How Do You Direct Movies Like Mel Gibson?
Mel Gibson has enjoyed a long career in Hollywood as an actor, a director and a sometimes controversial figure. As an actor, Mel Gibson is best known for his wacky and often reckless characters like those in the “Mad Max” and “Lethal Weapon” movies. The movies Mel Gibson has directed, however, have for the most part been ambitious and grave. His two most famous movies, “Braveheart” and “The Passion of the Christ”, are universally considered epic in scale. To direct movies like Mel Gibson, you need a mix of audaciousness, vision and cinematic skill. Start with challenging dramatic material. Whether you write the material yourself or work from another’s screenplay doesn’t matter, as Mel Gibson has directed both films he has written and films he has not written in equal measure. Think big. In Mel Gibson’s three most recent films, he has chosen subject matter that required massive productions. Battle scenes for his movie “Braveheart” employed thousands of Irish soldiers as extras. Maximize
