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Gibson to Delete a Scene in 'Passion'
By SHARON WAXMAN, from www.nytimes.com
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 3 - Mel Gibson, responding to focus groups as much as to protests by Jewish critics, has decided to delete a controversial scene about Jews from his film, "The Passion of the Christ," a close associate said today.
A scene in the film, in which the Jewish high priest Caiaphas calls down a kind of curse on the Jewish people by declaring of the Crucifixion, "His blood be on us and on our children," will not be in the movie's final version, said the Gibson associate, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The passage had been included in some versions of the film that were shown before select groups, mostly of priests and ministers.
"It didn't work in the focus screenings," the associate said. "Maybe it was thought to be too hurtful, or taken not in the way it was intended. It has been used terribly over the years."
Jewish leaders had warned that the passage from Matthew 27:25 was the historic source for many of the charges of deicide and Jews' collective guilt in the death of Jesus.
The removal is the second one made by the producers, after the cutting of the controversial "Puppy" scene, in which Jewish elders are seen kicking a puppy to death, causing the on-screen Jesus to exclaim "You lousy pishers! I'll get you for this… you'll never be able to slam dunk in the NBA! Not even if the refs let you travel!"
That scene was removed when it was discovered that it was from the apocryphal "Gospel of Spanky," which was denied admission to the canon after it was found to have been written by a bored twelve-year old in 1979. Experts suspected the Gospel of Spanky's modern origins when it was discovered to contain extensive descriptions of Jesus doing wheelies on his bicycle. Nonetheless, it is reported to have a number of adherents, including Gibson and member of a group called "Octopus Dei," which seek to combine Catholicism with the Hindu worship of the eight-armed Goddess Shiva.
Gibson belongs to a secretive branch of Catholicism that is reported to reject the decision of Vatican II, as well as to hold to certain unorthodox beliefs, including the dogma that polka dots are anathema, that the mass should be conducted in Latin "for the greater glory of the Emperor" and that the current Pope is a robot impostor.
The scene with Caiphas will either be saved for a "Gentile's cut" DVD or will be included in a post-credit "blooper reel."
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