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The Jesuit Scholar Who Translated ‘The Passion’
Thursday, March 4th, 2004
Obscured by the furor surrounding Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the
Christ” is one relatively mundane bit of trivia: Last week’s debut
marked the widest release ever of a subtitled film in North America. …
“I got a call while I was in Jerusalem: ‘Hey, Padre, It’s Mel, I
got a job for you,’” Fulco said. “I said, `Mel who?’ We talked for
about an hour. He told me about the project, and I couldn’t pass it
up.”
In 2002, Gibson gave Fulco the script written by Benedict
Fitzgerald, mostly derived from the Gospels, and asked Fulco to
translate it into Aramaic , Hebrew and Latin. Fulco later translated
the script back into English subtitles.
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