>>Whatever. I never saw it, but I remember the stink over it. Some here seem to think that it was offensive to Jews.
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>>BTW, I bet he managed to make the baddies (Romans or pharasies?) appear to be British as he seems to loathe us, in all his films (well, except the comedy romance types).
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>Eddie Izzard noticed that in most Hollywood movies, that supposedly happen in another language (but all the characters still speak English), the villains will have a British accent.

This has always been the case. How many baddies did James Mason play in holywood films? I doubt he was a goody in more than one. But the thing is that Gibson always portrays the English as evil (or blundering) as they come:

The Patriot - burnt the whole village inside the church
Braveheart - left Wallace's family crucified on the gates to his castle
Gallipoli - English officers sent the plucky anzacs to their certain death, despite being told it was all pointless

>Darth Vader and his officers in Texas drawl - can't have that, can we? They must sound British or they aren't convincing.

Well Darth Vader's voice was James Earl Jones - and his voice with no disguise or hint of Britishness.
But tghe turkeys with the Afrika Korps hats were all British more or less.

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>I wouldn't be surprised if the Romans in this brochure had undergone the same linguistic treatment.

Brochure?