Tuesday 21 August 2018

James Gunn and Bautista against Disney

Okay I always hear about these things way too late, but in my defence I don't really give a shit about the real life aspect as long as I enjoy the movies.
I like songs, but not often bands/singers enough to know their real names or life stories. It's the same here.

Now I was watching a 'Beyond the Trailer' video that mentioned this tweet from Dave Bautista - the actor who portrays Drax from Guardians of the Galaxy.



Now, channel host Grace said that she realised that Dave did not value the Disney brand, explaining that it made sense for a family orientated company to not want to associate with what was going on.

I disagree. I don't think this has anything to do with Dave not "valuing" the Disney brand.. as it says RIGHT THERE in the tweet - he's ticked off about why it's come to this and how it's come about.

If you're not familiar with the story - basically the anti-Trump director posted some opinions about a conservative named Ben Shapiro in defence of a liberal actor named Mark Duplass who was trying to get his own fans to hear other, differing opinions. Then some right wingers like Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec went digging through Gunn's Twitter history to basically run a smear campaign against him instead of backing up their own argument with literally anything else.

THAT'S what Bautista is ticked off about. That these people have literally dug into the director's social media history from a decade ago to ruin his livelihood.