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MATT WARREN. "Mad Mel's Lethal Weapons." The Scotsman. ECM Publishers, Inc. 2000. HighBeam Research. 28 Mar. 2015 <http://www.highbeam.com>.
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Mel's at it again. Starring in the American Revolution epic, The Patriot, Gibson once more plays the peace-loving farmer driven to arms by perfidious British forces. In fact, The Patriot has Gibson bearing more arms than ever before. Disinclined to face the British Army with a single firearm, Gibson's character, Benjamin Martin, takes to the field with four muskets, a horn-handled dagger and hatchet.
Gibson found fame as the archetypal gunslinger, Max Rockatansky, in the eponymous sci-fi gorefest Mad Max, and since then his finger has rarely been far from the trigger. Brandishing a double- barrelled sawn-off shotgun in the 1979 publicity poster, Max rarely made an appearance without either his trusted firearm or his Ford Falcon XB V8 coup, which he also used to deadly effect. …
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