>>>>>>>>>>http://www.cracked.com/index.php?name=News&sid=2202
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>>>>>>>>>That would really be a problem for anyone who uses movies as history lessons. Thankfully, I know it's entertainment.
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>>>>>>>>You can't run from truth with think all movies are just entertainment. Some movies based on true things... Change the record. You play some song continuously... Run your brain. You can do better (I hope)...
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>>>>>>>Documentaries are meant to be true. All others are entertainment. I didn't really expect you to do better.
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>>>>>>If everything Mel Gibson's done to portray the English were true, I'd be ashamed to declare my nationality!
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>>>>>>He really hates us for some reason.
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>>>>>>I wouldn't be surprised if he had English pharisees in "The Passion of Christ" condemning X to death.
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>>>>>>OTOH wasn't that film all in Aramaic and/or Latin or summat?
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>>>>>"The Passion of Christ" was in Aramaic. I wonder how many people had even heard of Aramaic before the movie came out.
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>>>>Well I for one had! I knew JC didn't speak Yiddish! :-)
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>>>>>What is the general view of Australians towards England? I thought it was pretty positive, although I wouldn't be surprised if there is some lingering resentments given the origins of Australia. (Well, not the origin; settlement by whites).
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>>>>otoh Gibson is an American, despite the fact he lived many years in Oz.
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>>>Wouldn't he be better described as an Australian who has now lived many years in the U.S.? I don't think of his as any more "American" than Russell Crowe or Michael Caine.
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>>Well considering he was born in NY and spent at least the first 8 years of his life in the US before the family moved to Oz.:
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>>http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/biographies/mel_gibson_biog.html
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>>He was born on the 3rd of January, 1956, in Peekskill, New York, the sixth of eleven children. His father, Hutton, was a brakeman for New York Central Railroad and, considering New York City no place to raise children, moved the family north to Croton-on-Hudson, then on to nearby Verplanck Point and, by 1961, on to a farmhouse at Mount Vision. Times were hard and Hutton figured he'd run the farm and do his rail job too. So he spent weekdays in New York City while the family (isolated by mother Anne's inability to drive) stuck out on the farm. It was tough, but a great place to be a kid.
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>>In 1964, disaster struck when Hutton suffered a serious work accident and lost his job. The Gibsons were forced to move into cheap rented accommodation, with the older children having to take jobs, while Hutton entered into a compensation battle with the company. It would take three years to work out....
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>>As for Michael Caine - he can only do two accents: cockney and a cockney tring to do another accent.
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>Thanks for the info. I had no idea he spent his first few years in New York.

Came as quite a surprise to me when I first heard the truth, esp. as the 1st film I saw him in, which launched his career, was "Galipoli", where he was as oz as a galah! (difficuly allitero-assonance to that last phrase or what! :-)