Why Is Mel Gibson So Important To Hollywood?

It has been thirteen years since Mel Gibson made The Passion Of The Christ. It become the biggest-grossing independent film with $612 million in worldwide ticket sales. After a couple of years, Gibson made several comments that went public, made him seem anti-Semitic and racist. This made him eccentric at major agencies and studios, which have people who have committed felonies and done things far worse than Gibson. Since the release of the Passion Of The Christ in 2004, Gibson, one of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood, whose films have won multiple oscars and whose collective box office totals over $3.5 billion, hasn’t been directly employed by a studio. We have all come to know that Gibson is not a man who will shout from the balconies that he is not anti-Semitic. …show more content…
He will not explain to people that he first got himself into problem in his career of filmmaking because he was an alcoholic who spat hateful anti-Semitic remarks to a Jewish officer who was arresting him and that he still had a lot to offer to Hollywood as a filmmaker. That is the reason to why on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of The Passion of the Christ, people who worked in Hollywood proposed that it was time to forgive Mel Gibson and to give the guy another chance. When a reporter asked Gibson if he actually blames the Jews for starting all the wars, he said that he had been really hurt by the very personal criticism from the Jewish community over The Passion of the Christ. What happened after that was that his own faith led him to make a film about Christ’s story, and he was being attacked because people blamed him for being insensitive that his representation of Jews was that they were Christ’s killer. This of course led to the inflammation of religious tensions. He was being spat on by a few Jewish people, which of course was a very personal