(This article was originally written by the movie Rotten Tomatoes: dylfc99)
Some time ago, the French film "My Father And My Blood" was released in North America and attracted widespread attention.
Why the widespread attention?
Not because of how good this movie is, but because the male protagonist of this film is a man who is very familiar to the whole world.
Mel gibson
Tomato Jun first came to pick up this movie.
The director of this film is the Frenchman Jean Francis Ricket, who is known for making action films.
As early as 2005, his "Blood Spatter 13 Police Station" has made countless fans of violent aesthetics obsessed.
The later "Public Enemy No. 1" series gained him a lot of fans.
(Blood Spatter 13 Police Station, Number One Public Enemy)
This time directing "My Father And My Blood", he is familiar with the road.
Although the plot is slightly old-fashioned, the degree of completion is not bad, concise and crisp, without dragging mud and water.
The tight plot makes this film also an excellent commercial film.
In My Father My Blood, Mel Gibson starred in a "Liam Neeson" father role in Hurricane Rescue.
It seems that every tough guy can't help but receive such a film when he gets old.
The girl is not more troublesome, and has made a boyfriend who uses drugs.
During a burglary, dissatisfied with her boyfriend's cruel methods, she shot and killed her boyfriend and ran away.
Her first instinct after running away was to contact her father, who had just been released from prison.
So Mel Gibson showed up in a classic car.
He began to protect his daughter, and he also began to fight for her daughter and re-emerge from the jianghu.
In battle after battle, the father wielded his male hormones.
Although the strength is not caught, it seems to have returned to youth.
It's kind of like "Old Cannon.".
It's also a bit like Al Pacino's "Brothers Rise To The Top."
The same hero Twilight, the same strong heart.
Here, Tomato Jun will not spoil.
However, what Tomato Jun wants to say is that the most touching thing in the whole film is not the content of the film itself.
It was Mel Gibson's already wrinkled face.
But although this face is wrinkled, it is still full of acting skills and is still full of manliness.
After years of silence, Mel Gibson's well-defined, angular tough guy face finally reappeared on the big screen.
But in fact, "My Father And My Blood" is still only a foreign film for the North American market.
It's still a bit too early to talk about the return of Mel Gibson.
Why is it that this screen tough guy who became famous in the 1980s, the Hollywood superstar who won the Oscar for best director for "Braveheart" at the age of 39, will never direct any film after shooting "Revelation" in 2006?
Why would he be able to take over some small and medium-cost independent productions after 2006, and isolate himself from the six major Hollywood studios?
There must be a reason why any celebrity can disappear from public view for a decade.
Not to mention mel gibson, who was once a generation of heroes in Hollywood.
All of this, we have to start with his drunkenness ten years ago.
July 28, 2006, was supposed to be an unusual Friday for Mel Gibson.
After directing two consecutive films, "The Passion of the Christ" and "Revelation," which received both box office and word-of-mouth acclaim, fifty-year-old Mel Gibson is on the rise of his own directing career.
(Passion of the Christ, Revelation)
He drank a few more glasses of wine on Thursday night, and he made a big mistake.
Tomato Jun really doubted that after that Friday, he would not be upset when he saw the wine glass and would be disgusted by drinking.
In the early hours of Friday morning after the cup, he raced down the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu.
On that 45-mile section, he reached 87 miles per hour.
Soon after, he was arrested by the police on charges of drunk driving.
Of course, if it was just drunk driving, things wouldn't be as serious as it later developed.
When the police questioned him, he forgot to be careful in his words and deeds, and alcohol paralyzed his brain.
He shouted:
"Damn the Jews, they're responsible for all the wars in the world." Are you Jewish? ”
When this sentence was uttered, the stone broke the sky and an earthquake occurred in the public opinion circle.
The next day, "Mel Gibson's anti-Semitic remarks" immediately made headlines in the major Media in the United States.
If the media wants to make a person popular, it may have to take some thought.
