Published Feb 07 2012 by Vulture


Understandably, Mel Gibson Has a Weird Relationship with Violence Now

Hollywood's Egyptian Theatre hosted a Mad Max trilogy screening in late January, and Mel Gibson was the guest of honor. Now there's a full video of the maligned star's 40-minute onstage conversation with the L.A. Times' Geoff Boucher, and while...

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...the L A Times " Geoff Boucher, and while there aren't many moments addressing Gibson's troublesome past few years, it's interesting to view the conversation in light of TMZ-age Gibson — or nearly impossible not to. "So many of your films have themes of sacrifice, redemption and intense violence," Boucher says to Gibson, a man serving three years probation and one year of counseling for a misdemeanor count of domestic violence, also the man behind Braveheart, The Passion of the Christ and a forthcoming Viking epic . "
...Weapon manic. "Yeah, but I managed to sort of rise above in the end. I think everybody has to; it's either sink or swim. Or you just don't wake up one morning. But I kept waking up, so I figured, 'what the fuck, I might as well enjoy it.'"
"You have to temper something like that, otherwise people just run out screaming. Really. So you have to make it as bad as you possibly can and have them stay in their seats. That sounds sick, doesn't it?" Gibson responds...

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