Wasn't literally all the hate directed towards him spawned from a single recorded phone call where he was clearly drunk and arguing with his gold digger wife through the process of a really nasty divorce? Hasn't he come out and apologized for that? Wasn't all of this settled years and years ago? Didn't he admit at some point that his behavior came from the relationship he had with his dad or something of that sort? Honestly what has Mel even done that is so bad? Not saying he didn't do stuff, just genuinely asking because i don't know. Beyond its value as a film, it gave us so many other things that we love, from Gladiator to Kingdom of Heaven (and, arguably, Saving Private Ryan), from The Lord of the Rings to Game of Thrones - all these properties carry a touch of Braveheart about them. Wonderfully romanticized, but never prettified, Braveheart is a masterclass in filmmaking. But the editing remains so patient, the writing sensitive, that you can't help but relate, even as our hero performs acts of bloodshed that most screen heroes would shy away from. Of course, once the action setpieces started coming, the film's humanity could have (again, in the hands of a lesser filmmaker) fallen apart in favour of noise and spectacle. Yet, these scenes too benefited from the director's patience and confidence, not only in that the first real action setpiece happened 46 minutes into the film, but because Gibson milks the build-up to the outbreak of violence for another three minutes and it was the same with every action setpiece in the movie. What, of course, is anything but simple were the incredibly complex action setpieces that he mustered for this film. And, in the simple, confident ways that he directs his camera and his actors he draws us into his story all the more. In cinema just as in music, a slow tempo befits sadness. Instead of rushing through the uncomfortable parts, like the death of William's father, he lets us wallow in his character's grief for seven minutes (!), which are almost entirely devoid of dialogue (!!).
Instead, Gibson confidently plays it slow and methodical. We've only recently seen a much more seasoned director royally lose his nerve, when JJ Abrams decided to put the plot of The Rise of Skywalker on fast-forward. I mean, what kind of sophomore director, coming off of a little drama film like The Man without a Face decides to do a big spectacle film, shot in treacherous locations, using hundreds of extras, expensive sets and in a genre that's been dead for four decades? And then decides to make it even less audience-friendly by making it three-hours long and hard-R? That takes BALLS.Īnd, with this script, I think any other director in this position would have lost his nerve and tried to rush throug the early part of the story as fast as possible so as to get to the "good stuff" and keep the thing short. What makes it so great is that the courage of Gibson as the producer is the courage of Gibson as the director, is the courage of Gibson as the actor, is the courage of the character he plays, is the courage that is the theme of the damn movie!
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