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Doss, an Army medic in WWII (Andrew Garfield) who served during the Battle of Okinawa without carrying a rifle into battle.īefore the epic battle scenes, we get a glimpse into Doss’s life where he experiences the destructive nature of violence as a child which become the building blocks to his steadfast belief. Wow, what an incredible movie! The movie is Mel Gibson’s re-telling of the true story of Private Desmond T.

“There’s never an easy answer.Finally had the bandwidth to sit down, without distractions, and watch Hacksaw Ridge on Amazon Prime Video for the first time. “It’s a dilemma we can never completely escape, separating the artist from his or her creation,” Maltin says, citing such filmmakers as Woody Allen, Roman Polanski and Nate Parker, who’ve all dealt with their own controversies.

That success, notes film historian Leonard Maltin, is but the latest case of Hollywood-style redemption. (Moviegoers older than 50 gave it an A+.) Perhaps sooner than later, if “Hacksaw Ridge” manages to build on its opening weekend, a reasonable prospect given the movie’s good reviews and A audience grade from market research firm Cinemascore. “Something about the Maccabees? People don’t see it,” Gibson says. And he’s unwilling to finance the projects himself, as he did with “The Passion of the Christ” and “Apocalypto.” The projects that Gibson has ready to go - a long-gestating Viking “berserker” he co-wrote with “Braveheart” screenwriter Randall Wallace and a biblical epic about the Jewish historical figure Judah Maccabee - but he hasn’t been able to find anyone to bankroll them. Farhad Safina, who wrote the epic adventure “Apocalypto” with Gibson, is directing. Gibson says he’s being offered work, citing an unspecified project from filmmaker Ridley Scott’s production company, Scott Free Productions, that maybe he’ll “march off and do.” He’s shooting “The Professor and the Madman,” a drama about the men who put together the Oxford English Dictionary. I think it’s called a nervous breakdown? So it’s a pity you get penalized for that. Returning to the image of him being held captive in an attic, out of sight, out of mind, Gibson offered: “I’m not completely nuts or anything.