03-20-2018, 05:29 PM
(03-20-2018, 07:49 AM)bruttenholm Wrote: I don't care if he's nice or not... The fact is that prominent figures of the film industry all join in to violently criticize Gilliam an nobody stepped up to defend him. Whether it is Rian Johnson, Neil Gaiman or Guillermo Del Toro, Gilliam has numerous beloved famous fans active on twitter but not a single one said or wrote something in his favor. Which means Gilliam is radioactive at this point, nobody wants to have anything to do with him. So good luck for this reputation to not taint the release of his future film.
Obviously I was being flippant there. I feel the same way you do.
I suspect with the line about not liking victims he means that in a quote-unquote kind of way. People wanting to identify as a victim and be praised for it when in reality they are anything but. There is a marked difference between those seeking attention/jumping on a bandwagon and people who have actually suffered abuse. It's bandwagon activism and public shaming of those who say the wrong thing that he is against, I think, not those who have genuinely been exploited. He just expressed it in a clumsy and totally clueless way, which is all those who like to vilify others on social media needed to get the ball rolling.