Pope John Paul II in popular culture

Films made about John Paul II include:

• Pope John Paul II (1984 film), directed by Herbert Wise, starring Albert Finney, Nigel Hawthorne, Alfred Burke, John McEnery, Patrick Stewart. The film debuted on CBS Television on Easter Sunday, 22 April 1984.{{cite news|last=Dudek|first=Duane|title=Finney's Rainbow: Verstile English actor adds Polish pope to his repertoire|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PohQAAAAIBAJ&pg=5653,4245243&dq=pope-john-paul+albert-finney&hl=en|access-date=26 May 2012|newspaper=Milwaukee Sentinel|date=20 April 1984}}
• Pope John Paul's Third Pilgrimage to His Homeland, a documentary on John Paul's June 1987 visit to Poland.
• {{ill|From a Far Country|it|3=Da un paese lontano|lt=From a Far Country}} (1981), directed by Krzysztof Zanussi.
• The Millennial Pope: John Paul II (1999) (TV), a documentary directed by Helen Whitney.
• The Papal Chase (2004), a documentary by Kenny Hotz.

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• Karol: A Man Who Became Pope,[http://www.popedocumentary.com/ FaithStreams Communities, Our Television Programs] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071210152202/http://www.popedocumentary.com/ |date=10 December 2007}} Polish title: Karol. Czlowiek, który zostal papiezem, 2005, a documentary, directed by Giacomo Battiato, based upon the book Stories of Karol: The Unknown Life of John Paul II by Gian Franco Svidercoschi.
• Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II (2005), a movie based on the life of Pope John Paul, shot on location in Rome and Lithuania, was broadcast on Thursday, 1 December 2005 (8:00–10:00 pm. ET/PT).
• Pope John Paul II (2005),[http://www.cbs.com/specials/pope/ CBS] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051208200703/http://www.cbs.com/specials/pope/ |date=8 December 2005 }}[http://imdb.com/title/tt0475999/ Pope John Paul II (2005) (TV)]{{Cite magazine| url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1134783,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051130052421/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1134783,00.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=30 November 2005 | magazine=Time | title=Television: Pope John Paul, Times II | date=27 November 2005 | access-date=30 April 2010 | first=James | last=Poniewozik}} a four-hour mini-series event based on the remarkable life of Pope John Paul II, shot on location in Kraków, Poland and in Italy, was broadcast Sunday, 4 December (9:00–11:00 pm, ET/PT) and Wednesday, 7 December (8:00–10:00 pm, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Cary Elwes portrays Karol Wojtyla in his adult years prior to being elected Pope on 16 October 1978, and Academy Award winner and multiple Golden Globe Award winner Jon Voight portrays him during his extraordinary 26 1/2-year reign that ended with his death on 2 April 2005. It was approved and blessed by Pope Benedict XVI.
• A Time Remembered – The Visit of Pope John Paul II to Ireland (2005), a film produced by Radio Telefís Éireann, the national broadcaster of Ireland, showing footage from the three-day visit in 1979.
• Karol: The Pope, The Man world debut was on Easter Sunday and Monday of 2006, and is the continuation of Karol: A Man Who Became Pope. It stars the same actors as the first mini-series.
• Credo: John Paul II a 2006 film containing highlights of John Paul II's pontificate, his spiritual heritage, his most significant meetings with heads of states, but also his contact with people from all over the world, from the day of his election to his funeral, with music by Andrea Bocelli.
• The Life of Pope John Paul II, a 4 chapter series by NBC News
• John Paul II – The Friend of All Humanity 60-minute cartoon available on multilingual DVD by Cavin Cooper Productions
• John Paul II, the Pope who made History – 5 DVD by Vatican Television Center (distr. by HDH Communications)
• John Paul II, this is my story – 1 DVD by Vatican Television Center (distr. by HDH Communications)
• John Paul II the Keys of the Kingdom – 1 DVD by Vatican Television Center (distr. by HDH Communications)
• The Pope's Toilet, a 2007 Uruguayan film located in Melo.
• In 1984, Pope John Paul made a cameo appearance on the Malayalam film Minimol Vathicanil. While child actor Shalini's character is visiting Rome, John Paul is seen taking her from the crowd and kissing her. The clip was included in the film.{{Cite web|title=Rediff On The Net, Movies: Child star Shalini makes it big as an adult|url=https://www.rediff.com/movies/1998/apr/09sh1.htm|access-date=2020-12-22|work=Rediff}}

