{"id":53634,"date":"2016-10-29T22:06:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T05:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=53634"},"modified":"2016-10-29T22:27:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T05:27:46","slug":"watch-mel-gibson-dedicates-hacksaw-ridge-to-the-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/10\/watch-mel-gibson-dedicates-hacksaw-ridge-to-the-veterans.html","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Mel Gibson dedicates Hacksaw Ridge<\/i> to the veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Hacksaw Ridge<\/a><\/i> is, among other things, a comeback film for Mel Gibson, an Oscar-winning director who also used to be one of the world\u2019s biggest movie stars.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the first film he has directed in ten years \u2014 a hiatus that began with a couple of scandals that made him persona non grata<\/i> in Hollywood \u2014 and when the poster<\/a> and trailer<\/a> came out in July, you could sense that the distributor wasn\u2019t quite sure how prominent Gibson should be in the film\u2019s ad campaign; as many people noted at the time, both the poster and the trailer avoided mentioning Gibson by name.<\/p>\n

Now, however \u2014 after a successful film-festival launch that has resulted in a string of positive reviews<\/a> and several proclamations that Gibson is out of the doghouse \u2014 the distributor has put Gibson front-and-centre in its latest promotional video.<\/p>\n

Here is the video, which begins with Gibson telling the camera, \u201cHi, Mel Gibson here. Thank you for giving me a couple of minutes to honour our veterans\u201d:<\/p>\n