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Originally Posted by GrantDawg
I think you're wrong about the money (some theatres here have already been bought out for the first three weeks), but I don't think his main pont is making money. He wanted the movie to be as close to the first century as possible, and that means Aramaic (not arabic by the way). It was the language (along with the language of trade, Greek) of first century Palestine.
This is a prestege picture, not a "blockbuster" big budget film.
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Thank you, GD. You said everything I was going to (that Gibson was going for realism), and that the language is Aramaic, which no doubt does influence the Arabic language as many of the dialects of the area would evenutally, but was not really an "ancient Arabic" language.
CR