• John Paul II is the only Pope who appears as a main character in an animated feature.{{Cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6054808.stm | publisher=BBC News | title=Cartoon tribute to Pope John Paul | date=16 October 2006 | access-date=30 April 2010}}

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• For a list of books written by and about John Paul II, please see Bibliography of Pope John Paul II

• The action-thriller novel, Red Rabbit (2002) by Tom Clancy, detailed a fictional KGB attempt to assassinate a newly elected Polish Pope, who, though only mentioned by the name "Karol", obviously refers to John Paul II.{{cite web |last1=Meagher |first1=L.D. |title=Review: Clancy's 'Red Rabbit' rotten |url=http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/books/09/24/review.clancy/ |website=CNN |access-date=28 July 2018}}
• Pope John Paul II's visit to Cuba in 1998, the first made by a Pope to this Caribbean island, was featured in Daína Chaviano's novel The Island of Eternal Love (Riverhead, 2008).{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}

• A comic book biography of Pope John Paul II, The Life of Pope John Paul II, was published by Marvel Comics in January 1983.{{Gcdb issue|id= 211273|title= The Life of Pope John Paul II #1 (January 1983)}} It was written by Steven Grant and illustrated by John Tartaglione.{{Cite web|title=John Tartaglione|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/tartaglione_john.htm|date= 5 July 2018|website=Lambiek Comiclopedia|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20200902031035/https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/tartaglione_john.htm|archivedate= 2 September 2020|url-status= live|df= dmy-all}} NBM Publishing released a comics biography of the pope in October 2006.{{Gcdb issue|id= 345386|title= The Life of Pope John Paul II ... In Comics! (October 2006)}}
• Belgian cartoonist Zak and writer Bert Verhoye featured Pope John Paul II in a satirical comic album named De Vliegende Paap (1985).{{Cite web|title=Zak|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/z/zak.htm|access-date=2020-12-22|website=lambiek.net}}
• Belgian comics artist Luk Moerman drew the satirical comic book album De Papevreters – Popebusters (1985), which satirized John Paul II's visit to Belgium that same year.{{Cite web|title=Luk Moerman|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/lukas.htm|access-date=2020-12-22|website=lambiek.net}}
• French comics artist Guy Lehideux created a biographical comic book about Pope John Paul II.{{Cite web|title=Guy Lehideux|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/lehideux_guy.htm|access-date=2020-12-22|website=lambiek.net}}
• French comics artist Jean Lucas featured John Paul II in a cameo in his album Le Secret de la Lune au Temple du Soleil.{{Cite web|title=Jean Lucas|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/lucas_jean.htm|access-date=2020-12-22|website=lambiek.net}}

• The pope is one of many famous people seen in Killing Joke's 1984 music video to their song "Eightie".{{Cite web|date=2012-03-20|title=Director Recalls Killing Joke's "Eighties"; "They Were A Frightening Band"|url=http://goldenageofmusicvideo.com/director-recalls-shooting-%e2%80%9ceighties%e2%80%9d-video-for-killing-joke-%e2%80%9cthey-were-a-frightening-band%e2%80%9d/|access-date=2020-12-22|website=Golden Age of Music Video}}
• John Paul II has been featured on at least seven popular albums in his native Poland. Most notably singer-songwriter Stanisław Sojka's 2003 album, "Jan Pawel II – Tryptyk Rzymski", a ten-track collection of the Pope's poems set to music, reached No. 1."[https://www.today.com/popculture/pope-rocks-polishpop-music-charts-wbna7848742 Pope rocks Polish pop music charts]", MSNBC News, 14 May 2005 (accessed 11 June 2005).

