The bloody video comes from Kubrick's The Shining; if you are going to steal footage, steal from the best. The (George Bush Jr.) twins are from some googled image I modified. The music comes from the movie and a few other things I modified. The "inspiration" for this was "How'd You Come To Orakulate So Good?" in Corrected Works, linked to from here.
It's been one of my favorite loops to listen to when I'm trying to concentrate.
I went back and improved the video I mentioned earlier enough to show it here. The yellow tint makes a difference for me; the color in the original was too cold and creepy, like a fresh knife wound.
In Mel Gibson's World, pain is love. And he loves seeing Jesus in pain.
I think this was doomed from the beginning. I wanted to show the unrelenting nature of Mel's blood lust, so I sped through a lot of quantity, and jerky samples are irritating to watch. But I wasn't going to pick through his footage and build a different story, and couldn't take a slow, close look without getting knee-deep in his sadistic glee.
A lot of (most?) ideas sound better than they turn out. E.g., another movie idea I tested, of It's a Wonderful Life at 32x speed, did not feel at all like a life flashing before your eyes...
I watched Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ on DVD; I wanted to see if it was as bad as I'd heard. I played it at 8x normal speed, so I could pick up its essence and avoid the boring dialog.
At any rate, even though the actor playing Jesus looks alright (see Ugly Jesus Test), the movie itself is ugly, with a sadistic palette. And the movie goes nowhere: Jesus gets flogged and beaten until they nail him to the cross. That's it.
Along the way, the Jewish religious types look squeamish and guilty; Pontius Pilate looks reasonable and sad, a colonial technocrat forced to carry out this torture-fest; all the women are the image of suffering when they're not mopping up blood -- it seems like 20% of the movie is of Mary's face, soaking up Jesus' pain like a beautiful sponge.
Mel is proud to be an old-school right-wing Catholic; everyone has their place, and anyone who disagrees can burn in hell.
Beyond that, the apparent message is: unlike the million other torturings inflicted across human history, Jesus' meant something. (For one thing, it meant Mel could torture him in a movie and make millions.) I hate to think what happened to Mel in his formative years, and I hate the way he promotes such a brutally shallow vision of life.
I made a little video from samples of the movie, but didn't like its looks (or the fact that it, like its source, went nowhere but through the whip). I might use some in another video, but will have to tint it so it doesn't poison the rest.
Update: The tinted video is here.