Mel Gibson and Peter Weir talk about death threats while shooting The Year of Living Dangerously.
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The Year of Living Dangerously was one of Mad Max star Mel Gibson’s earliest films, co-starring with Sigourney Weaver and Linda Hunt.
While based on the real-life events of revolution in Indonesia in 1966, but shot in the Philippines and Australia, threats to the lives of the cast and crew added a dangerous dimension to the making of the film
In fact, director Peter Weir and the producers decided to quit the Philippines and move the production back to Sydney to complete the shoot.
The teaming of Mel and Sigourney worked well, but the eye-catching, and Oscar winning, performance came from actress Linda Hunt, as a local video-camera man.
The casting of Hunt’s character, Billy Kwan, had been a lengthy challenge for Weir.
Gibson was just 26 when he made the film, playing an Aussie journalist caught up in the cross-fire of the revolution and local politics.
Only a year before, he had co-starred in another Peter Weir film, the powerful World War I movie Gallipoli.
Shortly after the film was released in,1982, Mel and Peter talked to me about their experiences shooting The Year of Living Dangerously, and Hunt’s casting and performance,
While Mel was born in the US, he spent his teenage years and much of his 20’s growing up in Australia. Hence the Aussie accent
Over the decades, he’s been named The Sexiest Man Alive and voted one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World.
Now in his mid-60’s, Mel has resurrected his career after a few bumpy years involving controversies - over drink driving and other incidences, including derogatory comments about Jews and women. He has since apologised for those outbursts.
Mel is expected to appear in a number of TV and film productions during 2022-23, including a new Lethal Weapon movie.
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Mel Gibson is a piace of art.
Fabulous actor and director to. I’ll bet he’s a fun Dad.
It's in my top three movies. I felt exhilarated when I walked out of the theater I remember saying "I want to live a life of adventure!". And I did.
Me too 😊
Fortunate to have seen this film in the theatre when it came out - what an experience! Glad to see this interview.
I'm indonesian, and despite all the controversy surrounding the film, i'm so proud that this film make the world more aware of my countries early political condition.
🇮🇩🇮🇩
And so happy that the genius Peter Weir and Vangelis work on this film 🇮🇩🇮🇩
Vangelis personally had nothing to do with the film.
I love Vangelis but Maurice Jarre did the score.
@@rockhero2274 One piece of Vangelis' music is in the film. A piece called L'Enfant. It is the rejected theme he wrote for Chariots of Fire. It is in the scene at 1 hour 1 minute in the film (when they leave the party and drive in the car together). You can kinda hear how that piece eventually evolved into the Chariots of Fire theme in it.
Mel was ridiculously beautiful in his youth.
I TOTALLY AGREE !!!!
MEL WAS AN ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS MAN IN HIS YOUTH. 💋💋🥰🥰❤️❤️
HE HAS MANY YOUNG SONS THAT RESEMBLE HIM BUT NONE ARE AS GOOD LOOKING AS MEL WAS.
Ikr. I think he's the most handsome man in Hollywood to exist. 😂 I'm late to the scene but I'm young so.
@@racheldsouza8895 The beauty of Mel in his youth surpassed any man I think , past or present, watch Mrs Soffel , an absolute treat for the eyes 😍
@@Peaceshiet812have you seen him in ' TIm' ? Beautiful film
@@romystumpy1197 yes , I love it❤️
One of my all time favorite movies. Brilliant.
Also one of my top 3 movies. Over 40 years since I first watched it and it still leaves it deep impression. A friend is flying to Jakarta right now, which made me look this up and think more about it.
Thanks for posting this lovely interview.
Teenage niece who never saw Mel Gibson without a grey beard was wowed! What a hot man he was!
That was such a good movie...I've seen it four or five times. Every time TCM or Turner Classic Movies shows it here on basic cable, I have to watch it again...one of my all time favorites: love Vangelis, btw.
My favourite film.I was born that year(1982).
Thanks Peter for this movie.
Sigourney& Mel& Linda 👏
Love from Croatia.
I'm assuming you're living dangerously?
Linda hunt's performance seems to have changed the world.
Billy was a fabulous character! So spiritual!
