Dé Máirt, Aibreán 25, 2006

The "passion" of the Christ

I've seen this movie in recently. (Six months ago, never mind) so I thought I'd put my two cents in.
Many have been appaled by the ultraviolence of the film and accused Mel Gibson of repressed homosexuality. This is unfair. It is well documented that Gibson is a repressed pedophile (see Man Without a Face) At any rate, he was only trying to portray a supposedlly historical event that involved stripping a man naked, beating him to ribbons with "whips", Naling him to a giant tree,and leaving him there until he couldn't breathe and just had to "let go." There is simply no way to film the incident without making it look very gay.

This brings us to Herod Antipas; or rather, how he is depicted in "Passion" and other crucifixion stories. For those who don't know, this would be the son of the Christmastime baby killer. The synoptic Gospels state that Pilate originally sends Christ to Antipas in order to avoid the controversy surrounding him. This is a minor incident in the bible, something of a smoke break in all the hot and heavy action, yet is tends to capture peoples imaginations in a very interesting way.

Gibson's movie, like the medeivel passion plays that inspire it, portray Antipas as a mincing,flaming, gloryhole manning, Judy Collins worshiping, superstereotypical gay man. This contradicts both the historical and biblical record. It was Herod A., after all, who had John the Baptist beheaded in order to impress a woman. Yet even modernist passion plays like "Jesus Christ Superstar" have the gay Antippas. This is especially redundant in the film version of "Superstar" where it is clear that Peter, Pilate, Ciaphas, and especially Judas are all dying for a piece of saviorass.

The only compleatly straight character in "Superstar" is, naturally, Jesus himself. Is this the secret of our Lord's power? Is he the uberhetero, the first man to overcome his own Fraudian perversions? Skeptics dispute this by pointing out that Christ was the one who gave himself up to be "nailed" and "hung". This leaves Antippas as the most hetero figure in the whole sordid affair. It can be argued that that the old figurehead is just as much of a martyr as Christ himself. This brings us finally to our conclusions.

1. Isn't interesting how the stereotype of a gay man has stayed more or less the same since the early dark ages?

2. Herod Antippas has been unfarly slandered for 2000 years because of his brave refusal to involve himself in our perverted rituals. Once again we see how men reward virtue.

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