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.
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.
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.
Makes me think of Tár where the conductor
spoiler
ends up conducting a video game music symphony overseas at the end
It’s a pretty decent film, if a little heavy on the religious message.
I thought the religious part wasn’t forced or strange considering the real story.
I disagree. Yes, the protaganist had religous motivations for his actions, but that doesn’t mean the film itself has a religous message.
All of his movies are religious propaganda. Sometimes propaganda just happens to have a point.
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
It’s almost like “cancel culture” isn’t really how the world works
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).
LORD HE IS SPEAKING BLASPHEMY IN THE TEMPLE
This is Mel Gibson’s father, check out the “beliefs” section https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_Gibson#:~:text=Hutton Peter Gibson (August%2026,actor%20and%20director%20Mel%20Gibson.
How do they have so much energy? Man filed for divorce at 93 years old
Copious amounts of alcohol and cocaine.
And viagra.
I don’t know what to believe anymore, now the Jews did 911? Wasn’t it Bush?
It was the Saudis. Apparently, the Jewish Saudis.
Mel Gibson is just a plantation owner’s greatgrandson from Westchester?
Because how cancelled you get is inversely related to how much money you’re worth (and make other people.)
Say what you want about Mel Gibson, but the son of a bitch knows story structure.
Oh, he’s cancelled. His career crashed, and burned. Hard.
Man I wish something I did had 10 award nominations and people still said my career crashed and burned.
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.
Anon learns about Hollywood
It’s because Danny Glover and him saved us from some real bad dudes back in the day.
Now he’s too old for this shit
“Little sumbitch’s gonna be a handful.”
I’m too old for this shit
He got temp banned, not perma-banned, because bad words and opinions can change, apologies can be made. It’s fixable.
Whether or not he was temp-cancelled or perma-cancelled, Apocalypto is a fucking masterpiece
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.
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.
What’s the “most antisemitic film” they’re referring to?
Probably “Passion of the Christ”. It was really hard to watch, didn’t make it to the end.
I still remember part of a review I saw when this was new. It said:
Jesus suffered for our sins. Now its your turn.
That’s actually a pretty metal tagline.
I dunno man I made out with a chick when I was a kid watching it. They were giving tickets out for free and we were horny and didn’t give af. My blue balls probably suffered though.
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.
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.
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
I vaguely remember a scene where Jesus invented the dining table. I must not have been paying attention and just imagined such a scene.
The whip biting into the skin on his ribs, then ripping out chunks. That was pretty intense for kids to watch.
Jesus, it really was in the movie.
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.
I mean it’s a shit movie but it’s not exactly Jud Süss
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, vomiting and having a panic attack and walked out of the theatre, just sat outside the theatre, sobbing after being completely fucking traumatized after a Christian childhood up to that point not being allowed to curse, show any kind of disrespect to anyone, having been utterly kept from anything anywhere near that viscerally violent.
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?
His only supporters are fellow racists.
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.
Somehow, we were allowed to watch this movie in 8th grade (2008).
For a second I thought you meant that you watched Hacksaw Ridge in class.
I must be confused, because apparently that movie actually came out in 2016.
Isn’t he basically not even allowed to say anything that even rhymes with Mad Max?
Ahhh … Clever lawyers. Put in a clause to prevent an Aussie from using rhyming slang.
For real? Why? What happened??
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.”
He was inoculated before the wave of cancelations hit. Like chicken pox.
