the feeling. we didn t want to tell people what to think or how to feel. we just wanted to present the story. so you felt it and would seek more. and all of those things you mentioned. that moment there, where finally the disciples have realized now he is the son of god. they have been following a leader at this point who may have been the next king david to fight the romans. that shows their weakness, though, they all ran when he was arrested. peter did deny him three times. that is all included in the movie. but you did feel, part of the mini series was in the movie. but it is mostly new material built around it. yeah, so as mark mentioned we would do these screenings every week in morocco. we put the assemblies up and invited the cast and crew to come in when we were making the bible series. and as the jesus narrative started to unfold and we saw how
moment in my life. because we encounter jesus. and hollywood is not going to make big bucks just off just by putting jesus on the screen. they re going to make big bucks by putting jesus on the screen when there is faith behind it. that is why the passion worked. that is why this works. and i thank you, mark and roma, for doing that. it is not just jesus, it is people believing that he is who he said he was. what are your thoughts? my jesus moment was roma and mark had a screening with 800 hispanics, when he started multiplying the loaves, and for the first time ever, i saw him cry. because it is a universal story of the love of god and his provision for everybody. what was the reaction in the room? it was like a silent hurry of
his heart. father morris will argue with me in a minute, right? no, you agree with me? but you and this is what you do in the movie. you take big biblical stories, jesus walking on water. jesus saying to peter, i ll make you a fisher of men. the last supper. the crucifixion. you go through. you don t tell the whole story but you told snippets and put it altogether. how did this decision-making process come about? just so you know we were only slightly into the series of making the bible series. and roma said mark, this should be a big movie. this should be seen in community on the big screen. and we decided okay. had no idea how we would get it distributed. we started making it. and we knew the responsibility, sean, of that. we had done about 30 versions over a year just trying to get
was like a spiritual cleaning had gone on ahead. and we certainly ahad felt all through the project that there was a spiritual cleaning. because i think the film is very important, particularly for our new generation that they would know and understand jesus. that they would have an opportunity to see what an amazing man he was and how much god loved us that he sent us jesus. let me ask this, the clip that we just showed. and we ll get father morris is in the audience and will probably correct me if i m wrong. i actually went to a seminar years past, and that sequence, where peter says, you re the son of god. the catholic church takes this peter, the rock, the pope, and i always thought there was a more spiritual element to that where he knew that he was the son of god because it was revealed to
he was human, like us. it causes us to ask the questions and investigate. you said, roma, who didn t know god, who was not a believer who really raise questions on who jesus was. and it raises so many important questions. one thing i would add, it is not preaching. he is telling the story and if people are impacted by it. they re impacted by it. caro carol? i believe that this film has the potential to really reach the secular as well as the christian audience. and that for christians it tells us about it reminds us that jesus, as he was leaving the earth he said that greater works than these will we do. and i believe in america sometimes and in parts of the world we act as if we are powerless. and we re not supposed to be powerless. one of us is supposed to be able to put 10,000 to flight. and we ve lost sight of that. and the last thing i want to say is sean, we re waiting for you