Mel Gibson

Andrei Sharry: The Man of the Day Radio Freedom today is an Australian -American film actor, producer and director Mel Gibson, who celebrates his anniversary.

Gibson was born in 1951 in a suburb of New York, in a large Catholic family. He received acting in Australia. He made his debut in the cinema in 1977, he received fame at the very end of the 70s after filming in the Mad Max militant. Among the most famous films with the participation of Gibbon - Tekila Sanraise, Bounty, Deadly Weapon, Patriot. As the director made his debut in 1993 with the film "Man without a Face", in 1998 he received five Oscar prizes for the film "Brave Heart", in which he played the main role, in 2003 shot the sensational film "Passion of Christ." Now he is working on a multi -part television film about the Holocaust, he has just completed the picture of the history of the Mayan Indians.

My colleague Alexander Genis says about the man of the Day of Radio Radio.

Alexander Genis: Mel Gibson is not playing according to the rules. In addition to the muscles laid down by the famous hero of the militants, and the ambitions who brought his opponent into politics, the Australian actor and the New York native has a burning faith - faith in the rightness of his religion. Gibson can and should be called a fundamentalist in the literal sense of this explosive word today. He is always looking for where deeper. Gibson descends to the bottom of the conflict, hoping to find the original state of the world there, a certain ideal, a beneficial status quo that violates the modernization of thoughtless from progress. This is even a "courageous heart", this unpretentious, albeit an Oscar, a militant in a Scottish cage.

But, of course, his “Passion” became the cinematic gospel of Gibsonovsky fundamentalism - a film whose heroes for the first time in the cinema speak only in dead languages, Aramaic and Soldier Latin. In the affairs of the church, Catholic Gibson does not even recognize Vatican changes like those that canceled the Latin Mass. With Hollywood gullibility to illusions, he seeks to restore the last first truth, to show how it really was. Therefore, in his passions there are so few cinema and so many torment.

Releasing in countless police ribbons, Gibson knows a lot about cinematic cruelty. But this successful actor became the director-provocator not to entertain the audience, but in order to torment them with compassion. Even those who, like I do not feel gratitude for this, are forced to pay tribute to Mel Gibson, he is trying to transform the celluloid violence of Hollywood into the theater of cruelty. Gibson shot his new film on the current user - the picture of "Apocalypta", telling about the fall of the Mayan empire. The film, of course, will go in the ancient and almost incomprehensible language of the Mayan Indians.