<P> It's evil distorting what's good . What is more tender and beautiful than a mother and a child? So the Devil takes that and distorts it just a little bit . Instead of a normal mother and child you have an androgynous figure holding a 40 - year - old' baby' with hair on his back . 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 . </P> <P> Gibson originally announced that he would use two old languages without subtitles and rely on "filmic storytelling". Because the story of the Passion is so well - known, Gibson felt the need to avoid vernacular languages in order to surprise audiences: "I think it's almost counterproductive to say some of these things in a modern language . It makes you want to stand up and shout out the next line, like when you hear' To be or not to be' and you instinctively say to yourself,' That is the question ."' The script was written in English by Gibson and Benedict Fitzgerald, then translated by William Fulco, S.J., a professor at Loyola Marymount University, into Latin and reconstructed Aramaic . Gibson chose to use Latin instead of Greek, which was the lingua franca of that particular part of the Roman Empire at the time, since there is no source for the Koine Greek spoken in that region . The street Greek spoken in the ancient Levant region of Jesus' day is not the exact Greek language used in the Bible . Fulco sometimes incorporated deliberate errors in pronunciations and word endings when the characters were speaking a language unfamiliar to them, and some of the crude language used by the Roman soldiers was not translated in the subtitles . </P> <P> The film was produced independently and shot in Italy, primarily at Cinecittà Studios in Rome, in the old city of Matera, and in the ghost town of Craco (Basilicata). The estimated US $30 million production cost, plus an additional estimated $15 million in marketing costs, were fully borne by Gibson and his company, Icon Productions . According to the DVD Special Feature, Martin Scorsese had recently finished his film, Gangs of New York, and Gibson and his production designers constructed part of their set using Scorsese's set . This saved Gibson a lot of time and money . </P> <P> Gibson's film was released on Ash Wednesday, February 25, 2004 . It was rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for "sequences of graphic violence". Icon Entertainment distributed the theatrical version of the film, and 20th Century Fox distributed the VHS / DVD / Blu - ray version of the film . </P>

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