Why should James Gunn be rehired by
Disney?
Firstly, I’ll catch anyone who
doesn’t know what is going on in the magical world of Disney. James Gunn is the
writer and director for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. one, and two. He was
writing Volume three and set to start filming it in October. Until about a week
ago, a right-wing journalist, Mike Cernovich had posted a few tweets that James
Gunn had posted between 2008-2011. These tweets were nasty, if you took them
seriously, you would almost assume that James Gunn is a pedophile. But seriously,
then you need to lighten up. I’m not defending them at all, they were horrible,
and Gunn never should have posted them. But to say that those few tweets
reflect his personality as a whole? Of course, they don’t. Long story short,
James Gunn posts a few nasty tweets, ten years later they bite him in the butt,
Disney fires Gunn. Disney more than likely didn’t want to do it, they just
figured if they didn’t than they would have the mob at their castle just like
the end of Beauty and the Beast.
There are many reasons as to why
James Gunn should be rehired and given a second chance to prove himself.
Firstly. He already has proved himself, it’s not like rehiring him would be
giving him a second chance. Cause hiring him was already a chance, and he
proved himself worthy to lift Thor’s hammer. It’s not like those tweets weren’t
there when Disney originally contracted James Gunn to write and direct
Guardians of the Galaxy. It just wasn’t a big deal back then.
But now I figure if you take
anything anyone says out of context enough, take it way too seriously, anyone
could get fired for anything. I would take a tweet from Disney’s CEO Bob Iger
and twist it and make it “super evil” and mean. But I respect him too much. I
like him being at the head of Disney, except for this one instance where there
is no forgiveness for Gunn. He may have created movies that allowed families to
come together and smile, laugh, and cry. But he posted a few nasty tweets ten
years ago so “Off with his head”
This whole situation is easy to
sort out without even thinking about it that hard. They were tweets, people
post things to shock people all the time, just for attention. I would
understand firing him swiftly if what he had said he was following through
with. If he actually was a pedophile then I would understand. But we have no
proof. This is the paranoia of the #metoo movement. This is the other extreme.
We don’t want to start accusing people who aren’t guilty. We want to get the
guilty people locked up, and then continue smiling and laughing without them.
One thing I would like to point out
is that Disney has always been a very forgiving company. Walt Disney
specifically was extremely forgiving. I’ll give the most stand out example of
Walt Disney’s ability to accept the change in people, in order to work together
and create amazing things.
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr
von Braun, it’s a mouthful I know, I’ll just call him Max for now. In his early
twenties, Max worked in Nazi Germany’s rocket development program. You heard
me, “Nazi” and I mean it for real, he was a legit Nazi. He helped create the V2
rockets that were used in World War Two by the Nazis.
When Max was a kid his mother
gifted him a telescope, that allowed him to develop a passion in astronomy. He
once got in trouble in his hometown for detonating a wagon, by attaching
fireworks to it. He was inspired by speed records established by Max Valier and
Fritz von Opel, in rocket propelled cars. I thought that was cute.
But later in his life, after being
well taught in the ways of math and rockets and like space and stuff. He joined
the Nazi party during World War Two. –
“In 1939, I was officially demanded
to join the National Socialist Party. At the time, I was already Technical
Director at the Army Rocket Center at Peenemünde (Baltic Sea). The technical
work carried out there had, in the meantime, attracted more and more attention
in higher levels. Thus, my refusal to join the party would have meant that I
would have to abandon the work of my life. Therefore, I decided to join. My
membership in the party did not involve any political activity.”-Max
After a while he was set with a
team to research and develop the previously mentioned V2 rocket. He was using
some technology from America’s own Rocket enthusiast Robert A. Goddard, who he
was almost a fan of. But a test V2 had crashed in Sweden, and parts of it were
shipped to Goddard who confirmed that Max was using his technology. Max
reflected on this later and said this…
"His rockets ... may have been
rather crude by present-day standards, but they blazed the trail and
incorporated many features used in our most modern rockets and space
vehicles."-Max
The funny thing is, it was
confirmed later that Max had never seen a patent of Goddard’s while developing
the V2. So, they both basically made some similar advancements without knowing
about it apparently.
In 1942 Hitler ordered for the V2’s
production as a vengeance weapon. In 1943 Max made a color movie to show a V2
taking off, Hitler was so impressed with Max that he personally made him a
Professor. In Germany currently, that was a big deal for a 31-year-old engineer
to be a professor already.
One of the biggest events in Max’s
history is cool to me. While working in Peenemünde Germany, the Soviet army was
getting close to them. They moved their research to a town in the Bavarian
Alps, where they were guarded by the SS, who had strict orders to execute the
team if they were about to be captured. Seems harsh. *shrug*
Max convinced the SS officer to
disperse the soldiers into the town where they were. To not make them such an
easy target all in their own base, away from civilians. Max and his brother
Magnus (who I forgot to mention earlier but he’s been here this whole time) and
the rest of the team escaped to Austria, where they found an American Solider,
and they then surrendered to the Americans, As you should. 😉
“We knew that we had created a new
means of warfare, and the question as to what nation, to what victorious nation
we were willing to entrust this brainchild of ours was a moral decision more
than anything else. We wanted to see the world spared another conflict such as
Germany had just been through, and we felt that only by surrendering such a
weapon to people who are guided by the Bible could such an assurance to the
world be best secured”-Max
After they handed themselves over,
they were interviewed by The British first, and then the Americans second. This
team of engineers consisted of the future lead designer of Rolls-Royce and the
inventor Concordes engines. Also, Max’s brother was eventually a lead executive
for Chrysler.
Max on the other hand eventually
was lead designer for our Jupiter-C rocket, that was the West’s first satellite
in space. Max had new ideas for rockets, but America was only interested in a
very modest rocket program. In the meantime, the press was all caught up on Max’s
past as a Nazi and all that. (Naturally)
Now the point that I’ve been
leading up too, Max met Walt Disney at some point. He became the technical
director for Three television films on space exploration. The first broadcast
was titled “Man in Space” and it aired March 5th, 1955, with 40
million viewers. That’s a lot of people. Also, I’m fairly certain there is a
life size model of the V2 rocket in Tomorrowland in Disneyland to this date,
thanks to Max.
Walt Disney did not let Max’s
affiliation with the Nazi’s affect his perception of Max’s character, only ten
years after being a Nazi. So why should we let a few tweets from ten years ago
affect our perception of James Gunn? We shouldn’t. He’s changed over his time,
just like we all do. And if we are going to go around treating people like they
are 100% unable to change for the better, then why should we strive to be
better at all? Why does anything matter? It’s a dangerous mindset that
shouldn’t be getting its way. I mean if we’re going to judge people based on
their past then let’s look at Robert Downy Jr. I’m teasing. He’s a different
man than he was back then.
…And Max wasn’t the only ex-Nazi to
work for Disney.
I feel like there literally must be
something more to this than we know. Call my crazy but maybe Disney wanted
James Gunn fired but couldn’t justify it. So, they had someone rat him out so
they could fire him? Seriously the reason they did it was already so stupid…
