DeMille’s “The King of Kings”, demonstrating the power of a big budget and a well-known director.
SON OF GOD AND THE PASSION OF CHRIST MOVIE SCENES FULL
In 1912, Sidney Olcott’s “From the Manger to the Cross” became the first feature length film to offer a full account of the life of Christ.įifteen years later, crowds flocked to see Cecil B. Hollywood continued to cash in on Christian audiences all through the 20th century.
Inventors of cinematic technologies, such as Thomas Edison and the Lumière brothers, were among the first to bring Jesus’s life to the big screen at the end of the 19th century. From amulets to icons, paintings to sculptures, Christianity incorporates a rich visual history, so perhaps it is not surprising that cinema has become a vital medium to display the life of Jesus. Images of Jesus, or the Virgin Mary, have long been part of the Christian tradition. I have also looked at the ways in which audiences make their own spiritual meanings through the images of film. From still images to moving imagesįor the last two decades, I have researched the portrayal of religious figures on screen. Those of you who are looking forward to The Passion 2: Passion Harder, however, are in luck.These films have prompted devotion and missionary outreach, just as they have challenged viewers’ assumptions of who the figure of Jesus really was. That said, I'm not exactly clamoring for a sequel. As a non-believer myself, I failed to take away a religious message from The Passion. I did, however, appreciate how uncompromisingly brutal it was, to the point where it almost bordered on becoming a horror movie, complete with a creepy CGI-enhanced Satan showing up at random moments. I think Gibson is a talented filmmaker – his Apocalypto is highly underrated – but he's also clearly a bit of a terrible person with an abusive past, and that understandably doesn't sit well with a lot of people (myself included). I suppose one's enjoyment of The Passion and its proposed sequel comes down to how much one can separate the art from the artist.
Since the original Passion's release, controversial events in Gibson's life have sidetracked his career (although he did manage to appear in Daddy's Home 2 last year, somehow). Whether or not Gibson can recapture the success he had with the first film, which remains the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time in North America with $370.8 million in box office revenue, remains to be seen. This film will likely pick up from there. At the end of The Passion of the Christ, we saw Caviezel's Jesus rise from his tomb and walk out into the daylight just before the credits rolled. There are no details about what the film's story will be, but ( spoiler alert!) it will likely deal with the events of Christ's resurrection, what with that title and all. The Passion of the Christ sequel will be called The Resurrection, and Randall Wallace, who penned the script for Gibson's Braveheart, will write the film. "We're trying to craft this in a way that's cinematically compelling and enlightening so that it shines new light, if possible, without creating some weird thing," Gibson said in 2016.
It's that good." The biggest film in history? Bigger than even Chappie? We'll see! "I'll tell you this much," the actor said, "the film he's going to do is going to be the biggest film in history. Caviezel told USA Today he'd be back for the biblical sequel and has nothing but lofty expectations for the film. Gibson confirmed the sequel in 2016, and now, Jesus himself, Jim Caviezel, has revealed he'll be returning as well. In 2004, Mel Gibson's bloody, controversial The Passion of the Christ was a box office smash, and ever since then, Gibson has been teasing the idea of a sequel. Mel Gibson has been planning a sequel to his controversial biblical epic The Passion of the Christ for a while now, and star Jim Caviezel has finally confirmed he'll be growing out his beard to reprise his role as the Son of God.
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