But if the media wants to make a person stink, it can really be done in minutes.
Even without the help of the media, this matter is bound to have serious consequences.
Of course, the bearer of this serious consequence must be Mel Gibson.
You know, Jewish groups play an important role in American society.
Many of them control the financial, IT, and military industries in the United States.
And most importantly, the American film industry is basically in the palm of the Jewish hand.
Anyone familiar with Hollywood knows that there are eight major film companies in Hollywood:
MGM, Paramount, Columbia, Warner Bros., Universal Cinema, United American, 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney.
(MGM Lion Roar)
The owners behind the eight major film companies are said to be Jewish.
Got it?
This remark, even after drinking, was enough to get Gibson banned from Hollywood.
Apparently, he was also very aware of the consequences of his words and deeds, and afterwards he made an apology:
"I would like to apologize specifically to the Jewish community for those harsh words, and please believe that from the bottom of my heart I am not an anti-Semite, nor a religious diehard, and that any hatred is contrary to my faith." Many Jewish groups don't want to have anything to do with me anymore, I can understand, but pray that this door will never be closed. ”
Although the current affairs man is Junjie, the big mistake has been made.
Even robert downey jr., Gary Oldman and other industry big names support him.
(Robert Downey Jr., Gary Oldman)
But the bigwigs of the Jewish community, I'm afraid, will never again want to see Mel Gibson on the big screen.
He hasn't been able to direct a single film since.
The next time we saw his name in the newspaper, it was all about some lace news about him:
Divorced from his wife, and thirty-five years younger than his young model.
It just has nothing to do with movies.
He has self-directed and starred in Braveheart, and he was a box office guarantee in Hollywood.
But after that incident, no one dared to invest in him again.
Because giving him the money is equivalent to punching the Jewish big guys standing behind their backs.
In 2008, he talked about his embarrassing current situation:
"Why I don't want to say it, because every time I say it, someone will make some similar movies first, and you know that there are commercial spies in the film industry, and the TV industry is similar."
He had countless ideas, countless ideas in his mind.
But it is no longer possible to achieve, and it can no longer replicate the success of that year.
I had to act intermittently in small-budget independent films.
Obviously, that doesn't belong to Mel Gibson's stage.
In 2009 he starred with Judy Foster in Beaver.
However, it was still affected by the "anti-Semitic incident" and could not be supported by North American theaters, and eventually received only a small box office of $970,000.
I don't know how Mel Gibson will feel at the sight of this pitiful number.
Mel Gibson, who debuted in 1977, has always been a top male star in Hollywood.
From "Mad Max" and "Gallipoli" in the eighties to "The Sky Is Gone" and "The Faceless Man" in the early nineties.
Born in theater, he has created countless classic roles that have left a deep impression on the big screen.
His resolute and rigid face is the memory of a generation and a symbol of the times.
But his greatest success, not as an actor, but as a director.
Like his predecessor Clint Eastwood, peers Kevin Costner, Sean Penn and junior Ben Affleck, Mel Gibson played and directed, and after winning a series of acting awards, he began his directing career.
His debut film was "Braveheart", which later won him ten Oscar nominations and eventually won five Oscars.
Who can forget Wallace's earth-shaking "freedom" when he was dying?
Classics are classics, and after Braveheart, we have never encountered such a touching war blockbuster.
Since then, he has successively filmed films such as "The Passion of the Christ" and "Revelation".
Just when people were expecting him, he experienced this decade of silence.
Today, there is good news and bad news.
The bad news is that he is sixty years old.
The former male god had countless marks on his face, his movements were not so agile, his eyes were no longer so sharp, and he did not know whether his talent could once again amaze the world.
The good news is that with "My Father And My Blood" landing in North American theaters, he may be able to really return to Hollywood.
Ten years, those mistakes made, have long been dried in time, and have become his precious wealth.
And what kind of works can the more mature him bring us in the future?
Let's wait and see.