Will Mel Gibson’s Bush Bashing get him back on the "A-List"?
Terry Trippany on Sep 26 2006 at 11:01 am | Filed under: Feature Article, Media Watch, That's Hollywood!
It appears that Mel Gibson is trying to weasel his way back into the good graces of Hollywood. The shortest path on that route of course is by bashing anything related to President Bush. Hence we get the following report from Reuters.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Mel Gibson has returned to the spotlight to promote his upcoming movie “Apocalypto,” and to criticize the war in Iraq, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Apocolypto, The Decline of the Mayan Civilization and America all in one Package?
Huh? Suddenly a movie about the decline of the Mayan civilization is a metaphor for the decline of America under the rule of George Bush?
Well that is exactly what it is according to Gibson.
In describing the movie’s portrait of a civilization in decline, Gibson said, “The precursors to a civilization that’s going under are the same, time and time again,” drawing parallels between the Mayan civilization on the brink of collapse and America’s present situation. “What’s human sacrifice,” he asked, “if not sending guys off to Iraq for no reason?”
Of course we now know that paying off terrorists to go blow themselves up in Israel is probably on Mel’s list of acceptable sacrifices.
What an ass. I love these types of movies and Gibson has to go and muck it up with his completely irrelevant political bullshit that really has nothing to do with the movie.
The synopsis from IMDB has the following:
As the Maya kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices.
This is about right. Howard Dean couldn’t have written the Bush decline better.
Prediction. It won’t be long before Mel is back in the good graces of Hollywood as the new hero of the left.
Libertas has a great article concerning this latest episode from the Hollywood crowd on Mad Max reincarnate.
It’s interesting how all of the news articles about Gibson, which recently showed him looking crazy or deranged, have now reverted to glamor shots. So I guess everything’s OK, now! All’s forgiven. Hey - even Ahmadinejad was in town; he’s on the cover of TIME. So why not Mel?
Exactly. It doesn’t take much.
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[...] There’s a fair amount of angst on the right about Mel Gibson’s repudiation of the “War” on “Terror”, almost a sense of betrayal. The prevailing view seems to be that Mel is trying to win back favour in Hollywood by adopting a fashionable stance. Their surprise is puzzling, because Mel is a staunch Roman Catholic, and the highest profile, most vocal critic of the “War” was Pope John Paul II. [...]
The assumption of course is that I adhere to the idea that the Roman Catholic Church should be making political policy or that Pope John Paul’s criticism of the War in Iraq was valid. In particular, John Paul and Cardinal Ratzinger did not agree with the idea of a pre-emptive war and that avenues should be taken through the U.N.; which of course they were.
Neither John Paul II nor Pope Benedict had the benefit of intelligence documents that the United States and Britain had. For those of you on the left who forgot to pay attention there is an increasing amount of documentation being uncovered from Hussein’s regime that indicates that Saddam not only had illegal weapons programs but that he actively worked to hide them in the days leading to the war.
Not only that, one document indicated that Saddam was hiring suicide bombers to attack American interests as early as 6 months before 9/11.
There are many more documents along the same lines that talk about weapons programs, poison gases and attacks on American interests. Please don’t sit there on your perch and discount this as right wing propaganda; you can go read them for yourself.
The silly idea that Mel Gibson is a “staunch” Roman Catholic is just that, silly. Staunch Roman Catholics are not anti-Semites. Even if Mel were though that wouldn’t stand for much in this discussion because my views on this discussion are not formed through the lens of the Catholic Church.
Finally, the Catholic Church and the Pope are not playing up to Hollywood as Mel Gibson is. They have a role in speaking their moral conscious about war as they are the moral guide for millions of Catholics throughout the world. Not all Catholics agree with every word they speak yet they can appreciate and understand basis from which they speak.
Mel’s is simply there to advocate for Mel, get people to talk about him and his movies, make money (gasp, should make the left cringe), and get back in the good graces of the Hollywood establishment who shunned him after making the Passion of the Christ and even more when he went on his anti-Jew rant. Seems pretty clear to me.
[...] Richards’ comments and behavior were quite repulsive. However we have seen that the media driven Hollywood tends rally around its own in cases such as this. Mel Gibson’s anti-Semitic outburst is practically ancient history now that he used the war in Iraq as a platform to launch his latest film, Apocalypto. It doesn’t appear that the industry shunned him for too long. [...]