Bonnie and Clyde

Accessed June 17, 2005. Apparently one of the actors portraying the Roman Guards was supposed to strike a board on Caviezel's back to prevent from injuring Caviezel but had missed the mark. Bonnie and Clyde live on (http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040523-120654-8315r.htm). Jim Caviezel admitted that he was struck in the back accidentally during the scourging sequence, leaving a significant scar on his back. ^{[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_and_Clyde#endnote_festival)}Washington Times, The (2004). This is the same age Christ is said to have been upon his crucifixion. ISBN 1571687947. Jim Caviezel also bears the initials "JC." When Gibson first requested Caviezel to portray Christ in early 2002, Caviezel, was 33 years of age.

Eakin Press. [2] (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001029/bio) and [3] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3209223.stm). Bonnie and Clyde: A Twenty-First-Century Update. Jim Caviezel, who played Jesus Christ, was struck by lightning during the shooting; while the assistant director, Jan Michelini, was allegedly struck by lightning twice. ^{[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_and_Clyde#endnote_knight)}Knight, James R.; Davis, Jonathan (2003). The film has also been criticized by several fundamentalist Protestant groups for its Catholic and Ecumenist overtones. Accessed June 17, 2005. While partially due to graphic violence portrayed in the film, of more concern is the purported anti-semitic overtones of the film.

In Search of Bonnie and Clyde in Louisiana (http://www.watermelon-kid.com/dallas-sights/barrow/louisiana.htm). This movie is considered extremely controversial by both religious and atheistic groups. ^{[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_and_Clyde#endnote_ambush)}Butler, Steven. (2003). Its release in 950 theaters in North America averaged only some 10 viewers per showing. ISBN 0806136251. The recut version's showing in theaters was not successful. University of Oklahoma Press. This has caused some theater chains which do not exhibit "unrated" films to turn down the recut version, while others will be enforcing the R rating it would have received. Some theaters have passed on the recut version simply because the film is already available on DVD.

My Life With Bonnie & Clyde. However, the movie was still deemed too violent by the MPAA for a lesser rating than R, so Gibson decided to release it without a rating. ^{[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_and_Clyde#endnote_blanche)}Barrow, Blanche Caldwell; John Neal Phillips (Ed.) (2004). Gibson's stated aim was to make the film more family-friendly. Every year near the anniversary of the ambush, a "Bonnie and Clyde Festival" is hosted in the town of Gibsland, Louisiana ^ . Some five or six minutes of the original version were cut in order to make the film less violent. The Bonnie and Clyde death site, still comparatively isolated on Highway 154 in Louisiana's Bienville Parish, is commemorated by two markers — one of stone (now almost destroyed by souvenir thieves), and a newer one of metal^ . In March of 2005, Gibson released a slightly edited version of the film, titled The Passion Recut, to the theaters.

Furthermore, the 2003 Jay-Z and Beyoncé Knowles song and music video, "Bonnie and Clyde '03" is based on the two bank robbers. (Emmerich received beatification in 2004, though her visions were not considered as material for the process, since they were written down by another, who appears to have elaborated on them.) Details beyond primary textual sources are to be expected in dramatizations of historical events, but the trend and tenor of non-source material can assist in understanding the general tendencies of the creators. The first film based on Bonnie and Clyde was made only three years after their deaths and titled You Only Live Once, starring Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sydney. For Catholics, the visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich are not considered part of the oral Apostolic Tradition and aren't something that Roman Catholics must accept as true lest they be outside the faith; Catholics are free to accept or not accept her visions. Dorothy Provine also starred in the 1958 movie The Bonnie Parker Story. Most of these details have been taken from Roman Catholic "Sacred Tradition" and the visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich, who vividly described Jesus' Passion in the book "The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to the Meditations of Anne Catherine Emmerich" (Sulzbach, 1833). The next year Brigitte Bardot interpreted a Serge Gainsbourg song about them. (Where possible, the source of these details is indicated in parentheses after the entry.).

