[macamadamia]

Mel Gibson made the best Vietnam war movie ever made



Mel Gibson didn't direct or produce We Were Soldiers. Randall Wallace directed the movie. Unless something unorthodox went on, it's safe to assume that Randall Wallace is the one who visualized We Were Soldiers. Wallace probably guided the movie's editor, but not necessarily. IOW, the movie is Wallace's.....not Gibson's.

(Gibson didn't direct The Patriot either...even though it's been claimed here otherwise.)

[ansel12]

"Mel Gibson didn't direct or produce We Were Soldiers"



Correct, I caught that after I posted.

Some of my confusion came from the high level of involvement Mel had in the lead role as an actor.

Soldier of Fortune magazine did a long article about the movie, Mel, and fellow Catholic Lt.Col. Hal Moore, and how Moore and Gibson and Galloway worked so hard to make the film realistic, and the close personal relationship that developed between Moore and Gibson.