Ed Farhat

In 2003, he passed away, leaving behind his legacy as a trailbazer for the oncoming hardcore movement, a top national draw, and as one of the most respected athletes in the history of the Detroit area. 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. Sheik wrestled into his 70s, but he also found the time to train future stars such as his nephew Sabu, Rob Van Dam and Scott Steiner. Jim Caviezel admitted that he was struck in the back accidentally during the scourging sequence, leaving a significant scar on his back. Outside of his in-ring role, he took control of the Detroit promotion, pushing himself on top as the United States Champion until the promotion died in the early 1980s. This is the same age Christ is said to have been upon his crucifixion. He had major feuds with the likes of Bobo Brazil, Abdullah the Butcher, Pampero Firpo, Mark Lewin, Tiger Jeet Singh, Terry Funk and Fred Blassie. Jim Caviezel also bears the initials "JC." When Gibson first requested Caviezel to portray Christ in early 2002, Caviezel, was 33 years of age.

His favorite haunts in North America were Detroit, Los Angeles, and Toronto. [2] (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001029/bio) and [3] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3209223.stm). The character of the madman from Syria had universal appeal, and the Sheik was a top drawing heel all over the country and in Japan. 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. He was an explosive, crazy heel and to some people, the embodiment of insanity and cruelty. The film has also been criticized by several fundamentalist Protestant groups for its Catholic and Ecumenist overtones. His wild facial expressions and his ability to roll back his eyes, added to his violent repertoire, frightened fans and made them hate him. While partially due to graphic violence portrayed in the film, of more concern is the purported anti-semitic overtones of the film.

While many wrestlers of the era had to start all over again when they entered a new territory, the Sheik's reputation preceded him. This movie is considered extremely controversial by both religious and atheistic groups. Fans also feared The Sheik. Its release in 950 theaters in North America averaged only some 10 viewers per showing. Very few people ever got up from the fireball, not even André the Giant could go on after being hit by the Sheik's fireball during a match at the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, which led to a Sheik victory over the giant legend in 1974, 15 years before Hulk Hogan supposedly broke André's winning streak at WrestleMania III. The recut version's showing in theaters was not successful. In desperation, he would light the fireball and toss it into the face of his opponent. 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.

Concealed pencils were also common; however, his most feared tactic was his use of fireballs. 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. He would often lock on a hold that is normally mundane but not let go, forcing the opponent to give in. Gibson's stated aim was to make the film more family-friendly. The Sheik had many strange habits. Some five or six minutes of the original version were cut in order to make the film less violent. He did not speak at all on camera, relying on his flamboyant managers like Abdullah Farouk and later Eddy Creechman to get his message across. In March of 2005, Gibson released a slightly edited version of the film, titled The Passion Recut, to the theaters.

He was a star football player in high school and served his country in World War II before he became "The Sheik of Araby" or later, just "The Sheik." His calling card was his tendency for violence and foreign weapons, pencils being his favorite. (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. Edward Farhat was born to a family of Lebanese immigrants in Michigan. 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. Edward George Farhat (June 11, 1924–January 18, 2003) was a professional wrestler best known as The Sheik (or The Original Sheik to distinguish him from the wrestler the Iron Sheik of the 1980s). 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). He also won the PWI Most Hated Wrestler Award in 1972. (Where possible, the source of these details is indicated in parentheses after the entry.).

Pro Wrestling Illustrated (PWI) ranked him #368 of the 500 best singles wrestlers during the "PWI Years" in 2003. 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. 1-Time NWA Texas Heavyweight Title. Crew:. 1-Time NWA International Heavyweight Title. Cast:. 1-Time NWA Hawaii Heavyweight Title. The film's principal cast and crew are as follows:.

1-Time WWA Martial Arts Title.
. 2-Time ICW United States Heavyweight Title. 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. 1-Time United National Heavyweight Title (Tokyo). 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. 1-Time NWA Americas Heavyweight Title. 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.

3-Time United States Heavyweight Title (Toronto). He also co-wrote the screenplay. 12-Time United States Heavyweight Title (Detroit). 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. Movie(s): I Like to Hurt People. Main article: Making of The Passion of the Christ. Finishing/Signature Move(s): Camel Clutch, Fireball, Hidden pencil. According to Rottentomatoes.com the same number of critics praised the film as hated it.

Previous Manager(s): The Princess, Abdullah Farouk, Eddy Creechman. Critics were polarized over the film. Previous Identities: The Sheik of Araby. 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. Professional Debut: 1950. Taking $370m in the US, it became the highest-grossing R-rated film ever made, and the 9th highest all-time domestic gross. Billed from: The Syrian Desert. 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.

