I when this movie came out, I remember Hollywood declared this movie as being highly "anti semantic" and were protesting against it strongly.
This never made much sense to me because.
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This movie was not atypical to any other movie about the crucifixion of Christ. There had been many movies about the crucifixion of Christ showing Pharisees in a bad light prior to this. There were about 25 minutes of Jewish people treating Jesus cruelly. The rest of the movie was of the Romans brutalizing Christ.
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I really doubt these white skinned secular Hollywood billionaires really feel any connection to these ancient Hebrews.
So what was the real reason for this outrage?
Was it that subtitle/line "His blood be upon us and on our children" that Mr. Gibson agreed to remove? (Or so I think. The second link implies it was still included).
https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/766-the-controversy-rages-mel-gibsons-the-passion
As I recall, the ADL was foaming at the mouth about this film coming out, but they had no power over Gibson as he was working independently. It had a cost of about $30M and took in over $600M - all the wails and screeches only upped it's appeal.
https://www.slashfilm.com/675075/the-passion-of-the-christ-controversy-explained/
I'm guessing some of the outrage was that certain people didn't want Mr. Gibson's viewpoints to gain any following.