James Gunn Exposed Online Trolls' Ignorance: 'Look Up the Meaning of Adapt'
The most social movie director got fed up with his haters and shoved their ignorance in their faces, pointing out they should consult a dictionary before coming to him.
James Gunn 's known for his constant online communication with the audience.
The director loves a good Twitter chat/Q&A session with the fans or screwing over the industry's scoopers, but he also can't resist verbally slapping trolls and haters who don't seem to have enough of him.
Ever since Gunn's most recent movie, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, hit the theaters and became a massive success, the famous director's been drowning in movie-related questions and comments.
He's been doing his best to reply to the most interesting ones and has been at it for over a week by this point.
We could totally see that James Gunn did not wish to engage in any conflicts: it's not like he just woke up one day during the Q&A week and chose violence.
But sometimes, the haters become way too intolerable, and Gunn's not known for backing off — he takes his online battles and makes sure to come out a winner.
This time, a couple of discontented folks started actively hating on the changes the director made to the original Guardians comic's lore.
Specifically, he changed the gender of Cosmo the dog from male to female to pay respects to the Soviet astronaut dog Laika who became one of the first animals in open space.
Despite the wholesome reason behind the change and the minority of it, those two folks started an entire thread under James Gunn's reply claiming that he was wrong and disrespectful for changing the dog's gender from the original comic.
One of them even went as far as trying to educate Gunn on what an adaptation is.
"The whole point of an adaptation is to adapt. You adapt the source material as I stated. And I hate comics changing established characters as well (unless they state it's a multiverse thing," wrote Notgoinginsane in the thread.
You bet James Gunn didn't take this attempt at a linguistics lesson lightly — and hit the hater with his own. It wasn't too detailed as the director clearly wanted his student to self-educate enough first.
"It's always a multiverse thing. That's what the MCU is — a different version of Earth 616. And, again, you should look up the meaning of 'adapt,'" shaved off Gunn.
Whether the hater took to the advice remains unknown. But for the rest of us, the lesson is still there, and not the one about the nature of adaptation.
Just don't try to jump James Gunn online: you won't be the first one, and the director's way too experienced in this sort of stuff by this point to spare your dignity in a debate.
Source: Twitter