I dealt with the threats as the Producer. Nobody was hurt. Jim McEleroy
Superb film! Beautifully filmed, excellently cast, and very suspenseful.
Glad you enjoyed it!
The days when Mel had an Australian accent. ❤
Linda Hunt transformed completely into Billie Kwan. Won the Oscar. Billie was weird anyway and it worked very well. Never looked like a woman to me.
back when the academy awards meant something.
I appreciated seeing this interview. Insightful, intriguing and very interesting
Only now, many years after seeing the film, do I understand the genius of this movie. I am sure now it is not a movie about two westerners having an torrid love affair during a country undergoing civil unrest. The phrase "the year of living dangerously" is not a reference to these characters, but to Billy. The phrase itself was an actual phrase used by the Sacarno regime . I believe the whole movie is about Billy's enchantment and disillusionment with the dictator Sarcano, which mirrored what the feelings of the Indonesian people about Sarcano during that time. All of the characters exist in Billy's little puppet world as shadows of Sarcano. Guy and Jill's affair represented the love affair that Billy had with Sarcano: at times hopeful, then disappointed, then betrayed, love and hate. Billy's initial enchantment and later disillusionment with Guy mirrored the people of Indonesia's experience with Sarcano. The tenuous relationships with different factions (Communists, Sarcano Government, Military) by Mel's character, represented Sarcano's relationship with these factions. The exploitation of the impoverished people by the other journalists (sexual and otherwise) represented both the West's and Sarcano's exploitation of the same. I now believe Mel's character was a spy posing as a journalist. Why do I think this? When he betrayed Sigourney's character by revealing the impending military action, he did this not to get a scoop, but because it was his job as a spy. He may not have done it if he were just a journalist. His seduction of her had the hallmarks of that aspect of spycraft, he knew she would have information he could ferret out. Of course, being a spy herself, she knew what had happened, and why he was doing it. That's not to say there was some attraction and real feeling between them, again a reference to the Indonesian people being aware of Sarcano's failings, but loving him anyways. This may be just a theory of mine, but that is now how I see it. After all it's about shadow puppets, and who but spies are the ultimate shadow players. Billy of course knew Jill was a spy--why would he try to get her together with a journalist if he knew this? He knew something greater would come out of it. On a side note, one contribution of this film that Guy's clean shaven, crew cut character, with the open collar blue shirts, brown belted Khakis, and stainless watch, made an impact on fashion, showing, that at time when longer hair and showing outfits on men was popular, that a man dressing classically with clean cut appearance could be dead sexy.
Thank you Nick for a detailed and thoughtful reflection on The Year of Living Dangerously. Much appreciated.
Great interview!! 😍 go Mel!!!!
Straight up one of my favorite movies of all times.
Me too ✨
Brilliant film and maybe my all time favorite!
Thanks for the video. Small thing..I believe the movie takes place in 1965, not 1966.
I love this interview. What a fantastic director.
People would never accept that today, and it´s a shame (Linda won an Academy Award for her work).
People today suck. On both sides. We’re drowning in ego.
Joder que man más guapo, donde los hay así !! ?
Así de guapo, como Mel en esa época ya no los consigues.
ميل غيبسون أمريكي من أصول بريطانية إيرلندية و استرالية
Amé esta película, pero más amé a Mel Gibson, en esta época, era un bombón de chocolate. Esos ojos verdes, mi Dios!
They are blue.
Son azules sus ojos 😉
Mel Gibson was so hot in his youth. After so much self-abuse, he became a caricature of the man he should have been. Peter Weir was and remains gorgeous and one of the greatest film makers of his generation. This film was all about Billy Kwan with Gibson and Weaver as satellites in the his personal struggle to balance politics, obsession, colonialism, love, loyalty, compassion, revolution and myth.
Oooh I know, watch the movie ' Tim' Mel is young in that beautiful movie
As the Producer as mentioned below, I maintained complete care for my colleaugeas. I was of course finding helfp for the writer. Peter Weir was well.and truly alive.
This was great, thanks!! Very neat to see. Wonder what Mel had done to his hand prior to this.
Immenso in tutto ❤❤❤
Those blue eyes
Australians once upon a time didn't give a fuck what any Englishman said ir did
The Year of Living Dangerously was the first time I saw Linda Hunt... I thought she was a man for years....
