From my Taki’s Magazine movie review of the new WWII / horror movie directed by Mel Gibson, “Hacksaw Ridge:”

Rather like Donald Trump’s campaign for president in 2016, Mel Gibson’s 2004 movie The Passion of the Christ was not popular in Beverly Hills. I overheard the following conversation in a Rodeo Drive screening room while Gibson’s Aramaic-language movie was doing historic business in Chicano neighborhoods:

Man: The Passion really doesn’t work as a movie. I mean, if you don’t know who the characters are, you can’t figure out what’s going on. And why is he washing people’s feet?

Woman: It’s like Gibson expects you to know the story already.

Man: And it’s so historically inaccurate. The men didn’t have long hair back then.

Woman: Now, what I really like is The Da Vinci Code .

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