Currently watching Mel Gibson's The Patriot

I've seen plenty of movies about the American civil war but I've never seen anything about the American revolution.
It's giving me Brave Heart vibes.
It's very cool how he's originally half American half Irish and he made such important movies about the history of both countries. He basically faught the British twice in both movies. Very interesting.

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LeopoldBloom · M

Apparently, the only people Gibson hates more than the Jews are the English.

GovanDUNNY · M

@LeopoldBloom English and Jewish hate one hate us all British at end of the day

PiecingBabyFaceTogether · 31-35, M

@LeopoldBloom How do you know he does? I'm not a huge fan but I have no idea what you're talking about or whether you're right or wrong.

LeopoldBloom · M

@PiecingBabyFaceTogether I'm going by Gibson's drunken antisemitic comments, and his admiration of his father, a vicious antisemite, compared to the obvious hatred of the English in "The Patriot" and "Braveheart." Although the antisemitism in "The Passion of the Christ" was pretty bad. The translations of certain scenes in the Eastern European releases were significantly different from the English version released in the U.S., implying that he was trying to encourage violence against Jews in areas with historic antisemitism. Fortunately, audiences didn't fall for it. But I would still say his Anglophobia is worse than his Judeophobia.