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Anon is baffled by Mel Gibson's continued career

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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.
- 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.
  
  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%20Peter%20Gibson%20(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.
- Mel Gibson is just a plantation owner's greatgrandson from Westchester?
- 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.

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.

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

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.

He got temp banned, not perma-banned, because bad words and opinions can change, apologies can be made. It's fixable.

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.

His only supporters are fellow racists.

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.
  
  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.
  
  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 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.
  
  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.
  
  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?

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.

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.
- 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.
  
  I think you are literally talking about the opposite of what I'm talking about.
- 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.
  
  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.

Baffles Christiandom by continuing to act

I too find it weird... some comedians can make jokes about Jews and people laugh. Others do it and get canceled.
- 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 than to acknowledge the quiet part said out loud.
  This isn't rocket science. It's apathy, an incarnation of MLK's white moderate.

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