The Passion of the Maccabees

Mel Gibson wants to make a movie about the Maccabeeans. From The Philadelphia Inquirer:

"The Maccabee family stood up, and they made war, they stuck by their guns, and they came out winning," he said. "It's like a western."

Yeah. Dave Kopel at National Review is already calling it "the Jewish war of independence against Syria." I wonder if the Indians were upset after Pocahontas came out? (Mel Gibson was in that movie, too.)

Oh, well. He's made bad movies set in the 1970's (We Were Soldiers), the 1870's (Maverick), the 1770's (The Patriot), the 1670's (Hamlet) and the 1570's (the aformentioned Pocahontas). So, leaving aside the Passion debate, and the fact that Maverick was actually kinda alright, and had some cool stuff but that was usually in scenes with James Garner, this whole Jewish history as a John Wayne movie thing ... well, it keeps giving me flashbacks to that scene in the HBO movie about Pancho Villa where Alan Arkin wields a jeep-mounted machine gun so like Mad Max's ...

I need to lie down now, or at least go back to talking about politics.

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