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Semi-protected edit request on 26 February 2023[edit]

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In the sentence - The 'good Jews' look like Italian movie stars (Magdalene actually is an Italian movie star, the lovely Monica Bellucci); Mary, who would have been around 50 and appeared 70, could pass for a ripe 35."[102]" - "the lovely" should be removed from "the lovely Monica Bellucci" and replaced with generic "the actress Monica Bellucci" as 'the lovely' implies multiple things that cannot be substantiated SocialInteractions (talk) 03:56, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: While such a characterization by the article would be unencyclopedic, this is a direct quote of from a review of movie and thus is presented unaltered as the opinion of that author. GiovanniSidwell (talk) 05:24, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ok thanks for explaining that to me. sometimes I have to read a sentence 15 times to get it to click due to TBIs. Thanks again SocialInteractions (talk) 20:29, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Future projects[edit]

What's up with this section? It really doesn't make much sense to have content that is now several years outdated and will probably never come to fruition under the heading "Future Projects" since whatever is added to this may be relevant at the time but quickly passé once that time has passed. It constantly needs to be updated and checked. Half these projects never happened and are no longer "future". Are they now: "unrealized projects"? Why bother? "Beserker" is considered dead in the water (2021). Warner Bros. shelved the Maccabees script (2012). The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection is already shot and ready for release in 2024 (this needs to be removed). "Destroyer" stopped cold in 2018. 2005 "Sam and George" was cancelled so I don't know why it's even in this section. Maineartists (talk) 21:49, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

i removed/merged that section. but imo the "film work" section still has to be integrated into the career section -- FMSky (talk) 08:40, 8 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 8 June 2023[edit]

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Whoever wrote this needs to include "We Were Soldiers Once...And Young" to Mel Gibson's film credits 71.31.254.148 (talk) 01:05, 8 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The film version of We_Were_Soldiers_Once…_and_Young is We_Were_Soldiers which is already in the article RudolfRed (talk) 03:02, 8 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

American Actor[edit]

He actually came to Australia very young and was brought up Aussie and trained here in Australia at NIDA. He didn't go back to America til his mid 20s. 2001:8003:E020:CB01:FFD6:E0E2:F8E0:52EA (talk) 10:28, 21 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Australian Defence Forces?[edit]

Is there a reason why this passage reads as "The move to his grandmother's native Australia was for economic reasons, and his father's expectation that the Australian Defence Forces would reject his eldest son for the draft during the Vietnam War." as opposed to merely Australian Defence Force? Was it named Defence Forces at this time? Indigo tadpole (talk) 04:29, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]