Hi, just curious but exactly what is wrong with depicting certain Jews around 30 AD in a bad way ?
In the last 20 years atleast there have been numerous movies depicting one or other nation, belief or religion in an unfavourable way.
In Indiana Jones, Saving Private Ryan, Schindlers List and countless other WWII movies, we portray Germans in a bad light. We can claim that we are actually portraying the "Nazi's" in a bad light, but lets be honest, we are essentially making out Germans in the 40's to be cruel killers. This is all of 50 years ago. The grandparents of most 20 year old German citizens today.
If we watch Mel Gibson's "Braveheart" or "The Patriot", now the English are depicted as a cruel nation.
"Pearl harbour", "The Last of the Mohicans", "Amistadt". Someone gets the short straw here.
Now my main point is as follows. Firstly, personally I bear no grudge against Jews in any case. I am as much guilty of Jesus's death as the next man and realise Jesus had to die to save our sins. What I don't understand is why there is such an outcry over anti-sematism in this movie. Was there an outcry over the torture of Wallace in Braveheart ? Why is it thus so unacceptable to depict Jews from 2000 years ago as the killers of Christ ?
Sorry, just that I've managed to watch countless movies depicting christians and the clergy in the middle ages as murderous bigots, yet never seen it make the forums.
cheers
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