Screenwriter Paul Schrader Troubled by Gibson's PASSION...
May 12th, 2004
Paul Schrader ("Affliction") wrote Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ", a controversial film in its own right, and recently he described "The Passion of the Christ" as "medieval." In London to attend the Orange Word Screenwriters season, the writer-director said that while he admired Mel Gibson's movie as "terrific film-making", its message left him troubled.
"Last Temptation was a very humanistic film in that it sees Christ's struggle as a human struggle," Schrader told the Guardian. "Gibson's film is very different. My guess is that Mel has a problem with the Enlightenment because his film really does go back to the visceral blood cult origins of Christianity, and the fervour it's created is more akin to a Gospel tent meeting than it is to a motion picture."
(Source: http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1176024,00.html)
"Last Temptation was a very humanistic film in that it sees Christ's struggle as a human struggle," Schrader told the Guardian. "Gibson's film is very different. My guess is that Mel has a problem with the Enlightenment because his film really does go back to the visceral blood cult origins of Christianity, and the fervour it's created is more akin to a Gospel tent meeting than it is to a motion picture."
(Source: http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1176024,00.html)
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