Her voice didnt give it away ?
@@lukebandy516 - Nope.... I thought she had some sort of deformation - a bit dwarfish for a man... and I assumed that affected her voice.
A man named Linda? 😉 well there’s a man named Sue lol 😆
I saw the film. It was not until I read the credits did I find out that Billy Kwan was played by a woman.
Mel Gibson yaaaaaaaaa!!!
It’s so annoying how good-looking he was, and I am incredibly jealous 🥴🥴😂
Great all round movie . Perfect cast .
such a beautiful movie
Ijin shooting film ini tak akan pernah diberikan pemerintah indonesia. ini dapat membangkitkan sentimen Soekarnoisme sangat ditakuti pemerintah soeharto..sama halnya ini dengan Ana and the King jodie foster pemerintah Thailand tak akan memberi ijin shooting di Thailand.hal sangat sensitif mengenai Tokoh panutan rakyat adalah yang tabu untuk dibicarakan dalam budaya asia tenggara.
In English: Heryana Pernata The Indonesian government will never give permission to shoot this film. This could arouse Soekarnoism sentiments which were greatly feared by the Soeharto government... the same thing happened with Ana and the King Jodie Foster, the Thai government would not give permission for shooting in Thailand. Very sensitive things regarding people's role models are taboo to talk about in Southeast Asian culture.
Well, Linda was so convincing as a man that I did not know that she really was a woman until I watched this video.
Go😍mel
When I saw the movie, I thought Linda Hunt was a masculine woman. It was still really well done!
Socialism plus Islam, what a peaceful combination. I'm so glad both ideologies have changed so much that no one lives in fear of death threats or mass murder in the name of Mohammed or Marx today.
(monumental levels of sarcasm)
Errand boy of capitalism and blinkered mentality...
It was grandmother of understatements.
Loved your sarcasm.
But communism and Islam didn’t combine in that case at all. Indonesian communists tried to take lands and dessacralized mosques and Muslims murdered them all. “Proudly 3 million” and General Sarwo Eddhie once said.
Killing in the name of extremisms… surely a thing of the past…
Watching interviews with Mel Gibson, he changed when he went to Hollywood. He seemed sterner and more serious
In retrospect given the Bali bombing although that happened much later they made the right call to hightail it off to the Philippines instead! The music did a lot for the film too as it does for the very films and makes me think of Blade Runner even though it's a different composer.
THE BEST!!
Could they not just have cast an Indonesian actor rather than an American actress?
In this day and age transgender people are pretty prevalent. What’s to say she couldn’t be a real transgender person in the film? I live in Taiwan now and there are a lot of people walking around that I’m not sure what sex they are. Transgenderisim is real. It would have added an interesting twist if they had of been ahead of the curve or times.
I wonder what he did to his right hand?
I think it was a pub brawl.
@@johnhanrahansmoviestarintervie why does that not surprise me...🤪
@@johnhanrahansmoviestarintervieماهي أصول ميل غيبسون أيرلندية أو ستكلندية
It's funny how small his head looks next to Sigourney's 😂
Great movie. But there was real fear of the Communists in Indonesia. They dressed up as government officials and rounded up a lot of Generals telling them they were going to meet with the President. they executed them and buried them in a mass grave. The movie while fantastic, but they kind of left that part out.
Peter Weir, was not able to be talk about the film in a positive way.
Hi Jim, can you explain why?
Too short for that title. The sexiest man alive was coined… tall, dark and handsome, for a good reason.
expensive? half million dollars? lol ........dude...you have no idea what´s that be like in 2024 lol
Strange and odd movie really. A good cast and story but really needed better film editing and sound plus pacing. Weaver , Gibson and support cast were effective but Linda Hunt is a woman and did come across as female. Should have cast a small male instead. Is fairly slow in pacing that needed more of everything but finally gets to the finnish line in last half hour to escape and get the hell out of there but most of it drags for major portions in the movie.
Perhaps you have a short attention span. This film is a masterpiece.
@@thedudeabides3930 I can find nothing wrong with this film..a masterpiece.
No shame only shiteating nothing else