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.
It’s almost like “cancel culture” isn’t really how the world works
Whether or not he was temp-cancelled or perma-cancelled, Apocalypto is a fucking masterpiece
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.
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.
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.
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.
Isn’t he basically not even allowed to say anything that even rhymes with Mad Max?
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.”
