Expressing an opinion that deviates from the orthodoxy is guaranteed to get you into trouble. Terry Gilliam suggested that #metoo was in danger of becoming a witch hunt. So what did he say that was so awful that he must now be condemned?
“I think some people did very well out of meeting with Harvey and others didn’t. The ones who did, knew what they were doing. These are adults; we are talking about adults with a lot of ambition.”
He continued: “It’s like when mob rule takes over, the mob is out there, they are carrying their torches and they are going to burn down Frankenstein’s castle. It’s crazy how simplified things are becoming.”
He also pointed out that Matt Damon’s comments about not all men are rapists was perfectly reasonable.
The backlash was inevitable, though.
Ellen Barkin has hit out at Terry Gilliam after his controversial remarks about the #MeToo and Time’s Up movement.
The Animal Kingdom star posted a cryptic message to Twitter which read: “My hard-won advice: never get into an elevator alone with [Terry Gilliam].”
While Barkin – who starred in the directors 1998 film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – didn’t elaborate, it’s incited discussion on social media.
She branded Gilliam “the last man to admonish a movement that is trying to protect women from abusive men” just days after the Monty Python star stated his belief that the #MeToo movement had transformed into “mob rule.” His words sent shockwaves through Hollywood with figures including Sarah Silverman and Judd Apatow criticising the filmmaker.
I’m sorry, but what is that supposed to mean? If Barkin has a specific allegation to make, then she should make it and be damned. Otherwise this is merely an attempt at smearing someone who has dared to criticise what is very clearly a witch hunt.
And we get Asia Argento being disgusted. By what? Someone daring to voice an opinion that disagrees with her narrative?
Actress Asia Argento has criticised Monty Python star Terry Gilliam after he compared the #MeToo movement to “mob rule”.
The Italian actress and filmmaker, herself a Harvey Weinstein accuser, said she was “disgusted” by the Monty Python member’s controversial remarks in which he suggested the anti-sexual harassment campaign had led to a “world of victims”.
Well, yes, sometimes the truth is painful – it is mob rule, it is a witch hunt. And what Gilliam has spoken is indeed, the truth. Those guys at Salem were amateurs compared to this lot.
She revealed the pair shared the same director of photography, Nicola Pecorini, adding: “I hope Gilliam hasn’t forgotten how Weinstein hated Nicola’s cinematography (he considered it too dark) and how the monster subsequently fired him.
She added: “Gilliam went on shooting his shit.”
So now we have guilt by association. The vile McCarthy would be proud that Hollywood has learned from the lessons he so painfully inflicted upon them.
Earlier, director Judd Apatow labelled Gilliam’s comments “idiotic and dangerous”.
Why? Evidence, please? How is expressing an opinion dangerous?
“He wasn’t in those rooms. He doesn’t know how aggressive and violent and terrifying he (Weinstein) was. Who is he to say it was some sort of offered deal? He should be ashamed of himself,” Apatow wrote on Twitter.
Irrelevant. He hasn’t said anything that contradicts this. He has perfectly reasonably criticised the movement that has since sprung up that is seeking to treat all men as if we are Weinsteins when we are clearly nothing of the sort. He also supported Matt Damon’s perfectly reasonable point, for which he was condemned as a heretic, that we are not all abusers and rapists – not even potentially. And this is “dangerous”? And he should be ashamed? Fuck you, frankly.
A lot of the Me too movement is based on jealousy. They did not get what they think was their share of the action.
This is classic post-modernism. Evidence you see only supports a justice system that is based on a patriarchal heirarchy, and thus is evil. Nowadays, it is consequences not intent that wins.
Mad as f*ck I know, but that it what is going on nowadays. Even a difference of opinion, no matter how slight is regarded as a “micro-aggression”
Watch Jordan Peterson on youtube for further in depth explanations of this insanity.
These #Me Too cretins are like Momentum. You can have any opinion you like as long as it agrees with theirs.Fascism in a sentence. It has, allegedly, been said that if Barkin offers you a spoon, you make sure there is nothing left on it before you stir your coffee. And who the hell is Asia Argento, but someone who became famous for showing her tits on screen and simulating orgasms.
About this Asia Argento: please go on.
Classics such as Dracula 3d, Rosa Mesquida and The Last Kiss. I suppose you have to start somewhere.
Never heard of any of them, nor her until this.
Better advice would be; Never get into an elevator alone with anyone you suspect supports #meToo
Better advice would be; Never get into an elevator alone with anyone you suspect supports #meToo
EVEN better advice; Never get into a lift with anyone who eats mung beans, sushi and raw vegetables in their lunch break #eyesWater
Although not all of the victims were adults, so he is technically wrong on that point. You have to ask yourself, knowing what we know now; would you leave your teenage daughter alone in a casting call with Weinstein?
I certainly wouldn’t leave my teenage son alone in an elevator with any of the metoo crowd
You’d never think that a main plank of Sarah Silverman’s stage show used to be jokes about rape would you? #MeToo!