“I, Robot” and “Dark City” director Alex Proyas took to Facebook to criticize the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements.
His inspiration was a story in The Guardian, “The end of the auteur?”, which asks how best to approach work by filmmakers whose offscreen behavior has invited controversy.Proyas began with sarcasm before turning indignant: “Kill ‘Em All! The Guilty & The Witch-hunted.
Then you’ll have nothing left to watch other than the sanitised directed-by-committee crap you’ll so thoroughly deserve.”Among the filmmakers cited by Guardian writer Ryan Gilbey for potentially alienating his audience was Terry Gilliam.
Earlier this month, the “Brazil” and “12 Monkeys” director called the current onslaught of sexual harassment and abuse allegations “ugly and simplistic,” explaining that we live in “a world of victims” and “mob rule,” and insisting that some of Harvey Weinstein’s alleged victims “knew what they were doing.”In the comments section of his post,
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