He was cancelled, and was out of the industry for years.
He then kissed the ring, did the mea culpa, and got lucky making a pacifist WW2 movie. If that film tanked, or he didn’t kiss all of the asses, he’d still be out of business.
The reality is that being “cancelled” isn’t a huge deal when you’re already one of the economic elite. He didn’t even do a mea culpa, he just came back to the party and shrugged.
Not even the economic elite, just A list of some description.
Once your a big name you might have to take less money but someone somewhere will think you are a value proposition eventually.
I disagree. Yes, the protaganist had religous motivations for his actions, but that doesn’t mean the film itself has a religous message.
It’s almost like “cancel culture” isn’t really how the world works
This is Mel Gibson’s father, check out the “beliefs” section https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_Gibson#:~:text=Hutton Peter Gibson (August%2026,actor%20and%20director%20Mel%20Gibson.
I don’t know what to believe anymore, now the Jews did 911? Wasn’t it Bush?
Because how cancelled you get is inversely related to how much money you’re worth (and make other people.)
Say what you want about Mel Gibson, but the son of a bitch knows story structure.
Oh, he’s cancelled. His career crashed, and burned. Hard.
Man I wish something I did had 10 award nominations and people still said my career crashed and burned.