Mel Gibson

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Still though, extreme anti-semitism makes a person racist. I love how a few folks imply it's all just the Jews being pissed off with him that's causing a drop in his popularity, as opposed to, you know, the man's actual behaviour himself. There's some shocking anti-semitism/anti semitism apologism out there (and I'm very anti Israeli occupation of Palestine btw).
He was also going on about hoping a bunch of n***ers would rape that woman too, so I do wonder whether Danny Glover actually still is good friends with him.

When the first tape came out and all the other crap, Glover responded when asked about his friendship with Gibson with, “I love Mel. That’s my friend.” He also spoke about how he had talked to Gibson during the whole furor and how they are eager to work together again.

I don't think that Gibson's popularity has dropped all the much. Granted he gets dragged through the mud and some people won't work with him but he got nothing but great reviews for his role in Get the Gringo and it did extremely well on VOD and in theaters around the world and every review talked about how charismatic and bloody good Gibson was. If Lethal Weapon 5 goes ahead you can almost guarantee that it'll be a hit, especially if the rumors that Shane Black has submitted a script are true.

As for the Jews and those who run Hollywood being annoyed with Gibson, well let's be honest. If a studio head thought that he could make a quick buck by hiring a known pedophile to direct a film about how much fun rape is, then they probably would go right ahead and do it. The fact that Victor Salva, the director of Jeepers Creepers has a career tells you all you need to know about the film industry and how it views the elements of society that are generally despised.

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Ah now, the stuff he says to that woman is scary, very intimidating and to be taken seriously as something that could lead to violence - and the manner in which he says it, deranged. I think there's enough to go on, really.

The problem with all the tapes released is that it's one sided. We have no idea just what the other person said or did. Was Gibson responding in kind to abuse being hurled at him. I'm not defending Gibson but at the same time would like to hear all of the conversations and not just the bits that make him out to be as big a monster as possible.

The whole Joe Eszterhas thing stinks of Eszterhas being petty and trying to get his own back. It seems strange to me that a man would endure so much hate and abuse and yet, continue to work with such a monster. Notice that it was only after Warner Bros. passed on Eszterhas script and Gibson decided not to finance it himself, that Joe took to recording conversations. The feud between Gibson and Eszterhas has done wonders for Eszterhas who spent the best part of the last decade doing nothing and whose script about the Maccabee's was referred to as having "no feeling" and lacking a "sense of triumph". In fact the response from everyone who read it was that it wasn't any good.

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

That said, I would say he is very unwell - and that his anger is a manifestation of this. Jodie Foster, a liberal feminist, is friends with him, bizarrely (well was up to recently anyway) and directed a film with him in it called The Beaver (childish giggle at the title) about a man struggling to cope with mental illness. It's deemed autobiographical and is supposed to be very good.

The whole, The Beaver is autobiographical is nonsense. It's a pretty standard, middle of the road Hollywood film about mental illness that hasn't anything original or interesting to say. It's exactly the kind of film that you would love to see Gibson himself direct as he's not afraid to do something outside the box whereas Foster plays it all so safe and familiar that you find yourself bored.

The problem with all the tapes released is that it's one sided. We have no idea just what the other person said or did. Was Gibson responding in kind to abuse being hurled at him.