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As a Python fan, I’m not shocked by Terry Gilliam’s #MeToo comments
Though I loved the iconic comedy group growing up, their old skits were misogynist as hell
Terry Gilliam raised a lot of hackles this week with his comments about the the #MeToo scandals, decrying the movement as “mob rule” and claiming it created a “world of victims.” The director shrugged off the exploitation of women by Hollywood powerbrokers like Harvey Weinstein: “Harvey opened the door for a few people, a night with Harvey — that’s the price you pay.”
In the interview, the acclaimed director of 12 Monkeys and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas touched on other eyeroll-inducing themes of aggrieved entitlement, saying that he was “tired, as a white male, of being blamed for everything that is wrong with the world.”
I can’t say I’m actually all that surprised by any of this. I haven’t really kept up with Gilliam’s work over the years, but as an adolescent, I was a die-hard fan of Monty Python, the legendary British comedy troupe where Gilliam got his start.
