Interview: Mel Gibson

Dark Horizons ^ | February 16, 2004 | Paul Fischer

[.45MAN]

Great interview. Thanks for posting..

[dansangel]

***BUMP***

[dansangel]

Does this warrant a "Passion Ping?" Thanks!

[truthandlife]

'Passion' ping

[toddst]

When his Passion of the Christ is finally behind him, he still longs to be behind the cameras. "I love the storytelling process of directing, and I think I know how to do it.

Mr. Gibson isn't responding to pressures from the "anti-crowd", now looking ahead because the "Passion" has its own momentum, can stand on its own now. His faith kept him centered through all this, is what I'm hearing.

[Maximilian]

Here is how a traditional Catholic brings Christ to a modern audience:

And here is how "Vatican II Catholics" do it:

(This picture is just so funny I had to find some excuse to post it.)

[Dataman]

Passion Downloads

[Dr. Scarpetta]

bump

[Freedom2specul8]

Thanks so much for posting...

[Texas2step]

"Ah, good question. I'm too old and I can't deal with the action stuff anymore." That also tends to rule out the much delayed Mad Max 4. "It's getting to the point where they'll start calling it Fat Max,"

Tell me it ain't so! I just knew he was going to do another Mad Max movie. Man, that's too bad.

[kstewskis]

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kstewskis]

Marsh-mellow, you might find this article and this excerpt interesting on Mel's views of doing interviews.

Not one to generally shy away from the press, on this occasion, the Oscar-winning director and Hollywood star is not availing himself to the general press here, with the exception of some high-profile television and a few major print outlets. Quite frankly, he says, the film doesn't need it. "I don't like doing press and never have. You put up with it and if you need to do it to help something, then ok, you help make an awareness. But this doesn't NEED it, because it's got its own kind of life, so I don't have to do as much." Gibson says that doing little publicity is a good thing "because I'm an idiot when I open my mouth. I might as well shut up and go away." The director says it's therefore better to be prudent. "Besides, once you go out there, you end up engaging in the nasty kind of editorial name-calling, which I didn't want to do, because that's what this isn't about."

check this thread out

[kstewskis]

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[SengirV]

That is too sad. Nothing like pissing on tradition. It's getting more and more like George Carlin's part in the movie Dogma(not for most here).

[Barnacle]

Bump.

[autopsy]

I just can't figure out how the monk got airborne. There's no ramp.

[Unam Sanctam]

Most orthodox Catholics are looking forward to the Passion. Your slur on "Vatican II Catholics", which improperly implies the existence of a new Church since Vatican II, is unwarranted and unfair.

[USMA83]

It's called an "Ollie".

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

"What makes one spiritually bankrupt is a lack of maintenance,"

Yes!