Posted on 05/12/2006 8:55:00 AM PDT by doesnt suffer fools gladly
Film star and director Mel Gibson has launched a scathing attack on US President George W Bush, comparing his leadership to the barbaric rulers of the Mayan civilisation in his new film Apocalypto.
The epic, due for release later this year, captures the decline of the Maya kingdom and the slaughter of thousands of inhabitants as human sacrifices in a bid to save the nation from collapsing.
Gibson reveals he used present day American politics as an inspiration, claiming the government callously plays on the nation's insecurities to maintain power.
He tells British film magazine Hotdog, "The fear-mongering we depict in the film reminds me of President Bush and his guys".
That is to say that I know of many conservatives who were unhappy with the decision to invade Iraq. Several are in the military, in fact. My point is, respectively, that I wouldn't classify a conservative who was unhappy with the decision to invade Iraq as a coward.
"If the US Government really wanted to ferret out jihadists, it'd deport all Muslims to their country of origin."
Wow! Sorry, reading your first post condemning government snooping led me to believe you were a civil libertarian. I could not have been more wrong.
PF
Gave it another chance; thought I had misjudged it based on all the gore.
A second viewing confirmed, to me, that I hadn't.
Agree or disagree with him, Mel Gibson has always been his own man. He is far from the knee-jerk leftist idiots in Hollywood. I happen to disagree with him on this point.
Yes, the very last scene shows Christ resurrected in a very tight close-up. If I remember correctly he then gets up, but I'm not sure I remember. What did you not like about the movie?
Gibson is a creep. The Passion was anti-semitic, and now he proves again that he's not all that different from his creepy father.
I remember that scene. It think it was most useful in giving the audience a mote of comic relief, not because Mel was trying to be flippant, but because up to that point, it was such an emotional ride, that I think many in the audience needed it. I certainly did.
However, If Pres. Bush & Company hadn't made a huge effort to cut apart the terror network, and had allowed the American systems to continue in their previous laxity, opportunities for rampant terror would have grown in the US far beyond what they are today.
It's not going to happen again thanks to Pres. Bush's leadership.
"just wait til some islamic lunatic detonates a 6 kiloton device near the Capitol building during a joint session of Congress.......Try to imagine what might happen to your freedom and civil rights were the above scenario ever to happen".
So, Islamocrazies blow up the Capitol, and the government responds by clamping down on old, protestant, veterans like myself?
The more likely scenario is that we elect a new congress and senate, replace our dead executive branch folks, and the new guys let slip the dogs of war on the entire Muslim world, making Hiroshima and Nagasaki look like a church ice cream social. The few remaining surviving Muslims will clamor to become Methodists, Catholics, Jews, etc., and Islam will take its place on the ashheap of history along with the worship of Moloch and Huitzlopochtli.
"I laugh how people claim President Bush uses fear as a tactic.."
I watched it at home and must have fallen asleep before the very end. I didn't like that it didn't show Jesus' love and compassion and miracles. But I'm still glad he made the movie.
Nope, I wouldn't call him nuts. Read up on the Mayan empire. While some folks want to point toward droughts as dissolving the empire...if you go to a earlier point of 1441...where one of the major cities of the empire was burned to the ground because of a inhouse ruckus between various Mayan groups...that likely was the starting point where things really started downhill. Like the Romans...there was a ending point to a great civlization (bloody as heck...but still a major player in world history).
Very creative idea.........
Now, he needs the libs, so hey, bash Bush! That always works.
Not so, he is a paleoconservative who has always been wary of foriegn interventionism. Think Pat Buchanan, whom Gibson has long supported.
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