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Satan tried to subvert The Passion

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Crazy shit, man
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. ? John Debney is used to writing movie scores for comedies like "Liar, Liar" and "Bruce Almighty," but he admits that composing the score for Mel Gibson's powerful movie "The Passion of the Christ" was the most difficult assignment of his life.

For it turned out to be a battle between good and evil that he had never experienced before in some 20 years in Hollywood.

"I don't think I will ever be given the opportunity to write again for a movie as powerful as this one," he said during a recent media interview in Beverly Hills.

"I was stretched every which way but loose," Debney said. "I was stretched by Mel Gibson. I was stretched by the Guy Upstairs and also I was stretched by the guy downstairs. What it did was completely strengthen my faith and I have realized something very interesting. I had never before subscribed to the idea that maybe Satan is a real person, but I can attest that he was in my room a lot and I know that he hit everyone on this production."

Debney said that the battle he felt with Satan as he wrote the music became "really personal between us."

He went on to say, "I had all these computers and synthesizers in my studio and the hard drives would go down and the digital picture that lives on the computer with the music would just freeze on his [Satan's] face. Then the volume would go to ten and it would happen all the time.

"The first time it happened, it scared me," Debney said. "Once I got over the initial shock of that, I learned to work around it and learned to reboot the computers and so I would start talking to him.

"There was one day when I had been on the movie for about four months when it really became bad that day and a lot of things that were causing doubt in me and I had had enough. The computers froze for about the tenth time that day and it was about nine o'clock at night and so I got really mad, and I told Satan to manifest himself and I said, 'Let's go out into the parking lot and let's go.' It was a sea change in me. I knew that this was war. I am not a physical person, but I was really angry on this occasion.

"I am up on the second floor, and on the bottom floor of my building there are therapists, and they see patients until midnight, and their windows are right at the parking lot, and I was coming down the stairs, and I had had it. I had booted everything down and saved it and I was walking down the stairs and I was verbalizing and saying to Satan, 'Manifest yourself right now.' As I am walking out and saying, 'Come on, let's go now,' I looked over and I could see someone looking at me and I realized how silly I must have looked. He didn't manifest himself, but I wished he would have. It changed for me after that."
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want to know what's scarier than that? The movie made over $117 million dollars opening weekend. It's like fucking star wars for fundies.
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Hmmm, religion as a cash cow. Not that the idea's new, but maybe if they do it enough the fundies will kill themselves trying to stamp out their own religion or something. :wink:
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So, somebody's been able to prove that Windows is the tool of the devil, then? :D
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everyone knows that the windows logo can be broken down systematically by kabbalistic numerology to show that it's the sign of teh d3vil!
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Col. Crackpot wrote:want to know what's scarier than that? The movie made over $117 million dollars opening weekend. It's like fucking star wars for fundies.
LOL!

Someone should make a movie that glorifies the Greek or Egyptian gods and dismisses Christianity as a joke. Mainly becasue I like to annoy fundies.
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Gandalf wrote:
Col. Crackpot wrote:want to know what's scarier than that? The movie made over $117 million dollars opening weekend. It's like fucking star wars for fundies.
LOL!

Someone should make a movie that glorifies the Greek or Egyptian gods and dismisses Christianity as a joke. Mainly becasue I like to annoy fundies.
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Every time I read something like this, it makes me think of George Carlin's rant about angels...
George Carlin wrote:What's all this shit about angels? Have you heard this? Three out of four people belive in angels! Are you fucking stupid?! Has everybody lost their mind? You know what I think it is? I think it's a massive, collective, psychotic chemical flashback for all the drugs smoked, swallowed, shot, and obsorbed rectally by all Americans from 1960 to 1990. 30 years of street drugs will get you some fucking angels my friend! What about goblins, huh? Doesn't anybody believe in goblins? You never hear about this...except on Halloween and then it's all negative shit. And what about zombies? You never hear from zombies! That's the trouble with zombies, they're unreliable! I say if you're going to go for the Angel bullshit you might as well go for the zombie package as well.
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Near-death experiences are like that too... if anyone's ever been revived after their heart stopped and said they saw crackling flames and some of their departed loved ones being turned on spits by pitchfork-wielding demons, I've never heard of it.

Incidently, this guy also scored End of Days.
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