• Like many celebrities of the 1980s and 1990s Pope John Paul II was featured in the satirical puppet TV series Spitting Image. In parody of his frequent world tours he was depicted as a rock 'n' roll star with an American accent.{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QHMuCQAAQBAJ&q=pope+john+paul+II+spitting+image&pg=PT161 |title = Constable Colgan's Connectoscope: How One Thing Leads to Another|isbn = 9781908717825|last1 = Colgan|first1 = Stevyn|date = 1 October 2013| publisher=Unbound }}
• In 1987, Pope John Paul made a cameo appearance on the television soap Brookside. While Bobby and Sheila Grant were visiting Rome, John Paul made an appearance at a window for the crowd, clearly being seen in the finished production.{{cite book| author = Graham Kibble-White|author2=Phil Redmond| title = 20 Years of Brookside| date = 4 November 2002| isbn = 9781842227640| page = 160 |publisher=Carlton }}
• Pope John Paul II appears in the 2002 South Park episode "Red Hot Catholic Love".{{Cite web|title=South Park – Season 6, Ep. 8 – Red Hot Catholic Love – Full Episode|url=https://southpark.cc.com/episodes/9sz0th/south-park-red-hot-catholic-love-season-6-ep-8|access-date=2020-12-22|website=South Park United States|date=3 July 2002 }}

• Pope John Paul II is one of five world leaders to be featured in the 1989 video game Spitting Image.{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RyhQBwAAQBAJ&q=pope+john+paul+II+spitting+image&pg=PA129 |title = The Silence of Fallout: Nuclear Criticism in a Post-Cold War World|isbn = 9781443868037|last1 = Blouin|first1 = Michael|last2 = Shipley|first2 = Morgan|last3 = Taylor|first3 = Jack|date = 2 September 2014| publisher=Cambridge Scholars }}

