Mel Gibson's Racist Rant Caught On Tape (now with Audio) — Page 7

I really want to see it.

Also, I heard on the radio this morning that his ex wrote an email or tweet or something to him totally forgiving him and saying that he did nothing wrong. (her lawyers are probably kicking themselves right about now)

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^ See, that's the thing. Even if it turns out that he never laid a hand on whatshername, as long as that's actually him saying any of those things, he's still a racist piece of sh!t.

And even if it was proven that it's NOT him saying those things, he's still a homophobic piece of sh!t because I SAW him say anti-gay stuff on my friggin' TV.

The fact that a self-loathing closet case thinks he's swell doesn't change a thing.

Updated On: 9/22/10 at 10:40 AM

I suppose it could be argued that being in the closet doesn't necessarily equate with self-loathing.

But I'll never forget her response, at the time of "Silence of the Lambs," when she was asked on TV "Do you have anything to say to the claims that this film could provoke violence against gay people?" And she smirked (sorry, that's the only word for it) and said "Nope. Next question."

I've hated her ever since.

I don't care what he did or didn't do to her...I heard enough racist/homophobic comments spew from his ugly mouth over the years that I know I wouldn't ever be able to suffer through another one of his movies.

I actually agree, Roscoe. I just was infuriated by her smirking, cavalier attitude.

Maybe I overreacted, but it was my honest response at the time.

Well, again I agree.

So I should have said "cowardly" in my original post, instead of "self-loathing."

^ You're right, of course, and even as much as I dislike her (and I do), I've never forgotten that fact.

Still doesn't change my response to her response. But I have certainly thought about that when considering her reluctance to open up about her private life at all.

Ghost, the homophobic content in BRAVEHEART comes from the depiction of Edward Longshank's ghastly effeminate son Edward II, who is presented as a mincing whining cartoon of total ineffectuality, a symbol of British decadence, as opposed to the virile manly manliness of Sir William Wallace's Scottish rebels who just can't wait to put on skirts and makeup and run onto the battlefield so they can stick REALLY BIG SWORDS into other men.

It gets really offensive after a while, most awfully during the scene where Edward Longshanks tosses his son's boyfriend out a window to his death.

Basically, BRAVEHEART was the most cluelessly homophobic major release until Zack Snyder's revolting 300 came along.

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"as opposed to the virile manly manliness of Sir William Wallace's Scottish rebels who just can't wait to put on skirts and makeup and run onto the battlefield so they can stick REALLY BIG SWORDS into other men. "

After presenting their bare bums to them. Yep, it's all coming back to me now, Roscoe.

I had rented BRAVEHEART as soon as it came out, Roscoe, and watched it only once, multitasking as I watched, but OMG, how on earth could I forget that? I do remember all that now, and how horrified I was by the defenestration scene in particular. I was so glad to see a depiction of the era of Scottish history I guess my memory went selective. Thanks for the reminder, Roscoe.

BRAVEHEART is one deeply screwed up movie. It makes BLUE VELVET look like an episode of BARNEY.

As for JFK, Garrison went after the gay guys, and Oliver Stone had them all play it up to the point where it became this weird gay plot to overthrow our Shining Hetero Hero. I'll admit to enjoying Tommy Lee Jones, though. That bit where he stares down Kevin Costner, asking, "Can I go now?"

And then Stone did it again in NIXON, with a really out there version of J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson. All these homo-villains.

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Updated On: 9/22/10 at 12:40 PM

I have always kind of respected Jodie because even thought she has never been out-out, she's never been in either. She didn't do the Hollywood norm of marrying a beard and having children. She's always been involved with a woman and just refused to talk about it. I hate that she dumped her lady for a younger model as seems to be the Hollywood way. lol

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Re: JFK, I do like the movie and I never got that Stone was being homophobic. I mean the whole movie is one vast conspiracy theory in which pretty much everyone is reduced to a streotype.

I agree that Sutherland was mesmerizing. As was Jones.

Braveheart was a mess. Tonally uneven and unforgivably manipulative. All that bluster meant to stir emotion came off as ersatz and campy to me. Granted I saw it on dvd so perhaps the big screen enhanced the experience.
And the portrayal of the gay character was cheap and lazy.

As far as Jodie goes, I don't have the same visceral dislike that you have Reg, but that's probably b/c I just don't care about her. She's always struck me as a decent person who preferred to keep her private life private. I took her dismissal of gay issues as a move that her publiscist devised to avoid her being embroiled in issues that would inevitably lead to closer scrutiny.

I don't think she was being dismissive of the potential for gay violence or that such violence is awful, rather she was being dismissive of the fact that people were making Silence out to be a homophobic movie.

I have wondered however how she reconciles Mel's virulent homophobia with her friendship.

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Updated On: 9/22/10 at 02:19 PM

That could be true. And a very "Hollywood" mindset at that.

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