Mel Gibson
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441 appearances
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4 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 3 Mar
Mel Gibson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But I want to film a foot chase like it's a car chase. And he said, oh, I said, what are you thinking? I said, well, I'm thinking if you go back before Columbus discovered America, you know, and it's like people assume that Columbus discovered America and then life began. I said, I want to know what was happening right before he got there, before he got there.
And I said, so I had this idea that you see all this stuff going on and there's no time period on it. And then all of a sudden you date it by the arrival of Europeans. And I thought, it's kind of like the Rod Serling, you know, Planet of the Apes. Yeah, yeah. It's kind of a cool, cool ending. And he said, oh, wow. And he said, where do you think Columbus landed? I said, well, let's look.
So I looked up and the first peoples he encountered were Mayan trading canoes off the coast of Honduras. And I thought, cool, what was happening in Honduras? And you look at these towns and pyramids and temples and stuff at that time. And then the story was born from there. And, of course, then we read the book by Jared Diamond, Collapse.
I read the Mayan Bible, the Popol Vuh, and tried to delve into what they believed and what their civilization was like. And they had concepts, as we do, of heaven and hell. of punishment or reward, you know? It was a little different, quite a bit different actually. In fact, when I went down to the archeological sites at El Mirador, they dug something up and it was like, well, what is it?
It was this carved image in the stone of this Mayan warrior drinking, and he had an ear spool. And it was like, hmm. So they dug further and further, and it went like 26 meters down. And it was the entire story of the Popol Vuh, of the twins going into hell and getting their father's head and swimming back. And it's this crazy story. And it kind of dated that book.
Because I think it was almost 3,000 years old, this mural, this carving. So it tells you the story is pretty old. And they thought initially it was probably back in the 1300s, but this confirmed that it was at least 2,600 years old, something like that. Oh, wow. Yeah, so it's pretty cool. To be there when they're digging that stuff up is mind-blowing.
Yeah, they got some weird stuff. Weird?
Like, what is that? They got dudes that look like Europeans. They have these guys with red beards and helmets and stuff. Yeah. Like these Phoenician guys who probably traveled over there early on.
probably maybe in the 6th century or something like that. So it wasn't that long a boat ride, so they probably went over there and made contact, and they thought they were gods or something, and then they went away again, and they said, well, wait for them to come back. And, of course, they did come back. But it didn't work out the same.
Right.
Yeah. Guns, germs and steel.
Yeah.
Great. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. That's fascinating. I'll have to look into that.
Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. Germs. Yeah. Germs. I'm just on the tail end of some hideous flu that was going on.
I don't know what the hell. Yeah, I've had that. That was the swine thing. I had swine flu one time. Did you have that in 2009?
I got the swine flu. I acted more like a pig. Terrible. Terrible. Wallowing in my own mud. So I like Flight Risk. It's a fun movie. Oh, it's a hoot. I mean, I think the first thing you've got to do with any film, and I think it's incumbent upon all directors, artists, to entertain first. In some fashion. Even if it's a heavy story, you have to find some aspect of it that entertains.
And I think this, for entertainment's sake, is just fun. And it's quick. I'm not subjecting you to four hours of watching autism dry. Right. It's like... You know, it's 85, 90 minutes, and you're out. Yeah, it's a good time. Yeah, and Mark is insane. Yeah, he's great in it. He plays a good psycho. Oh, he's a psychopath. Mark's got a good dark side.
There's some dark stuff there that he was able to draw from. And every now and then he'd let it out. I can't even repeat some of the stuff he'd say. In fact, we had to cut most of it out. It was, like, really sick. But we hint at it.
Yeah, there are things that speak to me. And they speak for a long time. It's... I remember when I was a kid in high school, I was studying English. And they said, well, where did the English language come from? And they talked about, wow, it came from this old guttural German, old Norse that the Vikings brought across. And I was thinking, well, that's cool, the Vikings, you know.
And then immediately I start thinking, man, somebody should make – I want to make a film about Vikings and they only speak in Old Norse because if they say – if they speak English all of a sudden, you're not buying it. But if they speak in some guttural language, you're sort of scared by them. And it's like that's scary to me. And then I said to myself, I'm 17 years old.
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