Michael Martin
Screenwriter
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These are probably the two things he didn't take liberties with. Roman scourgings were so brutal that it wasn't unknown for prisoners to die from them before ever being crucified. And the gospel accounts have Mary at the cross. (Whether you take that as fact or not is beside the point; the poster said Gibson took liberties with the story and Mary at the cross is firmly in the biblical tradition.)