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2020-01-05 Home Front: Culture Wars
Director Terry Gilliam: I'm Tired of White Men Being Blamed for Everything Wrong with the World
[Breitbart] In an interview that breaks every rule of the Hollywood PR handbook, iconoclastic filmmaker Terry Gilliam said that white men are unfairly blamed for everything that is wrong in the world and that the #MeToo movement has become a witch hunt as well as an excuse for some women to avoid taking responsibility for poor decisions.

Gilliam, who is a Monty Python veteran and has directed such visionary movies as Brazil and 12 Monkeys, gave an incendiary interview to the British newspaper the Independent in which he refused to kneel at the altar of political correctness and woke identity politics.

At one point, he jokingly referred to himself as a "black lesbian in transition."

Gilliam was supposed to be promoting his latest move The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, starring Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce. But the filmmaker barely spoke about the movie and instead held forth on the current cultural climate.

His pronouncements were clearly too much for the reporter to handle, who took to Twitter to express her displeasure with him.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-05 01:05|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 Just wait until they get tired of being tired of it and get just plain mad.
Posted by DarthVader 2020-01-05 01:54||   2020-01-05 01:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Gilliam said that white men are unfairly blamed for everything that is wrong in the world and that the #MeToo movement has become a witch hunt as well as an excuse for some women to avoid taking responsibility for poor decisions.
Posted by Fairbanks 2020-01-05 02:04||   2020-01-05 02:04|| Front Page Top

#3 gave an incendiary interview

See - The Emperor has no clothes (telling the truth which is now radical)
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-01-05 02:36||   2020-01-05 02:36|| Front Page Top

#4 White woman guilty too?😀
Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-01-05 05:07||   2020-01-05 05:07|| Front Page Top

#5  an incendiary interview

Correct - because disagreeing with lefty talking points is 'incendiary'. If Gilliam was trashing Trump, he'd be speaking 'truth to power' or some such bullshit.
Posted by Raj 2020-01-05 07:51||   2020-01-05 07:51|| Front Page Top

#6 The reviews for the yet unreleased movie are destined to be terrible.
Posted by Dron66046 2020-01-05 08:28||   2020-01-05 08:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Oh it's already out.
Posted by Dron66046 2020-01-05 08:29||   2020-01-05 08:29|| Front Page Top

#8 And what, pray tell, have white men had to do with everything that's right with the world?
Posted by AlanC 2020-01-05 08:34||   2020-01-05 08:34|| Front Page Top

#9 sad, as he's been trying to make this movie for 20 years or so if I remember correctly. there's test screenings with Johnny Depp playing the lead IIRC.

now it will be destroyed before it even gets out the gate
Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-01-05 09:47||   2020-01-05 09:47|| Front Page Top

#10 "incendiary"

SS newspeak.

Up = down, night = day
Posted by Lex 2020-01-05 11:07||   2020-01-05 11:07|| Front Page Top

#11 Former Monty Python star Terry Gilliam slams #MeToo as a witch hunt, complains he's 'tired of white men being blamed for everything’ and calls Harvey Weinstein's victims 'adults who made choices'
Posted by Skidmark 2020-01-05 11:24||   2020-01-05 11:24|| Front Page Top

#12 Wow. Signs of intelligent life in Hollywood.

Gilliam speaks truth (and must be punished for it) -- some refreshingly honest remarks by him:

"‘One [of my two women film producers] was a really good producer, and the other was a neurotic b***h. It wasn’t about their sex. It was about the position of power and how people use it.’

Gilliam then says he spoke to a famous actor recently. The topic of conversation was #MeToo.

‘She has got her story of being in the room and talking her way out,’ he said. ‘She says, “I can tell you all the girls who didn’t, and I know who they are and I know the bumps in their careers.”
Posted by Lex 2020-01-05 11:36||   2020-01-05 11:36|| Front Page Top

#13 ^ Gwyneth Paltrow = Weinstein-shtupee, bumped up beyond her talent
Posted by Lex 2020-01-05 11:37||   2020-01-05 11:37|| Front Page Top

#14 I never got a tattoo, never felt bad I didn't. Now that my un-defaced skin is worse than a swastika to many I'm all set...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-01-05 11:51||   2020-01-05 11:51|| Front Page Top

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