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Quentin Tarantino and Ken Russell Dis Mel Gibson
"Kill BIll 2" director Quentin Tarantino recently decided to see Mel Gibson's movie "The Passion of the Christ" and play film critic.
Tarantino displayed his pint-sized acumen by comparing Gibson's magnum opus to a spaghetti western. He told the Scottish Daily Record: "It's interesting to see how the Italians have really used the Jesus story in doing their spaghetti westerns. There's always that pivotal moment in spaghetti westerns where the hero gets captured and they almost beat them to death and then they come back."
In other news about Gibson, a Russian "human rights" organization is demonstrating how the would-be movie muggers are still plotting. Relying on undisclosed religious "experts," Moscow Human Rights Bureau put forth the tired claim that the film fuels hatred and is sending out signals that it might sue Mel over the movie.
And Ken Russell, director of the rock opera "Tommy," recently threw Mel a punch, too. Russell went ad hominem with his jab, though. He shocked a film festival in Turkey by calling Gibson "a scumbag." Apparently, the Brit is perturbed not about "The Passion of the Christ" but about another Gibson epic, "The Patriot."
"He made a film on the American Revolution and showed the British burning down a church full of women and children. We never did it," Russell yammered.
The Left Coast Report is amused that, as Mel's film continues to break box-office records, his detractors keep turning ever-deeper shades of green.
"He made a film on the American Revolution and showed the British burning down a church full of women and children. We never did it," Russell yammered.
And how, exactly, would Russell know this? I mean, was he there? Is he that old? :roll:
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