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Mel Gibson Slams Bush in Interview about New Film 'Apocalypto'
The National Ledger ^ | 03-20-06 | CK Rairden

Posted on 03/20/2006 10:12:58 AM PST by Coastal

Mel Gibson's newest film will be titled Apocalypto and is billed as an action/adventure film set 600 years ago, prior to the 16th-century Spanish conquest of Mexico and Central America.

IMDb gives a short description that details it as "where a man goes on a perilous journey to save his idyllic world."

And some of those that praised Gibson's epic "The Passion of the Christ" may take pause in how he describes this film by slamming the president.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 666; apocalypto; gibson; hollywood; melgibson; passion; presidentbush; stillcrazy; wot
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To: auto power

"This is sooooo disappointing...makes one feel like Mel used us when he filmed "Passion of the Christ"...."

No, he didn't do that. He made a film he wanted to make. It just happened to coincide with your beliefs. Now, he's making another film, which might not fit so closely.

He's a filmmaker, not a politician.

I've never understood why anyone cared about the political beliefs of actors and directors. It seems pretty irrelevant to me.

I was being sarcastic.


101 posted on 03/20/2006 11:05:18 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: Coastal

Heston's alive. He's 82.


102 posted on 03/20/2006 11:05:35 AM PST by fritzthecat (Fritz ... I only regret my economies)
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To: lady lawyer
It wasn't Bush who said to store tuna fish under the bed. It was my Mormon bro Mike Leavitt.

I think he qualifies as one of 'his guys'.

He gave me a brief moment of unwarranted fear. I have no storage space under my bed. I'm forced to keep my tuna fish in the pantry.

But it's better than expecting the government to take care of you, I'd say.

Agreed. It's always possible that there won't be any outside assistance available for an extended period of time.

103 posted on 03/20/2006 11:05:54 AM PST by siunevada (If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
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To: Tribune7
well he may be on to something there
104 posted on 03/20/2006 11:06:15 AM PST by vrwc0915
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To: auto power

How did he use you and who is us?


105 posted on 03/20/2006 11:06:54 AM PST by vrwc0915
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To: Coastal

The SSPX does not like Bush. He's just one of many. I'm not sure who they might like but they are few and far between. They're just people who think that everyone but themselves has it all wrong.


106 posted on 03/20/2006 11:08:19 AM PST by tiki
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To: trubluolyguy

I believe dividing line between enemy and friend goes through the policy which Bush represents. His line in the sand is to defend this nation and destroy its enemies who have attacked us. This means that those attacking the president are also attacking our national security needs because those attacks are based upon LIES.

It is not that Bush is a new dictator but that he is the man placed by history to carry forward America's goals and ideals. As were Washington and Lincoln.

Like Lincoln his willingness to defend the Union has earned him nothing but scorn, doubt and a plethora of mindless hatred from the shallow thinkers and outright fans of evil who control and are influenced by the Treason Media.


107 posted on 03/20/2006 11:09:16 AM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: vrwc0915

The "US" are those of "US" who go to these movies because we like to think and feel that the Writer/Producer or whomever you choose to give credit to the creation of any movie is giving US a reflection of what is really important in life...that's why.


108 posted on 03/20/2006 11:09:38 AM PST by auto power
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To: vrwc0915

Well, if Dubya supported Kyoto, obeyed the UN, was a gun-grabber and didn't pick judges like Roberts & Alito


109 posted on 03/20/2006 11:20:39 AM PST by Tribune7
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To: lady lawyer
I think I remember being told that the Catholic position was the people should be able to immigrate wherever they want.

An individual or group of individuals undoubtedly said something along those lines. That doesn't make it 'the' Catholic position. They can't rely on anything in writing to back that position up, because what is in writing requires balance. There are good reasons for people to immigrate but, at the same time, immigrants are required to respect the laws of the host country. That includes laws governing immigration itself.

The American bishops are also doing a bit of a tap dance in relation to the death penalty. They know it can't be declared morally wrong, so they are joining the crowd proposing a moratorium on imposing the penalty.

110 posted on 03/20/2006 11:24:08 AM PST by siunevada (If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
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To: Tribune7
Bush said he'd sign the assault weapons ban, he went to the UN to get permission for Iraq, and he tried to pick a moderate for the supreme court.
111 posted on 03/20/2006 11:26:24 AM PST by RHINO369
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To: Bernard Marx

It's too bad he couldn't hang out more with Bruce Willis. Maybe Bruce's thinking would rub off a bit...?


112 posted on 03/20/2006 11:27:52 AM PST by ChandyB71 (The Democratic Party = MEanderthals...)
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To: Coastal

Mel is very full of himself.


113 posted on 03/20/2006 11:31:33 AM PST by cubreporter (I trust Rush. He has done more for this country than we will ever know. Thanks, Rush!)
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To: MineralMan
It just happened to coincide with your beliefs.


I think it was much more than coincidence. I think arguably that Gibson did politic for his movie. He pointedly targeted the right, particularly conservative talk-radio and interestingly he avoided commenting about Iraq when asked. Why? Because he was trying to garner as much support from the right as possible. He surely understood the buzz the movie had here on FR and on talk-radio. Should he agree on everything about the war? Obviously not. But what rubbed me the wrong way about him was his transparent avoidance of the topic. Being straightforward and honest, I can respect. Playing coy though is insulting and unmanly. He always strikes me as coy.

(That said, I wasn't as impressed by The Passion as others, and I doubt I'll see Apocalypto; Gibson's style is just too overwrought for me.)
114 posted on 03/20/2006 11:31:34 AM PST by macamadamia
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To: RHINO369
He likes commie like mandatory "mental" health screening of children in public indoctranaition camps

He is giving away our country to illegal invaders

never met an Orwellian big brother program he didn't like

115 posted on 03/20/2006 11:32:34 AM PST by vrwc0915
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To: Tribune7

Yeah, I tend to go on the concept that not everyone agrees 100% with everything a president and his administration does or says.

I for one don't agree with everything Bush stands for. I still like him, I still think he's a highly admirable man and doing one heck of a job for all he's had to deal with in his term(s), and I still would vote for him (if he were to run again, if that were possible).

I like Mel and unlike my husband who refuses to watch movies of liberals (which pretty much narrows down the field a LOT), I go for entertainment vs. politics. I don't believe many in Hollywood even know what the heck they are talking about anyhew.


116 posted on 03/20/2006 11:37:30 AM PST by ChandyB71 (The Democratic Party = MEanderthals...)
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To: Hi Heels
i was checking out your homepage and saw the cartoon...

I have a question:

just because don knotts was on TV, does that mean he went to heaven?

117 posted on 03/20/2006 11:37:42 AM PST by Battle Hymn of the Republic
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To: Ashamed Canadian

I suspect Mr. Gibson was being black balled in Hollywood.
You can't finance your own pictures all the time, especially when some of these things cost 100 million before Marketing. This will get him back into good grace
with the freaks, and the enabling money men.


118 posted on 03/20/2006 11:38:40 AM PST by DAC21
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To: Coastal

Go to hell Mel!


119 posted on 03/20/2006 11:40:32 AM PST by F.J. Mitchell (President Bush isn't absolutely perfect,but he is absolutely less flawed than his critics .)
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To: Battle Hymn of the Republic

Uuum Charlton Heston is alive.


120 posted on 03/20/2006 11:41:11 AM PST by Borges
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