Bonnie and Clyde, which starred Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, was critically acclaimed and contributed significantly to the glamorous image of the criminal pair. The film was shot at Rome's Cinecitta Studios and various locations in Italy, much of it in Matera, on a budget of US$25 million, financed entirely by Gibson. In 1967, Arthur Penn directed a romanticized film version of the tale. Crew:. (Ford received a similar letter around the same time from someone claiming to be John Dillinger and used both for car advertisements.) Bonnie's aforementioned poem, "The Story of Bonnie and Clyde," was published in several newspapers. Cast:. Clyde is alleged to have written a letter to the Ford Motor Company praising their "dandy car," signing it "Clyde Champion Barrow", though the handwriting has never been authenticated. The film's principal cast and crew are as follows:.

Bonnie and Clyde were among the first celebrity criminals of the modern era.
. Clyde Barrow is buried in the Western Heights Cemetery and Bonnie Parker in the Crown Hill Memorial Park, both in Dallas, Texas. Australian photographer Ken Duncan was invited by Mel Gibson to be present during filming and offers limited edition prints [1] (http://www.kenduncan.com/gallery.php?ms=21&) and a book full of photography shot on location.
. Gibson intended the movie to be faithful not to the New Testament alone, but rather to the New Testament as viewed through Catholic tradition, which accepts as valid a number of later sources. With the growing outcry over the Bonnie and Clyde crime spree in which law enforcement had been thwarted repeatedly, even officials from outside Louisiana had been given a free hand toward the goal of ending it. Gibson's religious beliefs, which inspired the film, are those of traditional Catholicism, which rejects most of the pastoral reforms set by the Second Vatican Council, commonly referred to as Vatican II.

Some of the posse, including Frank Hamer, took and kept for themselves stolen guns that were found in the death car, with the approval of Lee Simmons, "Special Escape Investigator for the Texas Prison System". He also co-wrote the screenplay. Oakley is reported to have been haunted for the rest of his life by his actions that day. Mel Gibson played a crucial role in getting the film made, putting up his money to finance the project and directing and co-producing the film. The posse was led by former Texas Ranger captain Frank Hamer, who had never before seen Bonnie or Clyde. Controversy lingers over whether Bonnie Parker should have been killed, and whether the first shot, fired into Clyde Barrow's head by Prentis Oakley with a borrowed Remington Model 8, was too hasty. Main article: Making of The Passion of the Christ. Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed and gunned down May 23, 1934, on a desolate road near their hide-out in Black Lake, Louisiana, by a posse of four Texas and two Louisiana officers (the Louisiana pair added solely for jurisdictional reasons, an aspect of pre-FBI America that Clyde had exploited to its fullest when selecting robbery and hideout locations). According to Rottentomatoes.com the same number of critics praised the film as hated it.

Clyde Barrow and Henry Methvin killed two young highway patrolmen near Grapevine, Texas, on April 1, 1934, and another policeman five days later near Commerce, Oklahoma. Critics were polarized over the film. Again, they escaped. The film was re-released on March 11, 2005 "recut", or in other words reedited, in which Gibson removed approximately 5 minutes of the most graphic footage, in an effort to broaden the audience of the film. Bonnie and Clyde regrouped and, on November 22, 1933, were ambushed yet again, this time as they were meeting family members at an impromptu rendezvous near Sowers, Texas. Taking $370m in the US, it became the highest-grossing R-rated film ever made, and the 9th highest all-time domestic gross. Buck died five days later, in a Perry, Iowa hospital. After months of interest and controversy (primarily over alleged anti-Semitism) that led to record pre-release sales, the movie opened in the United States on February 25 (Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent), 2004.

escaped on foot. The film's dialogue is in Latin and in a reconstructed Aramaic. Clyde, Bonnie, and W.D. Mel Gibson financed and directed this film adaptation of the traditional Passion play, which is a Christian tradition during the season of Lent. Buck was shot several more times, and he and Blanche were captured. The Passion of the Christ (2004) is an independent film about the last twelve hours of the life of Jesus Christ. On July 24, 1933, the Barrow gang was ambushed at an abandoned park near Dexter, Iowa. The Last Supper is shown in the theologically right moment with the consecration Words of Jesus: "This is My Body, which is given up for you and the many ...".

