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Whats Wrong With Him?

posted 8 years ago by robbystoner
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I am a big fan of him both as an actor and even more so as a director. He is the only one IMO who makes what I like to consider the modern equivalent of Peckinpah films. Consistent high quality and auteurship in his films.

But there is something wrong with him. I watched the interview of him recently and he is constantly twitching and pulling at his face and cracking his neck. Is it possible he is schizophrenic disorder? I watched some interviews of him in the 80s and 90s and he was nothing like that. Is this what happens to some of us when we hit 60s?

Can this really be the end..to be stuck inside of mobile
with the Memphis blues again.

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[–] DancingDaffodils 8 years ago

He's definitely not schizophrenic. Mel Gibson has always had nervous tics, like rubbing his face and tugging on his arm hair. He's also always been a bundle of energy and pulled faces. Back at the time when Maverick was released, Jodie Foster called him something like "the tic-y-est person alive."

An interview from 1985 shows him doing the same stuff he does today: rubbing his face, wiggling his eyebrows, licking his lips,and making jerky head movements.
https://youtu.be/Db2TgE0AUt0?t=2m29s

As an actor, he's actually gotten better at removing them from his performances as he's gotten older.

Are they worsening in real life? I'm not sure. He is much more nervous now when giving interviews than in the 80s and 90s, for good reason. If you're talking about Greg Laurie's interview at the SoCal Harvest, that was Mel at his most nervous because he's in front of a religious audience of tens of thousands.

When he's relaxed, the tics aren't so prominent.

Take a look at these very recent interviews in Australia where Mel is energetic without being nervous.
https://youtu.be/akPXqwyiaZc
https://youtu.be/usrRMz4suj4

[–] robbystoner 8 years ago

Yeah. The SoCal interview was the one that I was looking at recently. He looked and behaved very strange. He actually resembles a family member of mine who is a schizophrenic and on meds. The meds allow him to function as a human and he is intelligent and able to communicate, but he can't really hold a job or have a relationship.

Can this really be the end..to be stuck inside of mobile
with the Memphis blues again.

[–] DancingDaffodils 8 years ago

Yeah, that SoCal interview. Mel has stage fright, plus he must have felt especially self-conscious in front of an Evangelical audience, given his screw-ups over the last 10 years.

[–] LukeLovesFilm28 8 years ago

It's sad. His problems only got worse after the controversy. I imagine going up on stage like at GG might feel like you have a red dot on your forehead when you're so despised by the industry.

Get off your soapbox while I play you a tune on the tiniest violin.

[–] al666940-3 8 years ago

Maybe he's indeed on some sort of meds for something related to his anger

[–] TVippy 8 years ago

I may be wrong, but I think 60 years of hard drinking and Hollywood lifestyle do that to you. And yes, his bearing is not normal.
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