Mel Gibson movies

I'm so glad that The Patriot was the first movie you mentioned in that context; Gibson's decision to cast himself as the only plantation owner in 18th century South Carolina who employed emancipated black workers so he could be that much of a white hat was an eye roller when it first hit theaters.  That film is begging for a Youtube remix nowadays.

Aside from the implicit message of Lethal Weapon 2, where the integrated police fight white South Africans, and The Man Without A Face, which turns into a plea for empathy for registered sex offenders in its third act, I don't know if Gibson has done much on the "issues film" front.

After rewatching Braveheart recently, I was struck by how heavily the film relies on Mel's movie star charisma to fill out the character of Wallace.

Yeah, I recently rewatched Braveheart on Blu-ray, and it has pretty weak character development all around. He did cast the thing awful well though, and it sure is a purty movie.

How about that one film where Gibson's character stalks his ex-girlfriend and leaves threatening messages on her voicemail, only to have her make them public? Oh wait...

There's an outstanding moment in LETHAL WEAPON 4 when a rabbi asks Mel "Are you Jewish?" and he's all "Uhh no."

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Originally Posted by Reasor 

I'm so glad that The Patriot was the first movie you mentioned in that context; Gibson's decision to cast himself as the only plantation owner in 18th century South Carolina who employed emancipated black workers so he could be that much of a white hat was an eye roller when it first hit theaters.  That film is begging for a Youtube remix nowadays.

 

Aside from the implicit message of Lethal Weapon 2, where the integrated police fight white South Africans, and The Man Without A Face, which turns into a plea for empathy for registered sex offenders in its third act, I don't know if Gibson has done much on the "issues film" front.

That's even funnier when you find out Gibson's character was based on a real guy who was a pretty virulent racist.

I haven't seen Man Without a Face in years. What's that about the 3rd act?

The boy and his teacher get separated by the authorities after someone sees the kid running around the house in his skivvies.  Gibson confesses to the boy that, as a professional teacher, he had an affair with one of his students in the past.  Gibson accepts the period equivalent of a restraining order to avoid prison in a scene where he's meant to be the subject of the audience's sympathy and the cruel state functionaries are a star chamber, and it's treated as love overcoming the odds when Gibson sneaks into the boy's graduation in the epilogue.  The violins swell and everything.

Wow, somehow I forgot all of that. I kind of want to watch it now.