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   The thirteenth disciple   
   After months of hype,   
   Mel's banking on a hit   
      
   By CORKY SIEMASZKO   
   DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER   
      
   Mel Gibson directs Jim Caviezel in 'The Passion.'   
      
   Mel Gibson is convinced that "The Passion of the Christ" is going to   
   be a hit. On the eve of the Ash Wednesday opening of his much-hyped   
   movie about the Crucifixion, Gibson predicted that all the controversy   
   surrounding the flick would pay off handsomely at the box office.   
      
   "There's never been anything like this before," Gibson tells Fox-TV's   
   Bill O'Reilly on "The O'Reilly Factor," airing tonight at 8. "It's the   
   curiosity factor more than anything. They're saying, what is this   
   about? You know, because a lot of people, they have no notion."   
      
   "The Passion" opens at dozens of movie theaters in New York tomorrow   
   and at more than 2,000 cinemas nationwide.   
      
   The controversy was stoked by Jewish leaders who accused Gibson of   
   putting the onus for Jesus' death on Jews rather than the Romans, who   
   actually nailed Christ to the Cross.   
      
   Last night, Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) attended an early   
   premiere of the film at the Jersey Gardens Cineplex in Edison, N.J. He   
   said he was "left numb" by the film's portrayal of Jews.   
      
   "I have no doubt that this is capable of causing violence against   
   Jews," Hikind said.   
      
   But Gibson insisted he was "evenhanded" and said he was faithful to   
   the Gospels, which in essence say that Jews set Jesus up and the   
   Romans did him in.   
      
   "They were brutal," Gibson said of the Roman soldiers who marched   
   Jesus up Golgotha. "They were more afraid of their own commanding   
   officers than they were of the enemy."   
      
   Gibson also denied Jewish accusations that he let Pontius Pilate off   
   the hook for Jesus' execution.   
      
   "He actually condemned a man to death who ... he thought was   
   innocent," he said. "He's a monster."   
      
   But in the movie, Pilate repeatedly refuses to order Jesus' execution   
   and relents only under pressure from the Jewish high priest Caiaphas   
   and his Pharisee followers.   
      
   Also, Pilate's wife, Claudia, is openly sympathetic to the Virgin Mary   
   and gives her the towel with which she sops up Jesus' blood after He   
   endures a stomach-churning flogging that is the sadistic centerpiece   
   of the ultraviolent movie.   
      
   Gibson calls Simon of Cyrene, a Jew who is ordered by the Romans to   
   help Christ heft the Cross up the hill, a "true hero."   
      
   But Simon is also one of the few Jews in the movie who shows Jesus any   
   mercy. Most are part of a mob that hurls stones and spits on Jesus and   
   are so violent that Roman soldiers have to keep them from attacking   
   Christ.   
      
      
      
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