The Passion of the Christ

As always, differences with the written source material, especially relating to artistic decisions, are not counted as goofs.

Historical inaccuracies are similarly exempt, especially when caused by reliance on sectarian traditions or Renaissance/Baroque art.

During the sequence when Jesus carries his cross, he often falls down.

His hand placement on the cross changes several time between shots.

As Jesus carries his cross, the blood on the cross disappears and reappears between shots.

The loin cloth dripping in blood Jesus was wearing before he started carrying the cross changed back to a clean loin cloth as soon as he started his journey.

When Mary goes to clean the blood, as the camera pans over the bloody cobbles, the boom is reflected in the largest pool of blood.

In the flashback scene where Jesus kneels to draw a line in the sand, he reaches across with his right hand.

The hand that actually draws the line is a left hand, with the palm facing away.

A shawl appears on Mary Magdalene's head between shots after Jesus, on the cross, says, "Son behold your mother.

Before Judas commits suicide he puts his hands to his face and we can see that the makeup on his right hand is peeling away.

In one shot of Jesus on the cross, the cliff or bank in the background is falling before the "earthquake" starts.

When Pontius Pilate talks to Jesus alone he moves to the right of Jesus.

In the next shot he appears on his left-hand side.

When Pontius Pilate first enters the court and rests his arm on his stone chair, the chair wobbles.

During the first half of the scourge scene, Jesus' hands are dark and bloodied by his shackles.

Then a dramatic close-up shows them nearly blood-free.

During the sequence when Jesus carries his cross, the Blood of Christ on the cross disappears and reappears.

Jesus' computer-generated brown eyes sometimes fade into 'Jim Caviezel' (qv)'s blue ones.

This happens when Jesus is taken at Gethsemane, and again after Jesus has first taken the cross on his shoulders (before the shot with the donkeys and palm leaves in the background).

The Roman officers use Latin to speak to each other, but the Oriental common language of the Empire was Greek.

The Roman soldiers that flog Jesus and mock him all the way to the mountain speak a flawed and often incorrect form of Latin.

This was done intentionally, as the Roman army often consisted not of Roman citizens, but of people from conquered areas volunteering for duty, for whom Latin would be a second language in which they were not fluent.

Flipped shotJesus stumbles and falls to the ground while carrying the cross, his injuries are to his left eye for one shot.

By the next shot the injuries have returned to his right eye.

Flipped shotwhen Jesus is whipped, before the Centurion says, "Pick him up," the swollen eye changes from right eye to left eye, then back in the next shot.

When Jesus falls down the steps while carrying the cross you can see the back of his left leg which has no scourge marks.

Jesus' arm is dislocated in order to make his hand reach the nail hole, meaning that his arms should be fully extended and straight at all times.

However on almost all shots of him on the cross, his body sags forward with his arms bent at an almost 90 degree angle.

Satan is seen moving through the crowd while Jesus is being beaten.

Jesus is the only one who is supposed to be able to see Satan, however, one man in the crowd follows Satan with his eyes as Satan moves past him.

Throughout the movie, characters speak in Aramaic.

However, this particular form of Aramaic is the Syrian variant, spoken in that region in during the VII and VIII centuries and not the I century Palestinian form, which is what people in the times of Jesus would have spoken.

The inscription above Jesus' cross only written in two languages, Latin and another language (probably Aramaic).

However, according to the gospel of John, one of the written source material for this movie, the inscription was written in three languagesHebrew, Latin and Greek.

Well I put this on thinking it would be a bit of a laugh, turns out it's a in foreign so I had to read for two hours whilst being bored out of my skull by this pretentious nonsense.

Prepare yourself for a lot of violence and a lot of bloody scenes. This is the most bloody biblical movie I've ever seen, a bit too much if you ask me.

Mel Gibson, most known as an actor, has directed a very brutal film called "The Passion of the Christ". With a running time of at least two hours, this film focuses heavily on Jesus' last hours and crucifixion, which involved lots of torture as we people know it from the Bible.

The Passion of the Christ is a film about one of the more obscure and myseterious figures in human history. Sure, we all know about Christianity and we all know that Jesus was tortured before he was executed.

I'm in 6th grade and my religion teacher showed this movie to our class (don't worry our parents signed a permission slip). And throughout the entire movie, I was crying my eyes out, and so were other girls in my class.

Only one other time have I been left speechless by a film, and that was Schindler's List. But even that experience paled in comparison to how emotionally drained and grateful I was for watching Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ.

Films on Christian themes have been around for a long time. Some of them like Jesus of Nazareth have made pretty good impressions and still stand out as classics.

Worth watching and deserve to be rewatched again, can be consider from the greatest movie ever made.

Is The Passion of the Christ a good or even great film because it's so harrowing and so effective or is it absolute garbage consisting of strung together scenes of brutality and humiliation no one really needs to witness as part of a film going experience. I'm going to have to veer into the realm of the positive for this one because I didn't get that reaction many might to do with the film being one, long, arduous procession of human misery.