Mel Gibson
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441 appearances
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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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Why am I thinking about making films about Vikings? I don't know anything about making films and not much about Vikings. So why the hell am I even thinking about that? But that was something that was early on was like a drive, I guess, to sort of depict things like that. So I did films in other languages, in Mayan and in Aramaic and in Latin. And there's a power to that.
I noticed when I was young, I used to go and watch a lot of foreign films. And I watched French movies, right? Or German or whatever they were, Spanish. I'd watch them and I'd think, wow, the acting's great in those. And it seemed better because of the subtitles. Right. Yeah, yeah. More believable somehow.
And also, it has to take your attention because you have to do another function. You have to read. Yeah. Which is another thing that sort of maybe blinds you to the flaws in the filmmaking, perhaps. Yeah. You know, hey, it's a great trick. It's obfuscation.
Yeah. And there's something about the written word that's like it's a pretty interesting thing to throw into the mix. I know when I first started it was kind of confusing, but then I got really good at it.
And I think especially with something like the passion that I did, the written word was very important because it was, you know, you got all those books, the Bible, you know, you've got the different gospels and stuff that people are quite familiar with. Half the time, they didn't even need to read the subtitles. They could look at it and know what was going on.
Yeah, there was a lot of opposition to it. And I don't know. I think if you ever hit on that subject matter... You're going to get people going because it's big subject matter. And it's like, you know, and my contention is, you know, when I was making it, it was like you're making this film.
And the idea was that we're all responsible for this, that his sacrifice was for all mankind and that for all our ills and all the things in our fallen nature. It was a redemption. So, you know, and I believe that. You know, I actually am. You know, I was born into a Catholic family. I'm very Christian in my beliefs, you know. So I do actually believe this stuff to the full.
So depicting that was an honor, but it was also, yeah, you got the daylights beat out of you for it.
And people do feel free to beat up on it.
Even I do when I see it's like, you know, when it's not fair. Right. When I think it's off. Right. Like, you know, when they appoint some cardinal in some diocese and he's been covering up for like people who are child molesters. Yes. You know, like Theodore McCarrick or Cardinal Wuerl or those kind of guys. I mean. Or the Pope.
Yeah. Absolutely. Benedict. Not Benedict. Well, he was covering up, but like. Yeah. So is the guy now. Is he really? Well. It's not great.
Oh, he's very progressive, yes.
Well, the institution, it was instituted by Christ. But that doesn't mean that it can't be flawed. And there's a school of thought that says – It isn't what it purports to be anymore. It's moved away from what it was intended to be and what it is. Almost like there's a guy called Bishop Vigano who says it's a counterfeit parallel church and it's running an entirely different religion.
I actually don't, I don't adhere to a post-conciliar church. I adhere. Can you define what that means? Okay. There was an event that happened in the 60s. First, there was an event in the Vatican where they elected John XXIII, Pope, right, in 1958. I was two years old, right? Um, he was elected and it was a very funny thing that happened in the conclave.
You know, usually there's white and black smoke that goes out of the chimneys to tell you we have a Pope, you know, have a must pop them, you know, and the white smoke came out. And everybody cheered and they went crazy. And then about a half an hour later, black smoke came out. That never in history has that happened, that the white smoke came out and then the black smoke came out.
That's right. They'd have votes or there'd be one reason or another they'd have a round in the conclave and black smoke would come out many times, many times maybe. Maybe it would take two weeks. Yeah. But never was it known that white smoke came out, then black smoke came out.
That somebody was elected. and that maybe something else happened, and he was pushed aside and someone else was put in. So it was some kind of power struggle. And, of course, the man who came out was a man called Angelo Roncalli, and he was John XXIII. Now, it's interesting to note that never had a pope taken the name of another pope ever before in history.
But this man took the name of a known anti-pope, from the 15th century, that Cosimo de' Medici put in there as his own man. I'll get you in the chair, and then everything will be rosy. Everything will go good for business, whatever he was putting him in there for, some corrupt reason. And there have been corrupt men in that place before. I mean, there's Alexander VI and Julius II and Sixtus IV.
I mean, some of these guys are, you know, they're not saints. So he took the name of a known anti-pope from the fifth century who actually said, yes, I'm an anti-pope. Sorry, I'm not the right guy because there was more than one. And he confessed to being and he wanted to, you know, square things with with the almighty, I guess. So he confessed to being an anti-pope.
And so he took the same name as that guy, John the 23rd. So it's interesting, don't you think?
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