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In Reply to: Re: My sarcasm was intended to be humorous... posted by jamesgarvin on April 20, 2006 at 10:09:59:
Sure it is, I mean, it CAN be humorous.It's becoming clear that you did not properly absorb the point that I'm attempting to make, so I'll make this short and sweet:
1.Mel Gibson knew that there was a market for this film.
2.Mel Gibson made the film with his own money.
3.Mel Gibson made (and is still making) shitloads of money off his film.
4.If you think Mel Gibson made this film purely as "personal sacrifice" you better think again... Why would he make a film that he believed no one would want to see?
5.If you cannot understand what I'm saying, let's call it a day.
Cheers
Follow Ups:
ROSS: Then there is this return. It would seem that God is saying, 'I will bless this thing.' Obviously, He has.
GIBSON: He doesn't always smile on you with material reward. That's not always necessarily part of it. In this case it was. But I was prepared for it to not work at all. I didn't know that it would. Fortunately, it touched a lot of people. Therefore, they went and saw it and recommended it to other people. I have to say the champion of this push was the evangelical community. They were really rock solid. It did extremely well and many people loved it, and they sent correspondence. But I got some correspondences that were on the lines of 'ah, it was great, but I wish I could have taken my Aunt Martha or Uncle Frank.' They stayed away because they had heard of the more wrenching aspects of the film. It's pretty brutal in spots – and intentionally so. But I got enough of those things, like, 'I wish I could have taken a 15-year-old,' so I thought maybe there is room to reenter the edit and find another way, keeping the impact of the film, the integrity of the film, but extracting some of the more wrenching or brutal aspects of the film, and therefore making it available to a wider audience. That's, in effect, what I've done. It didn't get a PG-13. It's still hard, but it is not as hard. It's not as big of a release as the other one. It's already been out there, but bearing in mind that it's been softened some to attract a wider audience, I think it may do all right. And if it doesn't, that's OK, too.
ROSS: Are you disappointed by the fact that you weren't recognized by the degree you might have been at the Oscars?GIBSON: No. Disappointment doesn't come into it, because I didn't expect anything.
ROSS: Really?
GIBSON: Well, if you don't expect anything, you can't be disappointed. It is exactly what I expected not to be recognized, so I didn't do the massive marketing campaign. I just put the film out there and said if they are going to judge it, then judge it on its own merits.
Everyone knows that making a religious film targeted towards believers, given that less than 50% of the American population attends church regularly, of which teenage boys have no interest in attending, much less in taking their dates to, and which offer no hope of any foreplay, together with depictions of extreme gore and violence, for lack of better words, and subtitled, requiring attendees to actually read (they do not read at home, why in a movie?) is a sure recipe for megabucks. Gibson obviously knew this. Heck, I can't quite figure out why the multiplex is not littered with Passion, Part Deaux.
According to you!;-)
nt
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