"In no way was my question aggressive in the way that he responded to it," Estrada said. "These are questions that my peers, my colleagues, ask me every time I make a presentation. These are questions I pose to my students in the classroom."
March 23, 2007
Gibson can't handle truth
Gibson, Professor Trade Barbs Over FilmMel Gibson exchanged angry words with a university professor who challenged the accuracy of his film "Apocalypto" at an on-campus screening. Gibson was answering questions from the crowd at California State University, Northridge, Thursday night when Alicia Estrada, an assistant professor of Central American studies, accused the actor-director of misrepresenting the Mayan culture in the movie. Gibson directed an expletive at the woman, who was removed from the crowd.
"In no way was my question aggressive in the way that he responded to it," Estrada said. "These are questions that my peers, my colleagues, ask me every time I make a presentation. These are questions I pose to my students in the classroom."
"In no way was my question aggressive in the way that he responded to it," Estrada said. "These are questions that my peers, my colleagues, ask me every time I make a presentation. These are questions I pose to my students in the classroom."
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Writerfella here --
So, Mel Gibson becomes responsible for the disruptive behavior of audience members who used their opportunity at a public presentation for discussion as their chance to attack him and his film. The one important matter here is that the incident did not occur until then and likely will not occur later. If the woman who was removed by campus security indeed had a cogent question to ask, then why was she so removed? Or even the removal of the other two individuals who began to monopolize the microphone during the discussion? In no way is this the behavior of sincere detractors but instead is the tactic of those whose agenda, whatever it might be, is all that they wish to represent.
In 1975, at FilmCon in San Diego, writerfella was the special guest of the convention because his episode of The Animated STAR TREK had won the Emmy Award. During the audience Q&A session, one young woman took over the microphone and demanded to know why writerfella had written that story, "when there are so many other, more important gods and goddesses that you could have written about?" writerfella's response was, "Important? Important to WHOM?" Whereupon the woman began to rant about Christian ideals and Jewish ideals and then mostly to scream that the episode should have dealt with 'meaningful' deities. At that point, crowd control security people literally flew out of the dark to grab her and hustle her out of the auditorium. All writerfella could say at that point was, "Who was that masked woman?" which brought down the house. The crowd applauded and FilmCon people came to him later to apologize. writerfella correctly said that the crazies always are among us, and they look so much like the rest of us that there is no way of preventing them from 'going crazy'. During the Q&A, he was able to continue a bright and lively discussion with a much interested audience. Thus it is that writerfella knows how Mel Gibson must have felt, as it had happened to him in much the same manner...
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Russ Bates
'writerfella'
Gibson's people say Estrada was disruptive. She says she wasn't:
"In no way was my question aggressive in the way that he responded to it," Estrada said.
Because I don't swallow everything Gibson says uncritically, I'll go with Estrada's version of the incident. I'm guessing she was removed because she asked questions that Gibson couldn't handle.
Mel Gibson's movies are regarded across the board to have 100% more historical integrity than the usual effluent pumped out by Hollywood and she was just being disruptive.
Gibson is subjected to unfair scrutiny. THERE ARE other versions of the story by audience members which reveal:
A) Gibson was initially very patient with the professor and
B) She had it coming.
http://fox-gloves.livejournal.com/153262.html
Writerfella here --
writerfella understands that what Rob is saying is that he will swallow EVERYTHING Estrada says uncritically. Geez, writerfella sure hopes Alicia Estrada doesn't believe in The Face On Mars or Scientology!
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Russ Bates
'writerfella'
Wrong, Russ. You continue to prove your ignorance with comments like that.
I let the link to the LiveJournal report stand. If it's accurate, as it appears to be, then Estrada was indeed rude.
She's still right about the quality of Gibson's research, which seems to be as faulty as yours. But she shouldn't have started up again after her turn was over.
There...I've said something critical about Estrada, thus proving your statement false. Now let's see you say something critical about Gibson's portrayal of the Maya. Prove you're not as ignorant as he is.
Anonymous's comment that Gibson's "historical integrity" is well-regarded is nonsense, at least as it applies to Apocalypto. Not a single expert except Gibson's hired shill has vouched for it. I've quoted the experts and readers of this blog know it.
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