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Article: "PASSION" LOSES REALISM WITH ITS BLUE-EYED JESUS.(COMMENTARY)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- March 14, 2004
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Byline: steven g. vegh
Whatever else you may think about "The Passion of the Christ," it might seem that filmmaker Mel Gibson deserves credit at least for scrupulous attention to detail and physical realism.
Much of the movie was shot in southern Italy at Matera , an arid location chosen because it not only looks like a 2,000-year-old Mediterranean town - it is a 2,000-year-old Mediterranean town. Costumes were meticulously designed and hand-crafted. And, of course, Gibson insisted that the script be entirely in Aramaic and Latin, two languages common to that ancient time and region.
But when it came to casting, Gibson abandoned authenticity ...
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