{"id":53748,"date":"2016-11-04T10:40:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T17:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=53748"},"modified":"2016-11-04T10:40:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T17:40:22","slug":"mel-gibson-says-the-resurrection-will-be-like-an-acid-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/11\/mel-gibson-says-the-resurrection-will-be-like-an-acid-trip.html","title":{"rendered":"Mel Gibson says The Resurrection<\/i> will be “like an acid trip”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Mel Gibson is still talking about The Resurrection<\/a><\/i>, his proposed sequel to The Passion of the Christ<\/a><\/i>. Two months ago, he said it will have flashbacks to the Old Testament<\/a>, and earlier this week, he said it might follow Jesus into Hades<\/a>. Now he\u2019s made a few more comments about the film, in a public interview with Raymond Arroyo.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the fact that his film won\u2019t simply be a chronological retelling of the events described in the gospels, Gibson said:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the Burnett version, you know. A man comes back, walks through walls, has holes in hands, eats a piece of fish. It\u2019s not that. It\u2019s a big, vast, theological experience, I think. You need to delve into what that means in a way that you take that as the centrepiece and you juxtapose it against many things that go on around it \u2014 and in other realms, so it gets pretty wild. It\u2019s like an acid trip.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I assume \u201cthe Burnett version\u201d is a reference to Mark Burnett\u2019s miniseries The Bible<\/a><\/i> and its big-screen spin-off Son of God<\/a><\/i>. Interestingly, Burnett himself went on to produce A.D. The Bible Continues<\/a><\/i>, which made significant use of special effects to depict the \u201cother realms\u201d, at least where the Ascension was concerned<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gibson went on to hint at how far back his film\u2019s back-story might go:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just the neverending kind of\u2013 It just keeps revealing itself more and more, the further you get into it. Everything from the fall of the angels to the\u2013 You know, I mean, it\u2019s just crazy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Finally, Arroyo said it sounded like Gibson\u2019s film wouldn\u2019t be a collection of \u201cgreatest hits\u201d from the book of Acts, and Gibson replied:<\/p>\n

No it\u2019s not that. That\u2019s not it. It\u2019s like, why didn\u2019t they recognize him on the way to Emmaus, you know?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s a very good question, and it\u2019s one that relatively few films have tackled. In A.D. Anno Domini<\/a><\/i>, the two men on the road to Emmaus have never met Jesus or his followers before, so the fact that they don\u2019t recognize Jesus isn\u2019t an issue. And in The Miracle Maker<\/a><\/i>, Jesus\u2019 face is obscured by a head-covering of sorts, so the two disciples he meets don\u2019t get a good look at him. And those, I think, are the only film depictions of this story that I have seen. (Matt Page<\/a> mentions a few others.)<\/p>\n

So, it sounds like Gibson is proposing a more mystical (for lack of a better word) reason for why the disciples on the road to Emmaus didn\u2019t recognize Jesus?<\/p>\n

As ever, we\u2019ll find out one day, if and when Gibson actually makes this film.<\/p>\n

You can watch the interview here:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=653Jk1sffMY<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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