It’s almost like “cancel culture” isn’t really how the world works
Anon is baffled by Mel Gibson's continued career
Submitted 10 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 10 months ago
fern@lemmy.autism.place 10 months ago
He lost half of this net worth before coming back, I think it did work until the industry let him back in and people forgot (or till the republicans picked anti-woke actors to support in Hollywood).
boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 10 months ago
LORD HE IS SPEAKING BLASPHEMY IN THE TEMPLE
workerONE@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is Mel Gibson’s father, check out the “beliefs” section en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_Gibson#:~:text=Hut….
idiomaddict@feddit.de 10 months ago
How do they have so much energy? Man filed for divorce at 93 years old
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Copious amounts of alcohol and cocaine.
blazeknave@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Mel Gibson is just a plantation owner’s greatgrandson from Westchester?
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I don’t know what to believe anymore, now the Jews did 911? Wasn’t it Bush?
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It was the Saudis. Apparently, the Jewish Saudis.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Because how cancelled you get is inversely related to how much money you’re worth (and make other people.)
Illuminostro@lemmy.world 10 months ago
[deleted]Skates@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Man I wish something I did had 10 award nominations and people still said my career crashed and burned.
III@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hey, the production company who made that movie paid good money for those awards. The rich aren’t going to let something like on of their fellow rich guys being exposed as a racist stop them from getting the independent, merit based awards they paid for.
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s because Danny Glover and him saved us from some real bad dudes back in the day.
sirico@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Now he’s too old for this shit
Illuminostro@lemmy.world 10 months ago
[deleted]hitmyspot@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I’m too old for this shit
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Anon learns about Hollywood
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
He got temp banned, not perma-banned, because bad words and opinions can change, apologies can be made. It’s fixable.
kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Whether or not he was temp-cancelled or perma-cancelled, Apocalypto is a fucking masterpiece
pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
So interesting that you mentioned this film because when it was new to the rental market I watched it, and it was around this time that Mel had weird bigoted events in the news. I was indifferent and mostly ignorant of exactly what he did, and even so, I was skeptical and doubtful as well.
However, we liked Apocalypto so much that we started rewatching it with the director’s commentary. Mel was such a fucking ass that he ruined our enjoyment of the movie. He was incredibly disrespectful of the actors in the commentary. He was not so much disparaging of them, but he effectively communicated how unimportant they were to him and how they were nothing more than disposable objects to him.
Then I recalled those vague bad things I had heard about him in the press, and I thought, “Hmmm. Maybe this guy is a vile piece of shit.”
On the other hand, disturbed fuckheads can make great art. There might be good reason that in the old days, artists were kept on a leash by wealthy families.
Leg@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Apocalypto is my biggest case for using death of the author to enjoy creative works. I don’t like the guy, but that movie is a must-watch.
idiomaddict@feddit.de 10 months ago
There’s no greater mismatch of internal and external beauty in my mind than Braveheart-era Mel Gibson. I’m straight up ashamed of how handsome I find him. The hatred did not age him well, however, which is a relief.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 10 months ago
His only supporters are fellow racists.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
What’s the “most antisemitic film” they’re referring to?
sum_yung_gai@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Probably “Passion of the Christ”. It was really hard to watch, didn’t make it to the end.
blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I still remember part of a review I saw when this was new. It said:
Jesus suffered for our sins. Now its your turn.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Hard to watch? Other than the obvious brutality of the crucifixion, I remember that movie as being a middle of the road flick. The Aramaic dialogue was pretty cool though.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The church I was forced to go to as a child did a whole youth group and parents trip to the movies to see it. Thought it was pretty interesting the stuff I wasn’t allowed to watch, but that torture porn feature was a-OK for the kiddies.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Ah, haven’t seen it. I was teenager when it came out, my fundamentalist parents were praising it but didn’t allow me to watch it because of the 18+ rating in Finland. Never bothered to watch it later in life
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I was Catholic at the time of its release. My church was literally giving away tickets so people could see it. I swear the Catholic Church is 1 giant circlejerk of virtue signaling trying to see who can suffer the most.
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
My parents forced me to watch it I think right before I entered my teens, in theatre.
They had not even noticed that after the flogging scene, I started crying and having a panic attack and walked out of the theatre, just sat outside the theatre, sobbing after being completely fucking traumatized.