Buck Barrow was shot in the head, and Blanche was nearly blinded from glass fragments in her eye. The prospects for holding out against the ensuing manhunt dwindled. The table is higher than is normal, and Mary remarks that it (the table) would never catch on. At a high price, the gang escaped once again. Jesus is shown at home with Mary, showing her the new table that he had built. He assembled a large group, complete with an armored car, but law enforcement was still no match for the firepower of the Barrows, who had recently robbed an armory. Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey, welcomed with palm leaves by the crowds. Combined with the other reports of suspicious behavior, the sheriff was confident he was on the trail of the Barrow gang. Jesus told Peter to his face, "Three times you will deny me.".

A Platte City druggist called the sheriff when Blanche bought medical supplies for Bonnie. The curtain in the temple was ripped after the crucifixion. After the Joplin shootout, several states had issued alerts for any unknown people buying medical supplies. The words of Jesus on the cross, entrusting Mary to an apostle's care (see John 19:26-27). The gang moved several times, eventually renting two cabins near Platte City, Missouri in July. He asked Jesus, "Remember me when you come into your kingdom;" Jesus responded, "Today you will be with me in Paradise." This is a choice between two versions: in the other, the repentance of the one thief is not detailed. Jones, and killed a city marshal. The other said that he and his fellow criminal deserved to die, but Jesus was not worthy of death.

After meeting up with Blanche and Buck Barrow again, they stayed at one place until Buck bungled a local robbery with W.D. One of the criminals mocked Jesus. When finally away, their latest hostages released, Clyde insisted that Bonnie be allowed to convalesce. Jesus was crucified alongside two criminals. Though she was seriously injured, Clyde's first requirement was to get them out of the area — a difficult task with the attention drawn by the accident. The crucifixion took place on the top of a hill. It rolled, and Bonnie was trapped in the passenger seat as battery acid leaked onto her right leg. The man who carried the cross for Jesus was named Simon, as noted in all three Synoptic Gospels.

Jones and Bonnie, Clyde missed some construction signs, dropping the car into a ravine. (It is also possible that Judas impaled himself, and that his entrails consequently spilled out onto the field.). In June 1933, while driving with W.D. Judas went to the center of the field, and fell head first on to the ground and his body burst open. Sleeping peacefully was nearly impossible. However, a verse in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 1:18) indicates that Judas purchased a field with the money he earned betraying Jesus. Even with thousands of dollars from a bank robbery, sleeping in a bed was a luxury for a member of the Barrow gang. This is in keeping with the description of the fate of Judas found in the Gospel according to Matthew (Matthew 27:5).

Short tempers led to regular arguments. Judas commits suicide by hanging himself from a tree. One member was always assigned watch. (Matthew 27:4-5). Clyde was a machine behind the wheel, driving dangerous roads and searching for places where they might sleep or have a meal without being discovered. Judas tries to return the blood money to the Jewish leaders. Blanche Barrow recounts in a recently published manuscript^  much of what it was like to be constantly running. Pilate offers the crowd a choice: release Jesus, or release another condemned prisoner in Jesus's place.

Despite the glamorous image often associated with the Barrow gang, they were desperate and discontent. Pilate finds no "cause" to put Jesus to death. Afterward, Bonnie and Clyde draped coats or hats over the license plates of their stolen vehicles when taking pictures. The Gospels unmistakably hint at this. The film was developed by the Joplin Globe, and yielded many now famous photos, two of which are shown above. Pilate is hesitant to condemn Jesus to death. Jones was wounded, and they had left most of their possessions at the rented apartment — including a camera with an exposed roll of pictures. The leaders bring Jesus to Pilate for punishment.

The Barrow gang was able to get away at Joplin, but W.D. They spit in his face and beat him. The survivors later testified that they had fired only a combined fourteen rounds in the conflict. Contrary to the account popularized in the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde, after the initial volley, Blanche Barrow was seen walking down the driveway and into the street with almost surreal calm, trying to coax her runaway dog back to the garage and into the car. Jewish leaders accuse Jesus of violating their religious tradition. Jones quickly killed one lawman and fatally wounded another. Both Matthew and Mark relate this. He and W.D. After his arrest and delivery to the Temple, Jesus is slapped, punched and spat upon in the presence of the Sanhedrin before any trial is held.

