The Passion of the Christ

Christianity is one of the largest religions in the world. Christians based their faith on Jesus Christ, who is the son of God. In 2004, Mel Gibson directed The Passion of the Christ to show the public who Jesus Christ is and his story of his arrest, trial, and suffering. In today’s world of controversy, the public has different opinions when they first see The Passion of the Christ, such as too much bleeding and doubts of the true reality of what happened to the son of God. In general, critics like and dislike “The passion Of the Christ” based on the reviews of Roger Ebert, J.B Hixson, and Peter T. Chattaway The Passion of the Christ is the highest grossing religious film in worldwide box office of all time. The film demonstrated the last…

Throughout the years the “Passion of the Christ” movies have been used to tell the story about Christ’s death and resurrection. Then in 2004 Mel Gibson made his version of the movie and as I like to say brought it in to the 21st century with updated graphics, violence, and blood. The combination of images, faith, and history this film truly was like no other Passion of Christ movie ever done. The Passion of the Christ is a serious and deep piece of cinematography, it not just show us how much…

The film The Passion of the Christ opens in a scene in which Jesus is tempted and tormented by Satan. At first Jesus is praying in the night with some of his disciples. Then a Satanic figure appears and begins harassing Jesus. Jesus ignores him but begins sweating immensely. Satan then manifest as a snake which Jesus stomps on. Next, Judas appears with soldiers and kisses Jesus on the cheek. In response Jesus is arrested. Peter attempts to intervene, by attacking a soldier. However, Jesus tells…

In 2004 Gibson released The Passion of the Christ. The movie was Mel Gibson’s portrayal of Jesus’s trial and crucifixion. The movie utilizes all four canonical gospel accounts of the Passion story, but also includes many details that are not written in any of the four gospels. For example, Satan is shown in the Garden of Gethsemane. According to many who have seen the movie, Pilate, the Roman governor in charge of the that the story is situated in, is portrayed as having no other choose then to…

focus of special rituals during Holy Week, in which carved figures of Jesus and the Virgin Mary were carried through the streets in imitation of Christ’s Passion. These figures, called santos (religious carvings depicting saints) or bultos (saints carved in the round), often feature solid bases and elongated forms so they can be raised and seen from high. The prominence of saints in Hispanic art stems from the devotional practices of Roman Catholicism, which were transmitted to colonial Mexico…

crucification details were taken from The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. This book is based on the visions a German nun called Anne Catherine Emmerich. She believed that her visions had much more than the Gospel version of the story of Christ's suffering. For exmaple, in the part where the Gospels only tell that Jesus was being whipped, she added much more detail that grabbed Gibson’s interest. In the Gospel version, there is not a clear narrative depiction that is expanded like…

holding the deceased body of Christ in her arms after he was put down from the cross, then later was placed inside the tomb. The most common form being sculptured at that time was the Pietas. Michelangelo’s version of Pietas is a lot less…

meaningful definition of the word passion. Passion in the dictionary is a very vague and simple definition. The definition defines passion as a strong emotion. There are many strong emotions out there in the world that the word passion can be confused, or can be used in the wrong context. It seems like people have taking away the true meaning of passion. People have overlooked the word and substituted the definition with a definition that will never truly complete the word. The true definition…

The Vesperbild and the Pieta are funeral monument pieces conveying the emotions of pity, passion, and pain. Christ and the Virgin Mary effectively capture and translate those emotions from the artists’ imagination. Each sculpture successfully depicts the death of Christ, which Mary holds upon her lap in vein with high details as well. Most importantly, both sculptors found it fit to extend a particular style which they made their own when sculpting. Beyond the Vesperbild and the Pieta both…

France. The subject of the piece is the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ as a baby. During that 13th century, the Virgin Mary was favored to being the subject of many artworks. The piece represents the passion of love that Mary has for her son. It represents…