Uhhhhh... well this is embarrassing. He didn't do an ''insane'' rant. He did a BONKERS rant. Uncle Baby Billy can clear up the difference if you need more info.
The funny bit is that everyone already knew he was a far right extremist politically and religiously, it's just HOW he expresses himself that's blowing up in his face.
I don't care, man, braveheart was fucking dope. plus that's very reductive, it's a very personal story as well in many ways. there's friendship and love and :.|:; and betrayal and revenge. it really hits hard on an emotional level in so many scenes. two or three that made me cry, a number of fuck you moments and a bunch of fuck yeah moments. it has so many perfect setup and payoff arcs that more recent insanely popular media severely lacks, like breaking bad or Harry Potter.
Gibson is an absolute piece of shit but it's a shame that he's actually talented, unlike a crushing majority of them.
Until producers stop giving him money and actors refuse to work with him he'll continue spreading hate, the guy has been an obvious bigot and moron his entire life
āI separate people and their artā people are the fuckinā worst and huge part of the problem, too, since they donāt do a damn thing to incentivise those losers to stop what theyāre doing, either.
When I learned that āSweet Home Alabamaā was in bitter response to Neil Youngās āSouthern Manā I just stopped listening to it. There is so much music in the world, Iāve been fine without Lynyrd Skynyrd. I also donāt think Iāve ever seen a Mel Gibson movie and I seem to be ok.
We don't have the celebrity thing you have in the US here, so I only see bits and pieces of this, but his (and several others, really) spiralling into insanity has been quite bizarre to witness. First into extreme bizarro religion and then (predictably) into far right politics.
As is often the case, the rejection just entrenches his beliefs.
I wish I knew how people started falling into that kind of mental trap. I'm not sure he was always like that (or maybe he was, I don't know the guy).
TBF, Australia has a really big problem with racism. Against immigrants in particular.
As an American that traveled there 2 years ago on vacation, it was typical for them to ice break with "so how about them immigrants" after they found out we were American (and assumed all Americans are Texans I guess, by the stereotype they were expecting)
Not defending the guy, but he has not at all been out of work. He just hasnāt been in movie theaters nationwide. Heās been in plenty of stuff recently. John Oliver even mentioned how crazy itās been that heās been so busy despite all the racist and antisemitic rants heās had.