Though caught by surprise, Clyde, noted for his cool under fire, was gaining far more experience in gun battles than most lawmen. Peter cuts off the ear of a man, when the soldiers come to arrest Jesus; Jesus heals that man (see, e.g., John 18:10, Matt 26:51). Not knowing what awaited them, local lawmen assembled only a two-car force to confront the suspected bootleggers living in the rented apartment over a garage. Soldiers come to arrest Jesus there. As was common with Bonnie and Clyde, their next brush with the law arose from their generally suspicious behavior, not because their identity was discovered. Judas identifies Jesus to the soldiers with a kiss. By April, he and his wife Blanche were living with Clyde, Bonnie, and W.D. Jones in a temporary hideout in Joplin, Missouri — according to some accounts, merely to visit and attempt to talk Clyde into giving himself up. Judas receives 30 pieces of silver from the Jewish leaders for betraying Jesus's whereabouts.

On March 22, 1933, Clyde's brother Buck was granted a full pardon and released from prison. Jesus chides them for falling asleep instead. Many of their crimes were committed in remote areas, with few witnesses and limited forensics capabilities. Jesus asks his three chief followers, Peter, James and John to "watch" (i.e., stay awake) while he prays. Given the gang's relatively long crime spree, combined with the large number of guns, cars, and people that floated through it, history books can only speculate with regard to details and direct responsibility for many robberies and killings assigned to Bonnie and Clyde. Jesus prays in the Garden of Gethsemane. Jones, Buck Barrow, Joe Palmer, and Henry Methvin. This detail is not present in the Bible - it only tells of the arrival of the women at the tomb, where Jesus is nowhere to be found.

Other members of the Barrow gang known or thought to have murdered are Raymond Hamilton, W.D. The final scene of the movie shows Jesus leaving the tomb after the Resurrection. Clyde was a probable shooter in approximately ten murders. In the Gospels it is only reported that the curtain at the holy of holies was split. However, though there's no solid evidence that Bonnie ever shot or killed anyone, Clyde and many of his partners would not hesitate to shoot anybody, civilian or lawman, if they felt their own safety or mobility were in jeopardy. The earthquake causes a huge fissure to split the Temple down the center. Stories of these encounters may have contributed to the mythic aura of Bonnie and Clyde — a couple reviled and adored by the same public. It is weird, it is shocking, it's almost too much—just like turning Jesus over to continue scourging him on his chest is shocking and almost too much, which is the exact moment when this appearance of the Devil and the baby takes place." Another interpretation held by some viewers was that the baby was actually the Antichrist, symbolically being nurtured on the hatred of Jesus by the crowds.

Between 1932 and 1934, there were several incidents in which the Barrow gang kidnapped lawmen or robbery victims, usually releasing them far from home, sometimes with money to help them get back. Instead of a normal mother and child you have an androgynous figure holding a 40-year-old 'baby' with hair on his back. That was the first killing of a lawman by what was later known as the Barrow gang. What is more tender and beautiful than a mother and a child? So the Devil takes that and distorts it just a little bit. When they were approached by the local Sheriff and his undersheriff, Clyde and Ray Hamilton opened fire, killing the undersheriff. No mention of this is in the Gospels, and Mel Gibson is reported to have said (http://www.christianitytoday.com/movies/news/040301-passion.html) "it's evil distorting what's good. However, the wife of the murder victim was shown a photo of Clyde by police, and she selected him as one of the shooters. In August 1932, while Bonnie was visiting her mother, Clyde and two associates happened to be drinking at a dance in Oklahoma (illegal under prohibition). The devil is shown carrying an "Ugly Baby" during Christ's flogging.

While Bonnie had been in jail, Clyde had participated in the murder of a store owner during a robbery, albeit only as the driver. In the film Jesus builds a table in a rather modern style -- one that one would sit at using chairs, but his mother tells him that "it'll never catch on.". Having spent two months in the Kaufman, Texas jail, Bonnie returned to Dallas in June of 1932, and was soon back on the road with Clyde. The crucified criminal who mocked Jesus was shown being pecked at mercilessly by a raven. She claimed to have been kidnapped, and a grand jury failed to indict her. Emmerich, chapter 43, and the apocryphal "Acts of Pilate," also known as the "Gospel of Nicodemus".). Clyde escaped, and Bonnie and Fults were arrested. (Cf.

