The funny opening scene

Rating: 8/10 (5 July 2013)

In the opening of the movie, Mel Gibson can't make a decent rocking chair. He made many attempts, always ending up in failure.
I like this scene, and always think that this was quite creative in portraying a former war-hero.
Yet, recently, I found that probably another movie gave Mel Gibson the inspiration for this opening.
Just watch Unforgiven (1992), look at how clumsy the former William Munny was in separating his hogs, :-) By the way, in the very beginning of The Patriot (2000), Captain Martin put his weapons used in the last war into a box, to bury his "sinful" past. In Unforgiven (1992), East Clintwood talked about his passed-away wife, when Schofield Kid came to invite him for a bounty-hunter. William Munny said that his wife cured him of drunkenness and wickedness. Note the parallel here.