👉🏻 link: https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/421006615
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“Mel Gibson warned actor Jim Caviezel that playing the character of Christ was going to be very difficult and that if he accepted, he most likely would be marginalized by Hollywood.
Caviezel asked for a day to think about it and his response to Mel who was funding and directing the movie was: "I think we have to make it, even if it is difficult." And something else, my initials are J.C., and I am 33 years old. "I didn't realize that until now." Mel responded with “You're really scaring me you know.”
During filming, Jim Caviezel who plays the part of Jesus lost 45 pounds, he was struck by lightning, he was accidentally struck twice during the scourging scene leaving a deep 14-inch scar, he dislocated his shoulder when the cross was dropped into the hole with him on the cross. He then suffered pneumonia and hypothermia from being nearly naked with only a loin cloth on the cross for endless hours. The crucifixion scene alone took 5 weeks of the 2 months of shooting.
His body was so stressed and exhausted from playing the role that he had to undergo two open heart surgeries after the filming production.
Jim explained, “I didn’t want people to see me. I just want them to see Jesus. Conversions will happen through that.”
Almost like a clairvoyant prediction many amazing things happened.
Pedro Sarubbi, who played Barabbas, felt that it was not Caviezel who was looking at him, but Jesus Christ himself, as he played that role he said of Caviezel, “His eyes had no hatred or resentment towards me, only mercy and love."
Luca Lionello, the artist who played Judas, was an avowed atheist before shooting began. He eventually converted, and baptized his children.
One of the main technicians working on the film was a Muslim converted to Christianity.
Some producers said they saw actors dressed in white they didn’t recognize during one of the filming sessions, and when they reviewed the recordings they realized they couldn’t see them in that footage.
The Passion of the Christ is the highest grossing US religious as well as the highest R-rated film of all time, with $370.8 million! Worldwide, it grossed $611 million.
More importantly, it has reached 100’s of millions of people around the world.
Mel Gibson paid $30 million out of his own pocket for the production of the film because no studio would take on the project.
Today Jim Caviezel simply and boldly proclaims his faith in Christ, and the miracle it was for him to represent Christ as an actor and a greater believer of Christ because of this experience.
Praise the Lord!
When I was a missionary, this movie was also a huge deal in two different Muslim countries:
Indonesia. We'd walk the slums and people would say, "what's up passion of the Christ," some snarled, some jested, but even in the slums they saw the movie. Mins you, Indo is 96% Muslim, so it was a big deal for them to have seen the movie.
Turkey. Also heavily Muslim. But Passion was the most bootlegged movie of the time (this was 2008). We were told by former Muslims it was because the people could just not understand how someone could endure so much torture, and still offer forgiveness and love. It just blew their minds as it was not part of their culture at all.
When the scene where the Christ was prone on the pavement, he looked at his mother and said "See, woman, I have made all things new" that resonated in my soul and resulted in my conversion..
Excellent.
Jim is also playing Jesus in the sequel Passion of the Christ 2: Resurrection. Mel said earlier that they plan to have it out in 2025 but some sources now are saying 2024.
https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/1718010/passion-of-the-christ-2-resurrection-mel-gibson-jesus-christ-jim-caviezel
Can't wait to see the 'Resurrection'! I know it will be magnificent! 😹
“The Chosen” is worth the watch for anyone interested. It’s a series based on the life of Jesus and his disciples.
I’m not going to lie, the quality of the production, casting and acting is on par with any HBO or Netflix produced series. Highly recommended
Sure, if you’re okay with a watered down and blasphemous version of Jesus. Take the depiction of His Sermon on the Mount, for example, where they depict Him collaborating with Matthew to choose His words to be more acceptable to the masses, and Him going through being clothed by women where they chose blue so He’s “less edgy”. It really is a case in point on how the Churches in the world are shrinking the Word of God in an attempt to be accepted by the world, exactly what Luke in the book of Acts says he would never do and warns against doing.
It’s the only reason I have opened my bible for the first time in 20 years. It may be watered down, but it is a gateway to the full word of God.
That’s really sad that you needed a TV show to open up the Bible. Hopefully you don’t let the perversions of the show sway your perception of Christ.
It’s bringing people to Christ and helping others deepen their relationship with Him.
How does anyone know whether or not He did some of those things? Only He does.
That’s exactly the excuse people use to shrink the Gospel, because they think it’s up to THEM to bring people to Christ, and not up to the Father to draw them. We are charged with spreading the true message, not trying to accustom it to the wishes of other people because we think we’re in control of their hearts.
