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Last Friday, the Walt Disney Companyabruptly severedits professional relationship with writer-director James Gunn.
Gunns third movie for the company,Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
(TheGuardiansmovies are cast with adults, but never mind.)
This should be another awesome couple of weeks in the land of Everything Is Garbage Now.
I take full responsibility, and as a business decision, I get it.
As mea culpas go, fine: Its a teachable moment.
Let your work be your brand, not your needy impulse to shock the room.
But its too easy to say that Gunn brought this on himself.
And heres where the problem starts.
That approach depends, for its effectiveness, on a deliberate refusal to draw any categorical distinctions.
Who cares about breast cancer and rape?
One is a jab; one is a libel (one for which Barr later apologized).
