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Terry Gilliam Says #MeToo Movement Has Transformed Into 'Mob Rule' [Film Director/Monty Python Guy]
Variety ^ | 3.16.18 | K Chuba

Posted on 03/16/2018 1:48:03 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper

Director Terry Gilliam is speaking out against the #MeToo movement, saying that in Hollywood, “mob rule takes over; the mob is out there, they are carrying their torches and they are going to burn down Frankenstein’s castle.” In a an interview with AFP on Friday, the filmmaker, a member of the comedy group Monty Python, specifically went after Harvey Weinstein’s alleged victims, and said, “Harvey opened the door for a few people, a night with Harvey — that’s the price you pay.”

“It is a world of victims. I think some people did very well out of meeting with Harvey and others didn’t,” he added. “The ones who did, knew what they were doing. These are adults...

The “Brazil” and “12 Monkeys” director also defended Matt Damon, who received public backlash in January for suggesting there were levels of sexual harassment, saying that touching someone’s butt is different than rape...

Despite describing the #MeToo movement as “simplistic” and “silly,” he still said Weinstein was “a monster”...

A British citizen, the director also took jabs at Trump in the interview...

(Excerpt) Read more at variety.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: feminism; film; hollywood; liberals; metoo; terrygilliam
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Guy is a lib but got some stuff right here.

He is old and not that active, though. He'll get a pass.

And Matt Damon is still a jerk even though he is right on the point about harassment.

1 posted on 03/16/2018 1:48:03 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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saying that touching someone’s butt is different than rape...

And here I didn't think I would ever agree with Matt Damon on anything.


2 posted on 03/16/2018 1:52:28 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SoFloFreeper

the real reason matt damon is going to austrailia... his sexual harassment case.


3 posted on 03/16/2018 1:54:35 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Cardinal Fang moves well for a man of his age.


4 posted on 03/16/2018 1:54:44 PM PDT by Sooth2222 (Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.")
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To: SoFloFreeper

Mr. Gilliam just painted a huge bulls-eye on his a**.


5 posted on 03/16/2018 1:55:10 PM PDT by Spruce
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To: teeman8r

That makes sense. He might be getting away after covering for Weinstein.


6 posted on 03/16/2018 1:57:47 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: SoFloFreeper

Collectives - R - Us are always about the gang/mob...and yes they want to rule over you.


7 posted on 03/16/2018 1:59:32 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Sooth2222

Biggles. Ha,ha… Biggles.


8 posted on 03/16/2018 2:00:46 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: Sooth2222

Gilliam renounced his US citizenship years ago for reasons that remain murky. For likewise mysterious reasons he is apparently limited to a 30-day stay when he comes to the U.S. (the typical British Subject can stay for up to six months).


9 posted on 03/16/2018 2:00:56 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Why’d you do that to me? You put that name out there....Matt do do Damon. I was eating. lol


10 posted on 03/16/2018 2:06:38 PM PDT by ssfromla
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To: Spruce

11 posted on 03/16/2018 2:07:01 PM PDT by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Put her in the comfy chair.


12 posted on 03/16/2018 2:07:34 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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the real reason matt damon is going to austrailia... his sexual harassment case.

So he needs to be pure for a few until this gets swept under the rug?

If they hate conservatives so much and we're such peasants why when they're in trouble they try to get us to like them, be there best buddies, tell everyone how we think old boy Matt may have changed his attitude?

Nope. Not anymore Matt. No more of this thinking that we'll let you in and off the hook with just a head nod or two to acknowledge you've changed.

It has to be declared like conservatives who leave the plantation have to do before the left. On your knees in front of as many cameras you can find and throw as many leftists under the bus as possible.


13 posted on 03/16/2018 2:13:12 PM PDT by ssfromla
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To: SoFloFreeper

So has the church of Political Correctness declared anathema on him and excommunicated him as a heretic yet?


14 posted on 03/16/2018 2:20:27 PM PDT by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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Sorry Terry. You helped create this monster with all the Lib sanctimony that you directed at conservatives and those “stuffy” Christians who you mocked. Now the monster is turning on your buddies in the entertainment industry and you want it to stop. That’s not the way it works. The monster won’t stop until everyone is dead.


15 posted on 03/16/2018 2:23:37 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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“Harvey opened the door for a few people, a night with Harvey — that’s the price you pay.”

I wonder if men would speak so cavalierly if that was the price THEY had to pay for a job in Hollywood!


16 posted on 03/16/2018 2:36:05 PM PDT by Twotone
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How do you know they didnt?


17 posted on 03/16/2018 2:44:53 PM PDT by proust ("The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.")
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To: SoFloFreeper

Unfortunately, it is probably because he’s got skeletons in his closet - rather than any ethical stand.


18 posted on 03/16/2018 3:01:31 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Twotone; proust; All

I read an interview with former Western Film star, Lash LaRue, a number of years ago. The interviewer asked him what happened to his film career, since it seemed that he dropped off the radar quite suddenly.

LaRue stated that he had refused to let Hollywood BigShots bugger him (literally). He said that if you wanted to make it big in Hoolywood, and then keep your status, you had to submit to the powerful; men had to submit, as well as women.

He refused and that ended his career.

At least that was his story.


19 posted on 03/16/2018 3:11:16 PM PDT by ChicagahAl (I am Henry Bowman. You should be, too.)
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The left - deranged from Trump hatred - set up ‘me too’ as a scam to ‘catch Trump’... little did they know left-wing perv/jerks live in glass houses.

Now they're crying in their beer... wine... stash or whatever...

Hey lefties - we don't care about your sluts... or victims or thugs... just leave the rest of us alone. Oh and take your ‘art’ and shove it. Don't worry - Deep State criminals will back you... and we'll support making California it's very own hellholes. Yep it's very own country - a place of predatory ‘elites’ and very poor peasants - as long as you take the illegals... all of em.

In twelve years uber poor Californians will be trying to break into the United States so one condition is you'll have a build a Wall - - but then it's all yours.

Go for it left-wing monsters... you're very own hellhole is within reach.

20 posted on 03/16/2018 3:13:45 PM PDT by GOPJ (Blaming the NRA for what liberals have caused. - freeper I want the USA back)
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