Jesus absolutely did not collaborate with anyone to help Him with his sermon, and to think Jesus would need one of His own disciple’s help for a sermon where he was giving a new covenant would be absolutely laughable if it weren’t so sad.
No one knows with whom He collaborated. It’s possible you are correct. It’s possible you are not.
It’s a TV show that try’s to fill in the gaps. I think it’s a great (albeit imperfect) attempt.
You seriously think it makes any sense for Jesus to ask His own DISCIPLE for help because He doesn’t know what to say? Seriously??
To help His disciple grow. He doesn’t need any of us. He involves us for our benefit.
I’m not saying He asked Matthew for help - but I’m not saying He didn’t. I try to keep an open mind. The things botched by translation and excluded form the Bible will probably blow our minds. I try to keep an open mind.
That’s crazy that you would be open to believing that Jesus, God in the flesh, would ask a sinner for help, even though it is not written about anywhere in His Word, just because some TV show portrays it. I guess it really did do it’s job at misleading people and detracting from the true nature of Christ.
It is written....
It streams free here or on their app, Angel Studios. Should work on any device or TV box including Apple TV.
https://watch.angelstudios.com/thechosen
I think for all Christians the hard party about watching that movie is the understanding of what Jesus went through, because of what I've done, because of my sins.
I get frustrated sometimes when I hear how the Romans crucified Him, or the Jews crucified Him. No...... It wasn't them, it was me.
I stood in the crowd calling for Him to be crucified. I swung the whip that brutalized His body, I swung the hammer that nailed Him to the Cross. And I cast lots for His garments just before I thrust a spear in His side. I did all of that, and have still sinned knowing He bore the weight of those sins.
Yeah, the hardest part at least for me when watching that movie is knowing I was the cause of all that pain and suffering. But even through all of that, also understanding the depths of that Love He had for me and knowing He would do it again "For God so Loved the world that He gave His only Begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life"
Peace
Reminds me of when I have heard people bring up the story of Adam and Eve and say something like “if only they had never eaten of the fruit” or “how could they do that? I wouldn’t have disobeyed if I were them” and they don’t even realize that we are them and are absolutely no better.
The Atonement of the Christ freed all mankind from the Fall of Adam. To say that we are born in sin is a manmade guilt trip.. We grow in sin and rationalize it as normal, to be free of sin through Christ's Atonement is fairly rare in this fallen world, and I have experienced it in my conversion.
You have to accept it in order to be washed from His blood. The rest go to hell. Read your Bible, you clearly disagree with the Word of God if you think we are born without sin. How could you possibly agree with some of the Bible then choose to not believe others? That is so wicked and man-centered, trying to be wise in your own eyes.
https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Being-Born-In-Sin
Man made rules to foster guilt and control the masses; Jesus the Christ's Atonement alone frees mankind from the Fall of Adam. Who are you to pass judgement on me when you do NOT know where I am coming from?? TBS, I do not feel the need to explain myself to you, your hostility speaks volumes to me..
Who can say, “I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin”? Proverbs 20:9
I am hostile against sin and blasphemy, you got that right. You should read your Bible, you are not some special exemption of man. All are born in sin and iniquity, are children of wickedness, and fall short of God’s Glory.
Repentance is the first step and creating discord is not Christ's Way-adamantine opinions hammered into the discussion is NOT the Christ's way-after all, He preferred sinners and publicans to "virtuous" elite.
You seriously need to read your Bible because you are dead wrong on Christ. Jesus’ own words contradict you completely:
Matthew 10:
34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
Luke 12:
51 Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.
Amen
No one killed Him. He died of His own will. Also, His greatest suffering was in the garden.
Not so sure about that. I think His greatest suffering was on the cross when He asked God why He had forsaken Him. I don't know, only speculation, but I think that is when God the Father laid all the sins of the world on Jesus, and because He was then full of OUR sin, God had to look away as He cannot bear the sight of sin. Look at it this way, it's also the only time Jesus was without the Presence of God the Father during His earthly ministry and had the be unbearable, just at the time He really needed God the Father the most. JMHO...
I think you are spot-on. And I cannot imagine the agony of bearing that burden, at that point in time, without God the Father's help. Poor Jesus...we are so undeserving.
