Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Is Anyone Playing The "Passion Of The Christ" Trailer?

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Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 01-10-2004, 01:43 PM:

We received a couple of these 45 second teasers, but haven't been instructed to put them on anything yet. It'll be interesting to see if we ever will with all the controversy surrounding the film.

Has anyone else added this trailer to their lineup on anything?

BTW, if you're curious, you can view the trailer online at:
http://www.passionofthechrist.com/

Posted by David Graham Rose (Member # 1450) on 01-10-2004, 03:09 PM:

Greetings All from Cambridge

Being a research facility as opposed to a commercial cinema we do not play trailers, unless we are asked to look at various aspects of QC of the prints. In short, no, we are not playing the trailers.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-10-2004, 03:53 PM:

Greetings from Denver!

I will try to contribute as much to the discussion as David did:

I am not currently working in the cinema. So no, I am not playing the trailer.

Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 01-10-2004, 04:02 PM:

I have the trailer but -- just like you -- I'm not running it until I know that the movie is booked.

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 01-10-2004, 04:12 PM:

It's not long enough to even count as a trailer. In fact it is so short it reminds me of rolling stock, so no I am not playing the trailer.

Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 01-10-2004, 04:39 PM:

How did "rolling stock" get its name?

Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 01-10-2004, 08:57 PM:

I never heard the term before coming here but I don't ordinarily work at regular theatres. Rolling because it's film rolling through the projector but is there non-rolling stock it must be differentiated from?

Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 01-10-2004, 09:50 PM:

Slides, perhaps?

But why "stock"? If they mean "film stock," it wouldn't really apply to slides, as I've never heard anyone refer to a dupe transparancy as "stock."

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 01-10-2004, 10:33 PM:

The only time I have ever heard the term "rolling stock" was back at the UA Greenwood when we experimented with running "slides" on film instead of real slides (this was before we had any slide projectors). The still ads would do cross fades and wipes into eachother, but no real motion. Later when we began putting ads and PSAs (public service announcements) before the trailers, we called them ads and PSA's.

Posted by Aaron Garman (Member # 1653) on 01-10-2004, 10:45 PM:

We have it running on our copy of Last Samurai and have been instructed to take Big Fish off of all prints and replace it with "The Passion". Considering we are a mile or so from Notre Dame, I sure hope we get the film. But something tells me the junky theater across town will get it because they get almost all the limited releases. Doh!

AJG

Posted by Micheal Turlock (Member # 1892) on 01-11-2004, 12:19 AM:

I am playing "The Passion of the Christ" teaser on "Cold Mountain". I have not yet had a complaint - it's been playing over a week. I have heard people talking about it finally getting too see what the entertainment tonight people are always talking about. I am excitded to see this film too.

Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 01-11-2004, 12:22 AM:

You need to start pestering the booker about it. We were told to just replace big fish on Cold mountain with it. I might be mistaken but isn't the whole movie spoken in the hebrew language. Plenty of reading if so.

Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 01-11-2004, 01:07 AM:

Not exactly Hebrew, but Aramaic which was a closely related language. Aramaic widely replaced Hebrew as the language spoken by the common people in the last centuries BC while Hebrew continued to be spoken more by the religious establishment and the upper class. Jesus and the disciples are believed to have spoken Aramaic. And then, of course, there will be Latin for the bad guys.
Initially there was talk of the movie not being subtitled. Are they still going to do it this way?

Posted by Peter Kerchinsky (Member # 1098) on 01-11-2004, 04:34 AM:

Yes, we are playing the "teaser" trailer on several screens at our theatre. No complaints etc yet.

Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 01-11-2004, 12:58 PM:

We only play trailers for movies we are going to show, and after talking to the distrib this week, looks like we aren't.

It appears they are going wide release on it (2000-2500 prints) which seems to me they are counting on a big opening weekend before the fear of subtitles makes everyone flee the multiplex.

The film is in Aramaic, Latin and Greek. Originally Mel said it would be unsubtitled, but the preview prints he was showing around to try and manufacture a reverse Last Temptation controversy were subtitled. I assume with 2000 prints, they're going with subtitles.

Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 01-11-2004, 01:06 PM:

The Passion of the Christ trailer may be attached to Monster. Newmarket Films is handling those 2 titles in the US.

The AMC Hamilton just opened Monster on its "Oscar Bait" run; the first trailer in the trailer pack is The Passion of the Christ.

Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 01-11-2004, 02:05 PM:

I haven't seen the film but I think this would be a good one to have an overture at the opening. Get everyone in the mood. I've suggested it to Newmarket.

Posted by Rich Ferrando (Member # 2056) on 01-11-2004, 02:15 PM:

Yes, the "Passion of Christ" trailer is attached to "Monster."

We opened "Monster" this past week, but we removed the "Passion" trailer because we aren't getting the film.

Posted by Carl Martin (Member # 1146) on 01-12-2004, 01:08 AM:

it wasn't attached to either print of monster we got, though they had both "been around the block". i think we put passion on there anyways though.

carl

Posted by Matthew Peters (Member # 1495) on 01-12-2004, 02:00 AM:

We are playing the trailer like Micheal Turlock on cold mountain, and on some other films – I think also on Japanese story.

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 01-12-2004, 07:00 PM:

I don't know. Maybe I'm missing something. But does anyone else think the title of this film is a little odd, smacking of bad grammar? I thought the word "Christ" was a personal pronoun. Why put "the" in front to turn the name into a object-based noun?

On top of that, the phrasing "The Passion of the Christ" is making me try to remember some goofy phrase I heard on South Park or even in the LOTR movies. To hear Gollum say blah of the Smeagol would make more sense.

Anyway, Icon should have just left the title simply as "The Passion". It would fit on changeable copy marquees a lot better.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 01-12-2004, 07:05 PM:

I think "The Christ" is a title, not a name.

I remember Ben-Hur was subtitled "A Tale of the Christ," and, Jesus is referred to often as "Jesus the Christ." I'm sure there are plenty of people here who can explain it fully, but hopefully they'll tread lightly so as not to veer into the forbidden territory of religion.

Posted by Rich Ferrando (Member # 2056) on 01-12-2004, 08:53 PM:

As quoted from the Mirriam Webster Dictionary:

Christ
Pronunciation: 'krIst
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English Crist, from Old English, from Latin Christus, from Greek Christos, literally, anointed, from chriein
Date: before 12th century
1 : MESSIAH
2 : JESUS
3 : an ideal type of humanity
4 Christian Science : the ideal truth that comes as a divine manifestation of God to destroy incarnate error

So, essentially, saying "The Christ" is synonymous with "The Messiah." So, religions other than Christianity could theoretically use the term "Christ" to decribe their own Messiah, be it Jesus or not.

Posted by Kyle Spillane (Member # 2152) on 01-14-2004, 10:38 AM:

Meanwhile... back on topic [Roll Eyes]

I originally played Passion with Last Samurai. Recently I our print of Calendar Girls came with no trailer information. So I decided to be clever and since most of the people in our small mid-western town are fairly religous I put both Passion and the Gospel of John on it.

The people haven't stopped calling asking if we're going to get it.

Posted by Bill Gabel (Member # 1105) on 01-20-2004, 02:54 PM:

The film is subtitled and runs 120 minutes without credits. I just finished a press screening here in NYC. A finished print was not ready for this show.