Again, they didn’t even realize I was gone until the movie was over.
Can you guess that I don’t talk to my parents any more, they probably think I am dead, and I hope they do actually believe I am dead?
tuoret@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I mean it’s a shit movie but it’s not exactly Jud Süss
HawlSera@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Isn’t he basically not even allowed to say anything that even rhymes with Mad Max?
Taniwha420@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ahhh … Clever lawyers. Put in a clause to prevent an Aussie from using rhyming slang.
CarbonAlpine@lemmy.world 9 months ago
For real? Why? What happened??
HawlSera@lemm.ee 9 months ago
He played Mad Max, but after it came out he was racist, the IP Holders put the movie franchise on hold for decades and when it came back it was largely about Furiosa instead of Max himself and the actor was changed. With director commentary basically saying “We kept Gibson the fuck away from this.”
joyjoy@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Somehow, we were allowed to watch this movie in 8th grade.
adhocfungus@midwest.social 10 months ago
For a second I thought you meant that you watched Hacksaw Ridge in class.
joyjoy@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I must be confused, because apparently that movie actually came out in 2016.
Wanderer@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Wasn’t this a time when Jews were downplaying how much influence they have in Hollywood elsewhere because of Weinstein and such?
Seems to come and go in waves. Seems to be picking back up with the Gaza invasion.
Where’s that news article from some Jewish guy from while back saying “people say we own Hollywood. Of course we do”. Or some shit like that.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I think it’s more likely that antisemitism comes and goes in waves. Right now it’s trending upwards as evidenced by you casually promoting antisemitic conspiracies and getting upvoted for it.
And you can spare me the rationalization over how if you mention Gaza it’s not antisemitism. You’re promoting conspiracies about American Jews not Israelis here, so it is antisemitic.
Wanderer@lemm.ee 10 months ago
How is that a conspiracy theory exactly?
I’m saying people who are Jewish sometimes talk a lot about being Jewish and Jews in general and sometimes they don’t.
When that movie came out I don’t remember people talking about how they are Jewish. Before and after that period I remember more people in the news talking about being Jewish.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Seems to come and go in waves.
Historically that’s been called pogroms.
They Xians were doing it before Islam was even a thing. But Xians also love to kill Jewish people on their way to kill Muslims. Israel or not Xians just fucking love killing Jewish people.
Even crazier than that folks like Shakespeare are criticized for his antisemitic Jewish character in the Merchant of Venice. Shakespeare likely never met a Jewish person as they were expelled from England during his entire life.
Wanderer@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I think you are literally talking about the opposite of what I’m talking about.
timewarp@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I too find it weird… some comedians can make jokes about Jews and people laugh. Others do it and get canceled.
SirDerpy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
He wasn’t laughing with Jews about the overbearing kindness of their mothers. If you say the quiet part out loud then you’re of little use in sustaining and increasing profits. It’s easier to burn witches acknowledge the quiet part said out loud.
This isn’t rocket science. It’s apathy, an incarnation of MLK’s white moderate.
MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
He was inoculated before the wave of cancelations hit. Like chicken pox.
CaptSatelliteJack@lemy.lol 9 months ago
Baffles Christiandom by continuing to act
psmgx@lemmy.world 10 months ago
He was cancelled, and was out of the industry for years.
He then kissed the ring, did the mea culpa, and got lucky making a pacifist WW2 movie. If that film tanked, or he didn’t kiss all of the asses, he’d still be out of business.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The reality is that being “cancelled” isn’t a huge deal when you’re already one of the economic elite. He didn’t even do a mea culpa, he just came back to the party and shrugged.
Delphia@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Not even the economic elite, just A list of some description.
Once your a big name you might have to take less money but someone somewhere will think you are a value proposition eventually.
Anamnesis@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s a pretty decent film, if a little heavy on the religious message.
vorpuni@jlai.lu 10 months ago
I thought the religious part wasn’t forced or strange considering the real story.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I disagree. Yes, the protaganist had religous motivations for his actions, but that doesn’t mean the film itself has a religous message.
AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
I thought my friend had tricked me into watching a romance movie up until they got on the ridge and a dude got cut in half with bullets. I was not expecting that