* In the film What Women Want ( 2000 ), Mel Gibson's character tries to block out his daughter's thoughts by muttering the poem under his breath.

In 2006, Leary and Lenny Clarke appeared on television during a Red Sox telecast and, upon realizing that Red Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis is Jewish, delivered a criticism of Mel Gibson's antisemitic comments .< ref >

On 30 April 2004, Life of Brian was re-released on five North American screens to " cash in " ( as Terry Jones put it ) on the box office success of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.

It is reflected in Martin Scorsese's film adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's novel The Last Temptation of Christ, in José Saramago's The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Jesus Christ Superstar, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, Monty Python's The Life Of Brian, Jean-Claude La Marre's Color of the Cross and Hal Hartley's The Book of Life.

Marceau achieved international recognition in 1995 as Princess Isabelle in Mel Gibson's Braveheart.

In contrast to the negative depictions, in Mel Gibson's Braveheart, Isabella was played by the French actress Sophie Marceau more sympathetically.

* A character named Balliol, portrayed by British actor Bernard Horsfall, appears in Mel Gibson's 1995 Oscar-winning epic, Braveheart, an heroic tale of Scottish national hero William Wallace.

In July 2010, it was announced that DiCaprio had pulled out of a Viking movie to be directed by Mel Gibson amid controversy over Gibson's rage-fueled rant tapes and domestic violence probe.

The film's screenwriter, Robert Rodat, said of Mel Gibson's character: " Benjamin Martin is a composite character made up of Thomas Sumter, Daniel Morgan, Andrew Pickens, and Francis Marion, and a few bits and pieces from a number of other characters ".

In the movie, Mel Gibson's character asks, " Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?

The movie rights for the book were bought by Mel Gibson's Icon Productions in 1998, but production has not begun.

Though not owning the broadcasting rights to show first-run movies from 20th Century Fox, Showtime has been able to show independent films the studio owns the home video rights to, even if they did not release them theatrically, most notably being Mel Gibson's 2004 film, The Passion of the Christ.

In Mel Gibson's 2006 film Apocalypto, human sacrifice is done to appease the gods.

His son is also an actor, having been prominently featured as Mel Gibson's kidnapped son in Ransom.

* In Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ ( 2004 ), Pilate is played by Bulgarian actor Hristo Shopov.

In the late summer and fall of 2008, various scenes from Mel Gibson's film Edge of Darkness were shot on Church Street.

Actor Rudy Youngblood of Mel Gibson's film, Apocalypto, graduated from Belton High School.

There have also been a number of films telling the passion story, with a prominent recent example being Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.

In 1994, Garner played Marshal Zane Cooper in a movie version of Maverick, with Mel Gibson as Bret Maverick ( in the end it is revealed that Garner's character is the father of Gibson's Maverick ) and Jodie Foster as a gambling lass with a fake southern accent.

He continued to perform Shakespeare, and appeared with Kenneth Branagh in Henry V ( 1989 ) and as Polonius to Mel Gibson's Hamlet ( 1990 ).

In 2003 and 2004 some people compared Mel Gibson's recent film The Passion of the Christ to these kinds of passion plays, but this characterization is hotly disputed ; an analysis of that topic is in the article on The Passion of the Christ.

He gave such examples as same-sex civil unions, the " crudity of the MTV crowd ," and the controversy surrounding Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ.

Three CDs were released with Mel Gibson's co-operation: ( i ) the film soundtrack of John Debney's original orchestral score conducted by Nick Ingman ; ( ii ) The Passion of the Christ: Songs, by producers Mark Joseph and Tim Cook, with original compositions by various artists, and ( iii ) The Passion of the Christ: Songs Inspired By.

When asked about the film's faithfulness to the account given in the New Testament, Father Augustine Di Noia of the Vatican's Doctrinal Congregation replied: " Mel Gibson's film is not a documentary but a work of artistic imagination " and " Gibson's film is entirely faithful to the New Testament.

Blazing Saddles is a 1974 satirical Western comedy film directed by Mel Brooks.

Braveheart is a 1995 epic historical drama film directed by and starring Mel Gibson.

* High Anxiety, a film by Mel Brooks

) Mel Brooks directed a Keystone Cops-type car chase in his comedy film Silent Movie.

In the 1981 film History of the World, Part I, Moses is portrayed by Mel Brooks.

Melvin Kenneth " Mel " Smith ( born 3 December 1952 ) is an English comedian, writer, film director, producer and actor.

A well-known account is presented in the film Braveheart, directed by and starring Mel Gibson, written by Randall Wallace, and filmed in both Scotland and Ireland.

** Mel Ferrer, Cuban-American actor, film director and film producer ( d. 2008 )

Slapstick continues to maintain a presence in modern comedy that draws upon its lineage, running in film from Buster Keaton and Louis de Funès to Mel Brooks to the Jackass movies to the Farrelly Brothers, and in live performance from Weber & Fields to Jackie Gleason to Rowan Atkinson.

In 1967, Mike Nichols cast Hoffman in The Graduate, a role which prevented him from appearing in the acclaimed Mel Brooks film, The Producers, as Franz Liebkind.

Other references to Le Pétomane include Mel Brooks's 1974 film Blazing Saddles, Kevin Gilbert's The Shaming of the True, the 1984 college romp film Up the Creek, directed by Robert Butler, in which the four protagonists represent Lepetomane University in an inter-collegiate river raft race, Kinky Friedman's 1999 novel Spanking Watson, and John Hodgman's book The Areas of My Expertise.

The standard takes its name from the fictional town Rock Ridge in Mel Brooks ' film Blazing Saddles.

The book was first made into a feature film as a musical titled Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, directed by Mel Stuart, produced by David L. Wolper and starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka, character actor Jack Albertson as Grandpa Joe, and Peter Ostrum as Charlie Bucket.

Mel Brooks ' 1974 film Blazing Saddles, set in the Wild West in 1874, contains many blatant anachronisms from the 1970s, including a stylish Gucci costume for the sheriff, an automobile, a scene at Grauman's Chinese Theater, and frequent references to Hedy Lamarr ( 1914 – 2000 ).

The term lent itself to several " in " jokes: in Mel Brooks ' film High Anxiety, which parodies many Hitchcock films, a minor plot point is advanced by a mysterious phone call from a " Mr. MacGuffin ".

The Patriot is a 2000 American historical war film directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Robert Rodat, and starring Mel Gibson, Chris Cooper, and Heath Ledger.

New York Times critic Elvis Mitchell gave the film a generally negative review, although he praised its casting and called Mel Gibson " an astonishing actor ", particularly for his " on-screen comfort and expansiveness ".

* The Producers, a 1968 comedy film by Mel Brooks about an attempt to mount a sure-to-fail musical based on a failed play by an ex-Nazi about the " glories " of Nazi Germany.