Ok Think Progress, thank you for introducing me to Playboys style of journalism, its certainly not among my usual reads. I guess a lot of readers notice the squiggles beside the fun pictures, but thank you and many other sites for telling me how bad these ones were. And this next tirade may well get me removed and blocked as a result. I accept that, its your platform and therefore your rules, you have the right to prevent me using it in a way you dont wish. And if youve read all that and still want to continue, the tl;drs arent really my fault. So this is the transcript of the interview Gary Oldman is being called a bigot for on tonights social media and blog sites, I leave it up instead of copy-pasting it as Im sure playboy are quite confident keeping it posted. But commentators - rather playing into his point arent you? I mean, you focus on a couple of paragraphs in the transcript that appear on page 4 of a 5 page transcript and nothing else. Lets pretend for now the jury is still out on whether Gary Oldman is a bigot or not, I know, he said the things that get you going, but lets just pretend for a minute and sit down to read the rest of the interview. It reads like... a man who has been acting a great many more years than many people can claim to have done. It reads like a man who has accomplished the dreams of 3, 5, 10 actors all in one person and is not satisfied, but somehow jaded by it all. This is a man who has been there, seen the craft of film-making in more lights than you can imagine, and in turn seen the media treatment of stars, this eternal game of baiting them and then selling their frustrated response as though its their genuine stance. Hang on to that sentence. So, despite it being an involving and sincere interview about a man many look up to, the hype is selectively focused upon comments defending Mel Gibsons abusive messages to his wife, defending Alec Guinnesss casual homophobic insults, use of the word fag and faggot. Read the interview again, Journalists, nowhere in it does he support Mel or Alec being in the right to say those things, in fact, he tacitly suggests its wrong for others to say them too, like cops. Read it again. Its on page 4. What he is criticising is how media will leap on one chance instant, one badly phrased remark and seize on it as though that were their true and sincere belief. And that is exactly what you, Think Progress, and a score of many others have done. As if playing to his point, you all leap up quickly and shout burn the demon! remain seated, with your incontinence pants still on, please. Yea, the true opinions of our stars might deserve exposure if theyre pretty sick, I dont think Mel Gibson was right to send any kind of abusive message like that, and despite whatever state he was in at the time, I wont excuse it. Neither do I think that Alec Baldwins casual use of the 2nd F word as Oldman puts it, is really ok. But is Gary Oldman doing these things? Is Gary Oldman really defending these things? No. Flatly, no. He is criticising how these things are viewed hysterically and the interview transcription proves this. Never once does he defend their actions, only in both their cases, does the sensible thing, politically, for hollywood, and say theyre great guys - entirely neutral, a non-comment. If youd bothered to read on to his comments about the Oscars, youd read into his attitude that this was the comment of an old man, a man whos served his time the business long enough and fed up with what he sees as bullshit, and having read the transcript more than opportunistically, I believe his comments stem from that attitude of frustration rather than thinking its ok to say itd be good if your wife got raped by a bunch of N-words. But hey, you have to focus on the sensational details if you want to get the hits to your site, dont you?
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:31:49 +0000
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