The New York Post’s Page Six ran an item this week predicting box-office doom for Mel Gibson’s Jesus movie, The Passion. The item quotes an unnamed source predicting the film will fail because it is too graphically violent (you can get an idea of what the source is talking about by going to the Ain’t It Cool News site and viewing the film’s incredible trailer. Also, Gibson apparently doesn’t want to subtitle the movie, which was filmed in Aramaic and Latin, the actual languages spoken in the Holy Land of Jesus’ day. The subtitle thing could be a problem, but I find it very hard to believe that violence would keep adult viewers away. Gibson has said he wanted to depict the actual physical agony involved in the crucifixion. Every single Christian I’ve talked to who has seen the trailer appeared deeply affected by it, and said they wanted to see the film more than ever. Within Christianity, the passion and crucifixion are so ever-present that it’s easy to forget how much pain the man Jesus endured. I went to mass last Sunday after seeing the Passion trailer, and I looked at the bloodless crucifix above the altar with different eyes. This movie is going to be an enormous hit — if only it overcomes the Hollywood whispering campaign against it, and gets released.