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Hornswaggle is an alternate spelling of hornswoggle, an archaic word that means to bamboozle or hoodwink. I take my pronunciation from the late Harvey Korman in "Blazing Saddles" -- "I want rustlers, cutthroats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, conmen, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswagglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass kickers, shit kickers and Methodists!" |
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Thursday, February 19, 2004So I saw my first trailer for Mel Gibson's much talked about "The Passion of the Christ" on TV today. Here's what strikes me. Gibson goes to such great lengths to ensure this film's authenticity that all the characters speak only Aramaic and Latin, yet the guy he has playing Jesus looks like John Corbett from "Northern Exposure"?(And also "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", "Sex and the City" and untold Chevy, Ford or Dodge truck commercials.) Hate to break it to you Mel, but people in the Middle East just don't look like that. Now, I'm no expert. I'm just going from what I see on CNN but, again, hair tends to be black, skin tends to be brown, eyes tend to be brown ... You get the idea. I believe it was the spoken word artist, Ice Cube, who said: "Go to church but they tease us/Wit' a picture of a blue-eyed Jesus." This is just one more illustration, by the by, of the inherent problems with the Evangelical Christians of the world who take the Bible and the story of Christ completely at face value. "You see, we believe down to the last detail in the Gospels regarding our lord and savior Jesus Christ, to the point of irrationality and the repudiation of science. Except for one detail. When we picture what Jesus looks like, we project a Western ethnicity onto him. We're going for kind of a Gregory Peck look. Ooh! No wait. Cary Grant. Now that's a handsome man. And an upright Christian to boot!" I wonder if they'd feel the way they do about Jesus if they pictured him looking like, say, Osama bin Laden. .: posted by hornswaggler 12:41 PM| |
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