Mel Gibson tackles addiction, recovery and the controversies over new film

ABC News ^ | 16 February 2004

[davidosborne]

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[Brian Allen]

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Out of enormous love and respect for folks like you, Ronnie -- and Hal Moore -- and The Christ -- Mel Gibson MADE We Were Soldiers.

And Braveheart and some other big-on-risk -- large on love -- HUGE HEART motion pictures.

Including The Passion OF The Christ -- which may kill him off in Hollywood.

And alter the course of the next 2000 years or so.

Blessings -- Brian

[kittymyrib]

But she didn't utter another peep after Mr. Gibson told her, "Diane, don't go there," when she was trying to make him apologize for the traditional Catholicism of his father. THAT is the way to handle the media, Pres. Bush.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

re: Diane Sawyer's "horror"

Apparently, she must be appalled at what millions of American Christians believe. Mel stuck straight with the Gospel accounts of Jesus. Ms. Sawyer represents the secular humanist liberal mafia who manipulate the presentation of reality through the Big News media. Limousine liberals. Apparently they feel they stand in judgment of Christians (as morally superior human beings). Just another goofy, self-righteous liberal.

[Aquinasfan]

"The Turks murdered half of the Armenians in ethnic cleansing," he told Sawyer.

I like how Mel worked that one in too. They picked the wrong guy to go after.

[Aquinasfan]

I have a feeling that Passion is going to make back its production and distribution costs in the first week of release.

I think it should go over the $1B mark when all is said and done, and I'll stick with my original prediction that this will be the top grossing movie in history.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Thanks for the warning.

[Blood of Tyrants]

yes, I understand, but our sin made in necessary for him to die to atone for them.

[Blood of Tyrants]

There are very few if any believers on the far left. The louder the left wing Christ haters howl, the closer to the heart we are striking.

[Taliesan]

Diane Sawyer looked at Gibson throughout the interview as if he were a madman and acted appalled at his responses to her.

To understand Diane, you've really got to remember her "interview" of Ken Starr where she was horrified that he sings hymns. Diane is the prom queen. Her values are popularity and smug sophistication.

This religion stuff is an embarrassing flaw in the little people. Thankfully, there is no-one in her dinner party circuit who thinks like that.

[biblewonk]

I think the movie is going to make Hollywood sit up and take notice,

I don't. Hollywood will react the same way Jack Nickolson did as mentioned by Mel in the interview.

[GROOVY]

I didn't see the interview, what was jack's reaction?

[harbingr]

'Diane Sawyer looked at Gibson throughout the interview as if he were a madman and acted appalled at his responses to her.'

It's ironic but predictable that DS and her comrads would probably conduct a pathetic-sympathetic interview if this was a movie about Moslem Jihad...

[biblewonk]

Mel was sitting next to Jack at some screening or something and Jack looks at him and askes "so how's Jeeeez's treating ya". Only Jack can do that to Jesus's name like that but you get the picture if you have seen him in a few movies. To Jack it's all BS. To Hollywood it's all BS.

[Texas2step]

He told Sawyer he doesn't mean to deny either that the Holocaust occurred or that there were millions killed.

"Do I believe that there were concentration camps where defenseless and innocent Jews died cruelly under the Nazi regime? Of course I do; absolutely," he said. "It was an atrocity of monumental proportion."

Asked if the Holocaust represented a "particular kind of evil," he told Sawyer it did, but added, "Why do you need me to tell you? It's like, it's obvious. They're killed because of who and what they are. Is that not evil enough?"

...And the Nazis killed Jews because they were Jews, in the Holocaust. OK?

Sadly, some will still claim that Mel is a Holocaust denier.

[BlueNgold]

I think it was a great interview.
Mel handled himself well and made clear his position as a Christian.

Best quote of the night?
I nominate:
"I am a believer!"

[BlueNgold]

www.fandango.com
Search movie titel by "passion"
They are listing local theaters for release!

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Diane Sawyer looked like she is horrified that anyone believes the orthodox New Testament account of the death and resurrection of Jesus. She sat in judgment of Mel Gibson's religious faith. Is this what American culture has degenerated to, liberal propagandists ridiculing Christians on television? The way she acted you would think there was strong evidence Mel had bombed a Synagogue or an Israeli bus.

Her bigotry was so obvious it was pathetic.

[Aquinasfan]

Jack looks at him and askes "so how's Jeeeez's treating ya".

I guess we know where his head's at.

[biblewonk]

No doubt.