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'Los Angeles, New Orleans, Washington, New York and university after university. Producer Bill Mechanic has been appearing at screenings of Mel Gibson's comeback movie Hacksaw Ridge across the US.'
'In many a Mel Gibson movie, there comes a crucial moment when a peace-loving man must pick up a weapon. In Braveheart it was a 13th-century Scottish sword; in Apocalypto it was a tribal spear. In Gibson's newest film, the World War II drama Hacksaw Ridge, you might assume the weapon would be a government-issued rifle. ...'