Hometown: Lansing, Michigan. The film's dialogue is in Latin and in a reconstructed Aramaic. Obituary Date: January 18, 2003 (heart failure). Mel Gibson financed and directed this film adaptation of the traditional Passion play, which is a Christian tradition during the season of Lent. Birthday: June 11, 1924. The Passion of the Christ (2004) is an independent film about the last twelve hours of the life of Jesus Christ. Weight: 247 lbs. 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 ...".

Height: 5'11. The table is higher than is normal, and Mary remarks that it (the table) would never catch on. Jesus is shown at home with Mary, showing her the new table that he had built. Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey, welcomed with palm leaves by the crowds. Jesus told Peter to his face, "Three times you will deny me.".

The curtain in the temple was ripped after the crucifixion. The words of Jesus on the cross, entrusting Mary to an apostle's care (see John 19:26-27). 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. The other said that he and his fellow criminal deserved to die, but Jesus was not worthy of death.

One of the criminals mocked Jesus. Jesus was crucified alongside two criminals. The crucifixion took place on the top of a hill. The man who carried the cross for Jesus was named Simon, as noted in all three Synoptic Gospels.

(It is also possible that Judas impaled himself, and that his entrails consequently spilled out onto the field.). Judas went to the center of the field, and fell head first on to the ground and his body burst open. 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. This is in keeping with the description of the fate of Judas found in the Gospel according to Matthew (Matthew 27:5).

Judas commits suicide by hanging himself from a tree. (Matthew 27:4-5). Judas tries to return the blood money to the Jewish leaders. Pilate offers the crowd a choice: release Jesus, or release another condemned prisoner in Jesus's place.

Pilate finds no "cause" to put Jesus to death. The Gospels unmistakably hint at this. Pilate is hesitant to condemn Jesus to death. The leaders bring Jesus to Pilate for punishment.

They spit in his face and beat him. Jewish leaders accuse Jesus of violating their religious tradition. Both Matthew and Mark relate this. 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.

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). Soldiers come to arrest Jesus there. Judas identifies Jesus to the soldiers with a kiss. Judas receives 30 pieces of silver from the Jewish leaders for betraying Jesus's whereabouts.

Jesus chides them for falling asleep instead. Jesus asks his three chief followers, Peter, James and John to "watch" (i.e., stay awake) while he prays. Jesus prays in the Garden of Gethsemane. 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.

The final scene of the movie shows Jesus leaving the tomb after the Resurrection. In the Gospels it is only reported that the curtain at the holy of holies was split. The earthquake causes a huge fissure to split the Temple down the center. 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.

Instead of a normal mother and child you have an androgynous figure holding a 40-year-old 'baby' with hair on his back. What is more tender and beautiful than a mother and a child? So the Devil takes that and distorts it just a little bit. 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. The devil is shown carrying an "Ugly Baby" during Christ's flogging.

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.". The crucified criminal who mocked Jesus was shown being pecked at mercilessly by a raven. Emmerich, chapter 43, and the apocryphal "Acts of Pilate," also known as the "Gospel of Nicodemus".). (Cf.

The names assigned to the thieves crucified with Christ, Dismas and Gesmas (also Gestas), are traditional but are not given in Scripture. (Reportedly a mistake in the filming that Gibson decided "looked good".). 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. After Jesus is nailed to the cross but before it has been raised, Roman soldiers flip the cross and Jesus over.

(Emmerich chapter 38.). 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. 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.). Also, Mary goes to Jesus so that she may comfort Him.

While travelling along the Via Dolorosa, Jesus falls under the weight of the cross three times. (Emmerich, chapter 34, which also includes her offering Jesus a drink.). This event does not appear in any Bible narrative, but is a depiction of the Roman Catholic tradition of Veronica's Veil. Along the Via Dolorosa, the image of Jesus' face is transferred to a cloth given to him by a woman.

Emmerich, chapter 36.). (Cf. 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. 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.

Along the Via Dolorosa, Jesus is repeatedly rope whipped by a trailing Roman soldier. (Emmerich, chapter 23.). After the scourging, Mary wipes up the blood of Jesus with towels provided by Pilate's wife. (See flagellation.).

The Gospels state only that he was scourged. 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. The gospel of Matthew only mentions a message from Pilate's wife delivered while Pilate is hearing the case.). Emmerich, chapter 19.

(Cf. 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. 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. 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.

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. Herod Antipas is portrayed as a mincing, lisping, effeminate homosexual, complete with a "boy-toy". (Emmerich, chapter 17.). 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.

(Emmerich mentions a similar event in chapter 13.). 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. (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.