• John Paul II's apostolic motto was Totus Tuus ("totally yours"); and according to his Rosarium Virginis Mariae he borrowed the motto from the Marian consecrating prayer as found in "True Devotion to Mary" by Saint Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort. The complete text of the prayer in Latin is: "Tuus totus ego sum, et omnia mea tua sunt" ("I am all Yours, and all that I have belongs to You"). Furthermore, he singled out Saint Louis de Montfort as a key example of Marian spirituality in his Redemptoris Mater encyclical, and in an address to the Montfortian Fathers said that reading one of de Montfort's books had been a "decisive turning point" in his life.Pope John Paul II on Saint Louis de Montfort {{cite web |url=http://www.catholicregister.org/content/view/1402/857/ |title=The Catholic Register - Embracing Mary's maternal tenderness |access-date=2 December 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202070615/http://www.catholicregister.org/content/view/1402/857/ |archive-date=2 December 2008 }}Pope John Paul II's encyclical Redemptoris Mater http://www.cin.org/jp2ency/jp2mot.html
• A new form of the Stations of the Cross, called the Scriptural Way of the Cross which calls for more meditation, was introduced by Pope John Paul II on Good Friday 1991. He celebrated that thereafter at the Colosseum.Joseph M Champlin, The Stations of the Cross With Pope John Paul II Liguori Publications, 1994, {{ISBN|0-89243-679-4}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.pcf.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_20000421_via-crucis_en.html |title=Vatican Description of the Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum |access-date=2 May 2008 |archive-date=3 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603105242/http://www.pcf.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_20000421_via-crucis_en.html |url-status=dead }}
• The Pope was named Time magazine's Person of the Year in 1994.[https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,982043-1,00.html Time magazine 1994 Person of the Year]
• According to a New York Post article of 19 February 2002, John Paul II personally performed three exorcisms during his tenure as pope. The first exorcism was performed on a woman in 1982. His second was in September 2000 when he performed the rite on a 19-year-old woman who had become enraged in St Peter's Square. A year later, in September 2001, he performed an exorcism on a 20-year-old woman.{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}
• The John Paul II International Airport (IATA: KRK), in Balice, Poland, near Kraków where he served as Archbishop before being elected Pope, was named in his honor.{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}
• His favorite football team had always been Cracovia, whose games he attended while living in Kraków.
• In 2006 a white hybrid tea rose was named "Pope John Paul II" in his honour, with a percentage of sales going to charity. Ten of the rose bushes were planted in the Vatican gardens.{{Cite web|url=http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0601633.htm|title=Oregon company develops hybrid tea rose in honor of late pope|last=Langlois|first=Ed|date=21 March 2006|work=Catholic News Service|access-date=9 January 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012020020/http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0601633.htm|archive-date=12 October 2008|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.jacksonandperkins.com/gardening/PD/32550|title=Pope John Paul II Hybrid Tea Rose|work=Jackson & Perkins|access-date=9 January 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090112003224/http://www.jacksonandperkins.com/gardening/PD/32550/|archive-date=12 January 2009|url-status=dead}}
• John Paul II sent the first papal e-mail in 2001.BBC, "[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1671540.stm Pope sends first e-mail apology]", 23 November 2001. Retrieved on 4 March 2007.
• Solar eclipses took place both on the day he was born and the day of his funeral 9:22 pm.[http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEplot/SEplot1901/SE1920May18P.GIF The solar eclipse on 18 May 1920 5:22–5:33] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080308193317/http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEplot/SEplot1901/SE1920May18P.GIF |date=8 March 2008 }} and [http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEplot/SEplot2001/SE2005Apr08H.GIF on 8 April 2005] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080308193318/http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEplot/SEplot2001/SE2005Apr08H.GIF |date=8 March 2008 }} on NASA web site.
• In 2004, Ferrari made a special F1 car for the pope to celebrate his 26th anniversary as the pontiff.{{fact|date=April 2022}}
• In 1988, when the Pope delivered a speech to the European Parliament, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, Ian Paisley, shouted "I denounce you as the antichrist!" and held up a poster reading "POPE JOHN PAUL II ANTICHRIST". The Pope continued with his address after Paisley was ejected from the auditorium, primarily by then 77-year-old Otto von Habsburg, former crown prince of Austria-Hungary and a well-known and devout Catholic, with Habsburg snatching Paisley's banner, punching him in the face and, along with other MEPs, pushing him out of the chamber.{{Cite news|last=MacDonald|first=Susan|title=Paisley ejected for insulting Pope|work=The Times|date=2 October 1988}}{{Cite news|last=Chrisafis|first=Angelique|title=The Return of Dr. No|newspaper=The Guardian|date=1 September 2004|url=https://www.theguardian.com/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,1305503,00.html}}{{Cite news | url=http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/ulster/article1826297.ece | work=The Independent | location=London | title=An amazing conversion? The Big Man makes a long journey | first=David | last=McKittrick | date=10 October 2006 | access-date=30 April 2010 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907134154/http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/ulster/article1826297.ece | archive-date=7 September 2008 }}{{Cite news|date=1988-10-16|title=HEADLINERS; Papal Audience (Published 1988)|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/16/weekinreview/headliners-papal-audience.html|access-date=2021-01-02|issn=0362-4331}}
• A popular story in chess circles states that a certain Karol Wojtyla had published a chess problem in 1946. Although the young Wojtyla was indeed an accomplished chess player, the story of this publication appears to be a hoax whose roots were uncovered by Tomasz Lissowski.{{Cite web|date=2005-04-08|title=Karol Józef Wojtyla, 1920–2005|url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/karol-jzef-wojtyla-1920-2005|access-date=2020-12-22|website=Chess News}}

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