
There are too many survivors. It's just a gimmick to collect money. They have to go where there is money. There is no way they would come to West Virginia. They have to have some place to go that has money. They didn't work in the mines you can bet your boots…no they don't work anywhere where they can get out of it. They're great pencil pushers they are the superior people and therefore they are entitled to the top jobs supervisory stuff and so on because they hire each other They have so much influence in the banks for instance They all look out for one another you got to give them that. They are at the same time willing to sacrifice a few of theirs if it helps…
So there you have it. More of why I won't do it. Check out this article to get an idea of how the cycle is beginning yet again. And to the girls who I may have offended on Saturday by my "sassiness" (thanks, M) I apologize. I tend to get upset when confronted with anti-Semitism, and I'm not saying you were offensive or anti-Semitic in any way at all. I've just had to deal with it my entire life and will always have to deal with it. Add that to a whole shitload of vodka and I can be a jerk.
Comments
What you could do is go see the movie as a guest of your local church. For example where I live the Chinese Catholic Alliance bought out an entire theatre for a performance and invited the neighborhood to come see the movie on them. (Is there any doubt about the box office numbers when they do shit like that?) The benefit of this is by you taking up a seat that means that one less person will be able to see this Passion Play. Don't forget the "jew jew bees" to throw at the screen and other patrons when they start calling for the Jews to be punished for taking down their savior.
Posted by: JS | March 9, 2004 02:35 PM
do they even sell jew jew bees any more? i think i still have one stuck in my teeth from the last time i was at the loews 86th street.
Posted by: lm | March 9, 2004 03:36 PM