Though Clyde's astounding driving skill and ability to evade capture were later grudgingly respected by law enforcement, this situation ended poorly, perhaps because the gang was finally reduced to stealing mules for transportation in the Texas farm country. The names assigned to the thieves crucified with Christ, Dismas and Gesmas (also Gestas), are traditional but are not given in Scripture. The incident followed a pattern for Bonnie and Clyde that persisted until their deaths — desperate evasion at high speed down often impassable roads, stealing cars and swapping stolen plates regularly. (Reportedly a mistake in the filming that Gibson decided "looked good".). They escaped after exchanging fire, rejoined Bonnie, and attempted to leave the "hot" area. When they are flipped face-down, Jesus and the cross seem to levitate above the ground, and when flipped back-down, both land with high impact on the ground. In April, a night watchman saw Barrow and Ralph Fults breaking into a hardware store (the exact location of the store is disputed; local newspapers reported that it was Mabank, Texas). After Jesus is nailed to the cross but before it has been raised, Roman soldiers flip the cross and Jesus over.

He recruited help, and set about arming and financing the operation. (Emmerich chapter 38.). However, he returned to Texas within weeks, embroiled in a plan to raid Eastham prison and free associate Raymond Hamilton and others. When Jesus' right arm does not extend far enough to reach a nail hole on the cross, a Roman soldier seems to dislocate the arm at the shoulder by pulling it with a rope until the palm is over the hole. After his release in 1932, Clyde moved to Massachusetts, purportedly to make a clean start. Though these events are traditionally accepted in the Roman Catholic Church as part of the Stations of the Cross, they are never mentioned in the Gospels. (Emmerich describes seven falls and also the encounter with Mary, chapters 31-36.). A prisoner serving a life sentence took the blame willingly for this killing. Also, Mary goes to Jesus so that she may comfort Him.

It was there, at Eastham Camp 1, that it appears he first killed another man — a fellow prisoner named "Big Ed" — who is alleged to have beaten and raped Clyde. While travelling along the Via Dolorosa, Jesus falls under the weight of the cross three times. Except for a one-week escape ending with his recapture in Ohio, Clyde remained incarcerated in the Texas state prison at Eastham Farm until early 1932. (Emmerich, chapter 34, which also includes her offering Jesus a drink.). They arrested him there, and he was sentenced to prison for 2 years (seven concurrent, 2-year terms for burglary and auto theft). This event does not appear in any Bible narrative, but is a depiction of the Roman Catholic tradition of Veronica's Veil. By mid-February 1930, Clyde and Bonnie were seeing each other regularly, to the point where the police staked out her mother's house, hoping to catch the wanted Barrow. Along the Via Dolorosa, the image of Jesus' face is transferred to a cloth given to him by a woman.

Nobody guessed where it would lead."^ . Emmerich, chapter 36.). Nobody thought it was anything special. (Cf. "A bored, lonely, young, out-of-work waitress, abandoned by her imprisoned husband, goes over to her brother's house and meets a charming young fellow. Simon's name and the fact that he helped Jesus carry the cross are in all three Synoptic Gospels, but the rest of the event is not in the Bible. Clarence's sister had a social gathering the evening of January 5, 1930 in the Dallas neighborhood of Oak Cliff. Simon of Cyrene, who helps Jesus carry the cross and puts his arm around him, is debased, treated poorly by a Roman soldier, and called "Jew" with a sneer.

There is some disagreement over how Bonnie and Clyde first met, but the most prevalent story is that it was through his friend Clarence Clay. Along the Via Dolorosa, Jesus is repeatedly rope whipped by a trailing Roman soldier. Though known for robbing banks, he preferred smaller jobs, robbing grocery stores and filling stations at a rate far outpacing the ten to fifteen bank robberies attributed to him and the Barrow gang. (Emmerich, chapter 23.). However, despite holding down "square" jobs during the period 1927 through 1929, he also cracked safes, burgled stores, and stole cars. After the scourging, Mary wipes up the blood of Jesus with towels provided by Pilate's wife. In both of these instances there is the remote possibility that Clyde acted without criminal intent. (See flagellation.).

