Originally Posted By DAR <a href="http://rr.com/entertainment/topic/article/rr/7392519/15598867/Website_says_Gibson_rant_audio_not_the_last_word" target="_blank">http://rr.com/entertainment/to...ast_word</a> Which is a shame because he seems to be throwing away his career. I think the rest of his career would have largely focused on directing and he is a great director but he seems to have some serious issues. I hope he can get the help he needs.
Originally Posted By Labuda What sort of help do you think exists for a person like him who is a misogynistic bigot?
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan More tape released today, this one worst than the first. Were he in any other line of work, it'd be an easy call that his career would be a memory. But in the motion picture business, Roman Polanski is adored, so who knows.
Originally Posted By Ursula Polanski is not adored by me. And I refuse to spend money on Woddy Allen movies, too. I just can't see anyone idolizing Gibson any longer. It isn't like he's a drug addict (ala Drew Barrymore) who has any redeeming qualities. And his movies have been pretty bad lately, too.
Originally Posted By DAR It was asked how do help someone like him, well it's pretty evident he's mentally ill. And he needs to go somewhere he can get help before this ends badly and boy if the headline reads Mel Gibson and ex found dead in murder/suicide I would not be surprised.
Originally Posted By debtee It's interesting...The media over here in Sydney, has a completely different take on this. The comments I have read in the newspapers has directed the questioning to Oksana, rather then Mel. Things like.... ( this is what I have read, not my personal opinion). Why did she have a recording device in her earrings? What did she do, to create this angry environment prior to the taping starting? Why did the recording start when it did and not at the start of the argument? Why is she so calm, while he appears to be losing it? It does feel like a set up, for someone that is an extortionist. How could she release these tapes, knowing her daughter would one day listen to them? Is there no privacy left anymore? My opinion is that, he does seem to be in need of some help as there's a lot of anger there but I don't see his career as over. Maybe in America but not in the rest of the world.
Originally Posted By mele See, if I had a child with someone who punched my teeth out (twice)...I'd do WHATEVER it took to keep him away from me and my child. IMO, Mel's lucky HE isn't buried in his own damn rose garden cos he'd be toast if he hit me and talked to me like he did in these tapes. As for him being somehow "trapped"...he isn't some sweet little innocent farm boy. He's been in Hollywood for DECADES. He wanted a hot, sexy young woman on his arm. Then, as soon as he had her, he wanted her to be some prim Madonna instead of the whore he originally "fell in love with". If he was STUPID enough to fall into this woman's "trap" and to behave so very, very badly, he deserves to lose everything. What a moron. However, if you've followed any press on Mel in the past year, you could see that he has a tremendous rage problem. The things he said on these tapes were CLASSIC abuser dialog. (I lived with a man like this-my step-father. A man who had no problem punching me, a toddler, out cold while he raped my mother who was lying next to me.) Make no mistake, this man wasn't "tricked" into this behavior and this behavior is nothing new to him. This is the REAL Mel Gibson.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad <<< But in the motion picture business, Roman Polanski is adored, so who knows.>>> I just thought that this statement desreved a second look. Amen to this!
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb Don't get me started on Polanski! As for Mel, I was once a big fan but now I'm thinking of tossing my Mad Max and Lethal Weapon movies as well as any others I may have that he's starred in and/or directed. The dude has serious, rage, ego and abuse issues.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad If you start tossing out your movies, you will probably end up with a LOT less movies than you have now. Hollywood has plenty of stars, writers, directors, etc. with issues that might give you pause owning their movies if you go that route. I don't think I would go THAT far.
Originally Posted By mele I have to admit, I have considered throwing out his movies...not out of any sort of protest. Just that seeing them in our collection will just make me mad and I'll hear his words and see his angry face. Just sickening. I won't watch his movies anymore so why let them take up valuable, albeit teeny, space in my home? Bad mojo.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad Now that's actually a better reason. If you aren't going to watch them, why keep them? Fair enough. Of course all of this is just IMHO. 2 cents worth.
Originally Posted By mele I mean, I feel as if seeing them would make me feel negative emotions so it seems silly to keep them around. I'm new-agey that way. ;-)