Blood from every pore in the garden? I’ve also heard He suffered all for all sons and pains twice. Once on the garden, once on the cross. He can tell us when we get there 🤓
The Garden of Gethsemane was the realization of ALL the sins in the world He would be taking on-He sweat blood and had a ministering angel comfort Him just before the betrayal and arrest. Many things He said at the end fulfilled ancient prophecies and indeed He made ALL things new..
That movie is truly the most powerful, life changing movie I have ever seen. Lent is a great time to rewatch this movie. Each time I watch, I am reminded how Jesus suffered for all of my/our sins. His sacrifice must be remembered until He comes again. I look forward to the sequel about the resurrection.
I watch it every Good Friday. It's awful and awesome at the same time. And on Easter I watch Risen.
Other things of note about the filming:
All kinds of weird things happened on set that kept trying to push production to a halt. Accidents, injuries (such as Jim had), equipment breaking, etc. But the weirdest one that I heard of was when giant hordes of snakes and spiders would consistently crawl into the filming areas. And not just ordinary snakes and spiders, but vicious venomous ones.
Yeah, something was definitely trying to keep this movie from being finished and shown to people, because the end result has led to countless conversions.
To think some still refuse to see this movie because "no graven image..."
What??? So they watch no movies, take no pictures....
You'd be surprised. It's why one movie--I think it was King Of Kings--never showed His face, only showing Him from behind as He was being crucified.
I believe The Robe was the first movie to show a Jesus actor's face.
I couldn't watch it. I know the story and it's so horrific what Jesus went through, I couldn't even watch a faked, hollywood version.
I watched it in the theater with my wife and another couple. It was truly a life changing experience. As the credits rolled on a blank screen it was dead quiet. The theater was full nobody moved or spoke. One guy got up looked around and sat back down. We weren't watching the credits. We were just so struck by what we had just witnessed. And yes it felt like we were watching Jesus, seeing first hand the pain he went through for us.
I am not saying you have to see the movie, but it was much more than a hollywood fake version.
This was my experience seeing it in the theatre. Also I remember I was sobbing, just completely humbled and sobbing while there was just complete silence from hundreds of people. No one got up, no one could speak, many of us cried. It was absolutely a life changing moment for most of us to realize the brutality that he endured.
I couldn't watch it for a long time. I felt the same way. Then around Christmas one year, it was on TV. I cried and got pissed during the crucifixion. I had to step away until near the end.
It is intense, but a beautiful movie. The scene when Mary is holding Jesus’ body after they take Him off the cross is statuesque.
I was 12 when my parents chose to take my older brother, my younger brother and myself. They knew the impact it would have on our lives seeing a movie depiction of Christs suffering. I still remember the emotion I felt knowing MY sins are what caused Him to do the ultimate sacrifice. That was almost 20 years ago..
"The Resurrection" will give Hollywood something to truly cry about.
I saw this on Fakebook the other day. Not sure it's all real. I was trying to verify it before sharing it, and couldn't find anything about him having open heart surgery at all.
Amazing grace!
I highly recommend a music album from 1989 by Kenneth Cope called 'Greater Than Us All'. Every song is about The Savior, and every song is beautiful. My favorite is 'His Hands'.
I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do.
The 4chan link you posted is wrong.
https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/421034370/
There is a market for Christian films. See The Chosen. 0.5 Billion views and counting.
I’m crying with joy reading this.
That’s amazing- I had not heard any of those facts. The Holy Spirit works in amazing ways!
Thanks to Mel Gibson for fronting that $30 million for his vision to bring the gift of Christ to the big screen. Shame on those studios for being so cowardly and afraid to champion this Christian message- but it all worked out for Mel: he took the risk and he reaped all the rewards by producing entirely himself the highest grossing R rated movie ever.
I bet Mel pitched it to all the major studios just to check if their father is the devil still.
Right?
He knew the answer before asking.
he must have. I was watching an interview he did prolly abt 20 years ago now and he goes into "This town is like Hills Have Eyes", meaning Hollywood
https://twitter.com/i/status/1639399710967631873
Lovely story.
Powerful...
I wonder, since so many channel their “character” and actually become possessed a lot, if Jesus was actually speaking through Jim, on set and in character, and we heard the Words of Jesus Christ in real time from the lips of the Lord out of Jim’s mouth? ( I know Jim is used by God, and it makes perfect sense…but I’m talking about what doesn’t make sense. As an entity would speak from within, in a different sounding voice which is their’s, not the person’s it’s coming from, I wonder if people actually got even a snippet or a lot, of Jesus speaking TO them, Himself. No limits on my God!
The Holy Ghost can do remarkable things with promptings and actual words to say.