10 Movies With Surprising Real World Consequences
3. Catching A Murderer - The Passion Of The Christ
Mel Gibson - nothing else to add, just Mel Gibson.
If you don't know about his various transgressions over the years, then please kindly return to the rock you have been living under until you've learned your lesson.
One of his more famous crazy ideas was making the biblical epic The Passion of the Christ in 2004, a film depicting the final twelve hours of Jesus' life.
Yeah, that seems like a safe bet for a man who has a history of religious controversies...
Anyway, the film got made and it was, of course, controversial. However, there was at least one good thing to come from it - it helped solve a murder case.
In early 2004, 19-year-old Ashley Nicole Wilson was found dead in her apartment in Texas. She had apparently hanged herself after coming off anti-depression medication, but in reality, her boyfriend Dan R. Leach had killed her and staged it to look like a suicide.
He was going to get away with the crime, until a viewing of The Passion of the Christ caused him to have an epiphany and turn himself in.
Maybe Gibson isn't so bad after all... nah, he is.