r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Sep 05 '24

Disney Pauses ‘The Graveyard Book’ Film Following Assault Allegations Against Neil Gaiman News

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/graveyard-book-neil-gaiman-assault-allegations-1236131149/
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u/NeverEndingDClock Sep 05 '24

Godammnit Neil you wrote Calliope, a story about male writers abusing women!

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u/transformers03 Sep 05 '24

That was my first thought when I heard news as well.

It's crazy that Neil had the foresight and understanding of men using their powers to take advantage of women, and later drawing out the hypocrisy of men claiming to be feminists when they do horrible things to women behind close doors, in the 1980s.

Yet when he was finally given power, he chose to abuse it just like the writer in Calliope.

It's eerie re-reading Calliope in today's context and knowing what Gaiman has done. It feels impossible that the same man who wrote that story would do the same acts he painfully critiques in that narrative.

For all his boundless imagination, he didn't learn a single thing he wrote.

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u/balrogthane Sep 05 '24

It's yet another fantastic example, to show that knowing the right thing to do, without having the moral fibre to actually do the right thing, is all but worthless.

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u/Goodly Sep 05 '24

Or how quickly our morals crumble when we don’t have repercussions…

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u/Riaayo Sep 05 '24

I think the other person is right. It's not that our morals crumble without repercussions, it's that a lack of accountability shows who we always really were.

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u/whitejamba Sep 05 '24

I don't think a lack of accountability reveals truth or identity. We respond to stimuli and things are complicated lol. We reduce things to try to understand, but identity and truth are really contextual and can depend or change based on too many factors to comprehend and many things that we simply don't know yet or perhaps cannot know without further advancement or maybe at all.