Is this true? My mom has vision problems due to MS - is there any way she could obtain (maybe when it comes out on video perhaps) a version that she could hear???
The Passion is only viewable in subtitles???
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It's in Latin and Aramaic. I heard someone say parts were in Greek (not sure about that)
Gibson wanted the movie to have authenticity so the actors had to learn the languages. Originally he did not even want to use subtitles. But eventually gave in. I've heard of no plans for it to be dubbed.
Gibson wanted the movie to have authenticity so the actors had to learn the languages. Originally he did not even want to use subtitles. But eventually gave in. I've heard of no plans for it to be dubbed.
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I'm afraid not. Mel Gibson thought it would lose some of it's reality if we were hearing it in modern english so it was filmed in the languages of the time. Mainly latin and greek I believe.
Originally he didn't even want the sub-titles. He only budged on that because of the complaints that some would use the movie as a reason for anti-semitism and he wanted it to be clear that some of the jews were on the side of Jesus.
No info about the DVDs has come out yet, but it's Gibsons call and I doubt he'll change his decision for the DVD.
Originally he didn't even want the sub-titles. He only budged on that because of the complaints that some would use the movie as a reason for anti-semitism and he wanted it to be clear that some of the jews were on the side of Jesus.
No info about the DVDs has come out yet, but it's Gibsons call and I doubt he'll change his decision for the DVD.
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I hope so. My mom really wants to see it (even though she knows it's probably going to cause an attack from her MS because she'll get so emotional and emotions (stress, saddness, depression, ect) tend to trigger her attacks) the only thing that sucks is that she won't know what anyone is saying - she'll only have the visual if there are subtitles because her eye nerves have been badly effected by the MS and she can no longer make out even the largest of words on screen or paper.
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Is there somewhere I could write to try to send a letter or something requesting that they release a dubbed version?
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Truthfully according to some who have seen it, subtitles aren't really necessary. From what I understand getting Mel to agree to the subtitles wasn't easy. And a quality dubbing would probably be fairly expensive. Anything's possible, of course but Mel's desire for this movie to be authentic has been very strong. I tend to agree with Marissa.
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I didn't realize until yesterday that the movie was in sub-titles. Shocked me really. I get what Mel is trying to do but sub-titles ????? It would be cool though to hear this in it's original language. I may need to see the movie twice to get the full effect.
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