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** [[God|Everyone's]] [[Shock and Awe|a critic.]]
** [[God|Everyone's]] [[Shock and Awe|a critic.]]
** Admittedly, it probably has more to do with [[Tempting Fate|hanging around a hilltop in stormy weather carrying lots of metal objects]] than actual divine retribution.
** Admittedly, it probably has more to do with [[Tempting Fate|hanging around a hilltop in stormy weather carrying lots of metal objects]] than actual divine retribution.
* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: Holy SHIT. Flogging, and public humilation and then Crucifixion.
* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: Holy SHIT. Flogging, and public humilation and then Crucifixion.
* [[Creepy Child]]: We have Satan's demon baby, and we have the demon kids that drive Judas over the edge. Take your pick.
* [[Creepy Child]]: We have Satan's demon baby, and we have the demon kids that drive Judas over the edge. Take your pick.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Compared to a normal passion play which started out as traveling French medieval theater (unless this is a case of see right below)
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Compared to a normal passion play which started out as traveling French medieval theater (unless this is a case of see right below)
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Several variations from historical record.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Several variations from historical record.
** The priests would not have touched a bloody and dirty man with their bare hands.
** The priests would not have touched a bloody and dirty man with their bare hands.
** Victims of crucifixion were nailed through the wrists, not the palms, because the flesh of the hand would simply tear apart under the weight. Mel Gibson apparently found the imagery of the nail-pierced palms too iconic to resist, so he included that and then added rope ties for support, doubling the inaccuracy.
** Victims of crucifixion were nailed through the wrists, not the palms, because the flesh of the hand would simply tear apart under the weight. Mel Gibson apparently found the imagery of the nail-pierced palms too iconic to resist, so he included that and then added rope ties for support, doubling the inaccuracy.
** Actually, ''National Geographic'' tested this and found that people ''can'' be crucified by nailing their palms to the cross and their hands ''won't'' be torn off, albeit so long as the feet were nailed as well for support (of course, the feet of Jesus were). Also, the exact method of crucifixtion is unknown and varied, and tying victims to the cross (or stake) was probably more common than nailing, so tying and nailing in combo is actually a possibility.
** Actually, ''National Geographic'' tested this and found that people ''can'' be crucified by nailing their palms to the cross and their hands ''won't'' be torn off, albeit so long as the feet were nailed as well for support (of course, the feet of Jesus were). Also, the exact method of crucifixtion is unknown and varied, and tying victims to the cross (or stake) was probably more common than nailing, so tying and nailing in combo is actually a possibility.
*** And if you want to get really dark, there is some evidence that ''multiple'' nails were used, perhaps as many as ''14'', and you could speculate that sometimes the hands ''and'' the wrists, ''and'' possibly the forearms as well, were ''all'' nailed to the cross, and not just that it was one or the other.
*** And if you want to get really dark, there is some evidence that ''multiple'' nails were used, perhaps as many as ''14'', and you could speculate that sometimes the hands ''and'' the wrists, ''and'' possibly the forearms as well, were ''all'' nailed to the cross, and not just that it was one or the other.
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** This was how he was portrayed in [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]'s "[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]" musical. Guess Gibson liked that one.
** This was how he was portrayed in [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]'s "[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]" musical. Guess Gibson liked that one.
** While various people throughout history have accused the Herod family of all kinds of depravity, this particular ruler had more of a reputation with his detractors as [[The Casanova|a notorious womanizer]]; make of that what you will.
** While various people throughout history have accused the Herod family of all kinds of depravity, this particular ruler had more of a reputation with his detractors as [[The Casanova|a notorious womanizer]]; make of that what you will.
* [[Downer Ending]]: Subverted. [[Back From the Dead|He gets better]].
* [[Downer Ending]]: Subverted. [[Back from the Dead|He gets better]].
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Judas.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Judas.
* [[Evil Albino]]: Satan.
* [[Evil Albino]]: Satan.
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* [[The Messiah]]: [[Captain Obvious|Of course.]]
* [[The Messiah]]: [[Captain Obvious|Of course.]]
* [[Nightmare Sequence]]
* [[Nightmare Sequence]]
* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: The beatdowns of Jesus last for more than half the movie, and at times are unbearable to watch.
* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: The beatdowns of Jesus last for more than half the movie, and at times are unbearable to watch.
* [[One-Woman Wail]]: They ''almost'' had Lisa Gerrard scoring the film.
* [[One-Woman Wail]]: They ''almost'' had Lisa Gerrard scoring the film.
* [[Overdrawn At the Blood Bank]]: Jesus bleeds up more than the entire adult blood supply when he's flogged, then bleeds out three or four people's worth of blood when he's crucified.<ref>To all Christians, but in particular to Catholics, that is the whole point, as it is the blood of Christ that is offered to God in atonement for the sins of the whole world -- the same blood that Catholics, and to a lesser extent certain Protestant denominations such as the Anglicans and Lutherans, profess a belief in receiving at Communion under the form of wine that has been transubstantiated into Christ's blood. In fact in medieval devotional paintings, a not uncomon theme is to show angels collecting the blood of Christ in golden chalices as it is dripping from his body on the cross.</ref>
* [[Overdrawn At the Blood Bank]]: Jesus bleeds up more than the entire adult blood supply when he's flogged, then bleeds out three or four people's worth of blood when he's crucified.<ref>To all Christians, but in particular to Catholics, that is the whole point, as it is the blood of Christ that is offered to God in atonement for the sins of the whole world -- the same blood that Catholics, and to a lesser extent certain Protestant denominations such as the Anglicans and Lutherans, profess a belief in receiving at Communion under the form of wine that has been transubstantiated into Christ's blood. In fact in medieval devotional paintings, a not uncomon theme is to show angels collecting the blood of Christ in golden chalices as it is dripping from his body on the cross.</ref>
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