"Passion" versus "Braveheart"... [View All]

[regnaD kciN]

This thread is intended for those who have seen both films.

I haven't seen The Passion, and don't intend to. However, a number of people I trust say that there is very definitely an anti-Semitic message in the film. Still others I trust have said that there really is no anti-Semitism, Jews and Romans are treated equally, that it's all "much ado about nothing," and so on.

When I saw Braveheart, on the other hand, I was disgusted by the portrayal of Edward II, and the fact that Gibson and the writers had distorted history in order to provide a gay villian. I thought his point for this completely unnecessary addition was to show that the English are so thoroughly contemptable, they've even got a sniveling, cowardly, limp-wristed "faggot" as heir to the throne.

When I posted in various venues that I thought Gibson was including a homophobic message in Braveheart, I was told by many that there was no such thing, that Gibson wouldn't have gone to all the trouble to make that movie just so he could gay-bash, that it was all "much ado about nothing," and so on.

So, my question to those who have seen both films: Do you consider The Passion to have been anti-Semitic but Braveheart to not have been homophobic? Do you consider Braveheart to have been homophoic but The Passion not to have been anti-Semitic? Both? Neither?