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From Mel Gibson, director of THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST and the Academy Award®-winning BRAVEHEART (Best Director, Best Picture, 1995) comes the thrilling historical epic
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WE WERE SOLDIERS – DVD Movie
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From action to comedy and even drama, Mel Gibson is one of the most versatile and charismatic actor in Hollywood today. He is known to take risks and face challenges. He battles his own demons that some say is the key to his character. Despite all of these, Mel Gibson has become one of the most sought after leading men and critically acclaimed director. He was also awarded the Order of Australia, the highest honor being given by his adoptive country.
Contrary to what others believe, Mel Gibson is not an Australian. He was born in Peekskill, New York on January 3, 1956. He is the 6th of 11 siblings of Mr. and Mrs. Patton Gibson. He’s of Irish lineage and was raised as a devout catholic. His father was tough disciplinarian and taught them importance of attending church mass in the traditional Latin. He loved comedians like Laurel and Hardy and The Three Stooges and often mimicked their crazy antics to entertain his brothers and sisters. These types of comedies can sometimes be noticed in some of his comedic films.
In 1968, Patton Gibson flew his whole family to his wife’s home country of Australia. Mel was enrolled in St. Leo’s Catholic School and he had to avoid being teased by hiding his American accent and learning the Australian way. He had a knack of getting into trouble often and soon started to learn how to drink, a vice he’ll have a life long struggle with. His sister, noticing the dangerous path Mel is leading to, secretly applied him to The National Institute of Dramatic Arts since his graduation is nearing. He reluctantly went to his interview and surprisingly aced it. His good looks and charismatic figure caught the attention of his teachers and saw that great potential in him.
Mel’s first film was Summer City in 1976. He was 20 years old when he was offered the low budget film. This film landed him an agent and after 3 years learned about an audition being held in Sydney. He barely made it to the audition still dazed with hangover but it was rumored that the minute he entered the room the director immediately wanted him for the job. Mad Max (1979) would turn out to be the film that would make a huge impact on his life. The 1980s was a time of a growth spurt for the Australian movie industry and Mel Gibson’s career was able to ride along. His next film was Gallipoli (1981) where he won the Best Actor in a Leading Role from the Australian Film Institute. On that same year Mel reprised his role as Max Rockantansky in the Mad Max sequel The Road Warrior which grossed over $23 million dollars – a respectable amount of revenue at that time. The film The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) showed Mel Gibson’s dramatic acting opposite Sigourney Weaver and even cemented his credibility as an actor with a wide range of talent. The third installment of the Mad Max series Beyond Thunderdome (1985) catapulted him even further into stardom. This led him to being named People Magazine’s very first Sexiest Man Alive. Known to be a man with a short fuse and moody character, Mel Gibson quickly made a connection with his next character role in the first of 4 of Lethal Weapon series. The Gibson-Glover duo proved to be an excellent combination in the box office. Lethal Weapon (1987) raked in $127 million worldwide while the sequel, Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) grossed $137 million in the U.S. alone. From then on almost all his films were box office successes including Forever Young (1992), Lethal Weapon 3 (1992), Maverick (1994) and Braveheart (1995). Braveheart was his second directing after The Man without a Face (1993) that would earn him as the Best Director in the Academy Awards. Braveheart grossed $210 million with a budget of only $72 million and certainly is one of the top 10 must watch movies. He then starred in numerous great films after that such as the Ransom (1996), Conspiracy Theory (1997), Lethal Weapon (1998), Payback (1999), What Women Want (2000), The Patriot (2000), We Were Soldiers (2002), Signs (2002) and directed his most controversial and personal film about the last days of Jesus in The Passion of the Christ (2004).






























