red rag to a bigot
Gibson has put up £16 million to pay for a film that will be shot in Aramaic and Latin, probably without sub-titles. So far, no distributor has been found for a movie whose critics say it is anti-Semitic and will fuel bigotry and hatred.
Last week, he gave his view of Frank Rich, the New York Times columnist who has implied that Gibson's father is a Holocaust denier. 'I want to kill him,' Gibson allegedly said. 'I want his intestines on a stick. I want to kill his dog.'
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When Monty Python's Life of Brian opened in New York in 1979, the boss of the Rabbinical alliance of America expressed the rage of half-a-million Jews over a movie 'made in hell', and the Catholic film-monitoring office said watching it was a sin...
—Mary Riddell The Observer 09.14.03