>>>>>>>http://www.cracked.com/index.php?name=News&sid=2202
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>>>>>>That would really be a problem for anyone who uses movies as history lessons. Thankfully, I know it's entertainment.
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>>>>>You can't run from truth with think all movies are just entertainment. Some movies based on true things... Change the record. You play some song continuously... Run your brain. You can do better (I hope)...
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>>>>Documentaries are meant to be true. All others are entertainment. I didn't really expect you to do better.
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>>>If everything Mel Gibson's done to portray the English were true, I'd be ashamed to declare my nationality!
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>>>He really hates us for some reason.
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>>>I wouldn't be surprised if he had English pharisees in "The Passion of Christ" condemning X to death.
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>>>OTOH wasn't that film all in Aramaic and/or Latin or summat?
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>>"The Passion of Christ" was in Aramaic. I wonder how many people had even heard of Aramaic before the movie came out.
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>Well I for one had! I knew JC didn't speak Yiddish! :-)
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>>What is the general view of Australians towards England? I thought it was pretty positive, although I wouldn't be surprised if there is some lingering resentments given the origins of Australia. (Well, not the origin; settlement by whites).
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>otoh Gibson is an American, despite the fact he lived many years in Oz.


Wouldn't he be better described as an Australian who has now lived many years in the U.S.? I don't think of his as any more "American" than Russell Crowe or Michael Caine.