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Prior to 2004 actor, Mel Gibson was mostly known for his cinematic performances in Braveheart, The Patriot, the Lethal Weapon series, along with a countless other film appearances. But in the past few months, the anticipation of Gibson's independent film, The Passion of the Christ, has become the subject of controversy in several different communities and realms of society. Mel Gibson has become known as an ultra-conservative, devout, "by the book", Roman Catholic who went against a predominantly Jewish run Hollywood in the hopes to produce a film about the last 12 hours of Jesus Christ's life. Many felt that the movie was going to cause outrage across the country and outside the United States due to the possibility of it being interpreted as having an anti-Semitic nature. Fortunately for Gibson, controversy, when depicted through the media, also produces interest, and as a result his Passion was able to become a success, in if at nothing else, a financial aspect. Gibson......

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