Posted on 12/11/2006 3:06:39 PM PST by SirLinksalot
I didn't say it was going to turn a profit.
I'll see it when it comes out on DVD.
I would say none. However, both the Passion film, and the greatly under-rated The Patriot, do have Christian themes interwoven. In Passion it is explicitly Christian, in The Patriot it is much more in the background.
The worse moments of all of Mel's movies combined can not match some of the garbage that came out of CommieWeird and it's Euro clone cesspool
Robin Hood had lots of relax time and humor in it. I would rate it with Mel's other movie for violence and fast moving, "We were Soldiers".
His interests Passion included seem to tend torward revenge and/or martyrdom fantasies. Even in films he's merely acted in (Ransom, Payback, many other films where he gets tortured like Lethal Weapon and Conspiracy Theory). Even Hamlet is about revenge.
WWS was actually cowritten and directed by Randall Wallace...who wrote Braveheart.
The profound bonds between the members of a family.
How, without a church, greed and violence come to rule unchecked.
The necessity for the values of Western civilization.
The abomination of sacrifice of the innocent.
The need to value the aging when they are past their usefulness.
The requirement that freedom be defended--that righteousness does not mean lying down like a doormat.
The sinfulness of singling someone out for ridicule (Blunt, who is the brunt of everyone's practical jokes).
The scene where the village elder tells a story, of how man has an empty place inside him that can never be filled. A Christian would say it was a Jesus-shaped space and that it can be filled. But there are no Christians there, ergo no one to tell people how to fill up that space. The elder went as far as he could go with his wisdom.
There's probably a lot more too.
Regardless of how people feel about Mel Gibson, he is a damn good filmmaker.
Did you see it?
Yes, I saw the main theme of the movie as a conflict between a tribe of people who loved life versus a society that was spiraling into a death cult.
Amazes me so many conservatives are still embracing this man and this movie when Gibson said openly how he compares the fearmongering in this movie to "Bush and his guys".
***Why does he like doing these kinds of movies ??***
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Gibson's company, Icon, also had something to do with an excellent claymation retelling of the Christ story. Called "The Miracle Maker." I've got it. Very good indeed.
He also gives alot of that money away and helped the poverty stricken people in the town where he filmed build homes for many families...
Oooooooooo! That's gotta hurt the self-righteous prigs who were praying to whatever Satanic idol they worship that Gibson was finished. However despicable his outburst a few months ago was, he's ten times their superior on his worst day.
He's had plenty of non-blood-and-gore films.
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