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Jon Voight—Pope John Paul II
Born in Yonkers, New York in , Voight first gained widespread attention and received a Golden Globe Award for his role in the controversial movie "Midnight Cowboy," which also starred Dustin Hoffman. In he won the best actor Oscar Award for his performance in the film "Coming Home," in which he played a conflicted Vietnam veteran. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for his performances in the films "Midnight Cowboy", "Runaway Train", and, most recently, "Ali," in which he played famed sports announcer Howard Cosell.
Voight has also starred in "National Treasure," "Pearl Harbor," "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider," "Mission Impossible," "Varsity Blues," "Enemy of the State," "Anaconda," "The General," "The Odessa File," "Deliverance," "The Rainmaker" and "The Champ." His television credits include the movies "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" and "Uprising," and the mini-series "Jack and The Beanstalk: The Real Story" and "Return t
"Voight is quite extraordinary. Besides doing a spot-on impersonation of Pope John Paul's public persona, he ages most convincingly It's a heart wrenching portrayal. Pope Benedict XVI attended the world premiere screening and at the conclusion blessed the miniseries &#; the ultimate endorsement!" &#;Harry Forbes, Catholic News Service
"Watching this film has renewed in me a sense of profound gratitude to God for having given the Church and the world a Pope of such an exalted human and spiritual nature." &#;Pope Benedict XVI
Although shot on a lavish scale in Italy, Poland and elsewhere, 'Pope John Paul II' succeeds on intimate terms even when troops are marching or huge crowds are filling St. Peter's Square, and Elwes and Voight are largely responsible. The movie is honestly and actually about something It's the ability to instill joy in human hearts, and the film not only celebrates it but, in its finest moments, even possesses it."&#;The Washington Post
"Writer-director John Kent Harrison wisely finds a narrative focus as the pope stares down the unraveling Soviets hoping to help free his native Poland. More than anything, Voight's performanc
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By Thomas Mirus and James Majewski ( bio - articles - email ) | May 18, | In Criteria: The Catholic Film Podcast
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In honor of Pope St. John Paul the Great’s birthday, James and Thomas discuss the film about his life starring Cary Elwes as the young Karol Wojtyla and Jon Voight as Pope John Paul II. One of the strengths of the film, made within a few months of the saint’s death, is its portrayal of John Paul II’s Polishness and how it influenced him as a world leader. Other aspects of the film are outdated in light of what we know today, such as its portrayal of the Vatican and the Curia as a group of men working together in harmony for the good of souls.
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Take the rather unusual Madonna of Czestochowa procession led by the future Holy Father, then Archbishop Wojtyla, during a period when the Soviet authorities in Poland had forbidden the public exhibition of religious images. This regulation ended the longstanding tradition of bearing the framed image of the Madonna of Czestochowa through the streets of Krakow with much pageantry and ceremony.
As told in the film, Wojtyla, contemplating this dilemma, reflected that the authorities had not banned religious processions without sacred images, and proceeded to organize a full-blown Madonna of Czestochowa procession with all the usual pageantry, with one notable exception &#; the frame that traditionally held the Czestochowa image was empty. Though the Communist authorities resentfully recognized what that empty frame represented, the image of the Madonna was present only to the eyes of faith.
That combination of boldness, imagination, showmanship and unwavering faith was utterly characteristic of the thinking and style of the man who became Pope John Paul II. It&#;s the same approach we see him employ later in his famous run-in with Communist authorities ove
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