His second arrest, with brother Buck Barrow, came soon after — this time for possession of stolen goods (turkeys). The Gospels state only that he was scourged. He was first arrested in late 1926, after running when police confronted him over a rental car he'd failed to return on time. During the scourging scene Jesus is nearly flayed alive, back and front, by a variety of whip implements, some with embedded shells, glass and nails. Clyde "Champion" Chestnut Barrow was born on March 24, 1909, in Telico, Texas, (near Dallas), one of many children in a poor farming family. The gospel of Matthew only mentions a message from Pilate's wife delivered while Pilate is hearing the case.). Her poem "The Story of Bonnie and Clyde" is a remarkably personal account of their crime spree and looming demise. Emmerich, chapter 19.

She was fond of creative writing and the arts. (Cf. At only 4 feet 10 inches, she was a stalwart and loyal companion to Clyde Barrow as they evaded capture and awaited the violent, early deaths they viewed as certain. Pilate is shown discussing with his wife the fragility of his relationship with Tiberius Caesar, emphasizing orders Caesar gave him to avoid uprisings in Judea. Often portrayed as Clyde Barrow's equal in crime, Bonnie's role in the many robberies, murders, and auto thefts of the Barrow gang was usually limited to logistics support. The identification of Mary Magdalene with the adulterous woman is a matter of contention between the Catholic Church and various Christian denominations, feminists, and adherents to "New Age" religions. Although he was sentenced to 5 years in prison shortly thereafter, they never divorced, and Bonnie was wearing Roy Thornton's wedding ring when she died. Mary Magdalene is shown as "the woman taken in adultery" saved from execution by Jesus' famous "let him who is without sin cast the first stone" statement.

Her husband soon drifted away in spurts, once for over a year, and in January 1929, she told him they were through. Although this was a common caricature of Herod in medieval Passion plays, it does not appear in the Gospels and is contrary to the historical record regarding Antipas. Noted for homesickness throughout her short life, she longed to be near her mother, Emma Parker. Herod Antipas is portrayed as a mincing, lisping, effeminate homosexual, complete with a "boy-toy". She married Roy Thornton on September 25, 1926 — a short-lived pairing. (Emmerich, chapter 17.). Bonnie Parker (full name) was born October 1, 1910, in Rowena, Texas. When Jesus is first brought before Pontius Pilate, Pilate beholds his bloody, bruised condition and asks members of the Sanhedrin (the high council of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem) if they always beat prisoners prior to trial.

They captivated the attention of the American press and its readership during what is sometimes referred to as the public enemy era between 1931 and 1935, a period which led to the formation of the F.B.I. (Emmerich mentions a similar event in chapter 13.). Their exploits, along with those of other criminals such as John Dillinger and Ma Barker, were notorious across the nation. The movie depicts some Jews as opposing the absence of the Sanhedrin's quorum, thereby challenging the legality of the trial and intimating that Jesus was not being treated fairly by Jewish leadership. Bonnie and Clyde (Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow) were famous bank robbers who traveled the southwestern United States during the Great Depression, often with various members of the Barrow gang. (Emmerich reports that he "fled as if a thousand furies were at his heel" and later mentions Satan standing at his side to drive him to despair, chapter 14.). Acts states that his body also fell, causing him to burst open and spill out his bowels.

Matthew reports that Judas committed suicide by strangulation, presumed to be from hanging. Judas is tormented by "children" whose morphing facial features suggest they are demons, driving him to suicide. (Taken from Anne Catherine Emmerich, The Dolorous Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, chapter 3.). A Jewish Temple guard, sent to apprehend Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, drops him from a small bridge suspended from a chain.

(In Luke 4:13, it is said that the Devil left Jesus "for a time", and many theologians reason that Satan's moment was in the Garden, but this encounter is not recorded in the Gospel.). During Jesus' distress in the Garden of Gethsemane, Satan is shown speaking to him. Reverend William Fulco - translated script into Latin and reconstructed Aramaic. Francesco Frigeri - production designer.

Caleb Deschanel - director of photography. Benedict Fitzgerald - co-screenwriter. Mel Gibson - director, co-producer, co-screenwriter. Rosalinda Celentano - Satan.

Mattia Sbragia - Caiphas. Hristo Naumov Shopov - Pontius Pilate. Monica Bellucci - Mary Magdalene. Maia Morgenstern - Mary, the mother of Jesus.

Jim Caviezel - Jesus, the Christ.