Posted on 09/04/2016 10:29:39 AM PDT by amorphous
Mel Gibson has made a move about a pacifist who served nobly during WWII. It's a testament to his filmmaking chops, and also an act of atonement that may succeed in bringing Gibson back.
Mel Gibson’s “Hacksaw Ridge,” which premiered today at the 73rd International Venice Film Festival, is a brutally effective, bristlingly idiosyncratic combat saga — the true story of a man of peace caught up in the inferno of World War II. It’s the first movie Gibson has directed since “Apocalypto,” 10 years ago (a film he’d already shot before the scandals that engulfed him), and this November, when it opens with a good chance of becoming a player during awards season, it will likely prove to be the first film in a decade that can mark his re-entry into the heart of the industry. Yet to say that “Hacksaw Ridge” finally leaves the Gibson scandals behind isn’t quite right; it has been made in their shadow. On some not-so-hard-to-read level, the film is conceived and presented as an act of atonement.
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Trailer:
Hacksaw Ridge (2016 - Movie) Official Trailer – “Believe”
“HACKSAW RIDGE is the extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss [Andrew Garfield] who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. As an army medic, he single-handedly evacuated the wounded from behind enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded by a grenade and hit by snipers. Doss was the first conscientious objector awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.”
Desmond Thomas Doss (February 7, 1919 – March 23, 2006) was the first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor and one of only three so honored (the others are Thomas W. Bennett and Joseph G. LaPointe, Jr.). He was a Corporal (Private First Class at the time of his Medal of Honor heroics) in the U.S. Army assigned to the Medical Detachment, 307th Infantry, 77th Infantry Division.
Gibson is only at issue because he is not a hollywierd liberal and they hate him. Liberals are full of hate.
Scandals that engulfed him? Mel got drunk, got pulled over and said things he shouldn't have to a cop. Seems fairly tame by Hollywood standards.
http://www.militaryeducation.org/10-bloodiest-battles-of-world-war-ii/
The trailer says it was the bloodiest battle of WWII. Okinawa, nightmare that it was, doesn’t even make the top 10. Horrifying.
Battlefield witnesses say he saved 100 men on the ridge. Mr. Doss said it was
“only” 50. His MOH Commendation split the difference at 75.
In another context, Corporal Archie Miller of Portsmouth, Ohio was finally ordered home when he received his 5th Purple Heart in 1945. While actually in battle, under enemy fire, and fighting aggressively unlike John Kerry, Miller was wounded 2 times by sniper fire, 2 times by mortar fire, and was last wounded by a Japanese hand grenade.
His wife said he was too tough to die.
(08/03/45)
Just reading the story of the amazing feats of physical
strength time after time after time that Doss displayed
was almost unbelievable. His story is just spectacular.
He was a very unassuming man with great faith in the Lord.
I lived on Tarawa street on Fort Benning post. Yeah, Okinawa was bad but that was a real bloodbath.
Guadalcanal, Iwo, others.
Clearky it’s too much to expect in this day and age, and from Hollywood, no less, that there might be a film celebrating the life of one of the tens of thousands of courageous fighting men (most little older than boys) whose story remains untold and who gave up his life fighting those who would enslave us - without a lot of ‘pacifist’ rhetoric.
The American public can’t be allowed to consider for even a moment that those who died or suffered horrific wounds facing and killing Japanese troops while laying their own lives on the line for us... we can’t be allowed to think it was right or just or... God forbid... heroic.
If he has just held a big pool party with lots of Hollywood film folks and quite a few pubescent boy stars and abused the boys, it would have been no big deal. But no, he had to mouth off to a cop.
Hollywood libs don’t mind a gang rapist named Nate Parker.He is on their radar to be the next big thing...
AND he did it all without a safe space.
Desmond Doss may be heroic.....
......but the last visual I had of Andrew Garfield was a photo of him standing in front of a mirror in a tutu and makeup.
I can’t reconcile paying real money to watch some dude conflicted by his sexual tendency playing a real life hero.
Just saying
The author has found a unique way to use a psychology degree. Movie reviewer!
It’s a good thing he didn’t sit out the National Anthem to protest cops. His Hollywood party calendar would have been too full to film this movie.
The three best war movies of all time are all owned by Mel Gibson. There is too much Jewish influence in Hollywood. Mel buried the Hollywood competition. His Christ movie earned 10 times their feeble effort. And there will be a Part II.
Too many Christian movies are a Jewish view of a Christian movie. Sigh. Mel comes along and cleans their clocks. All they got is name calling, racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe.
LOL
Too many Christian movies are a Jewish view of a Christian movie. Sigh. Mel comes along and cleans their clocks. All they got is name calling, racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe.
LOL
Huh? Saving Private Ryan - directed by Steven Spielberg (who is Jewish, and who btw consistently treats Christianity with respect in his movies) - is not one of the top war movies of all time?
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