'Kong: Skull Island' director live-tweets ugly confrontation with alt-right plane seatmate
Things are getting tense out there, folks -- it's almost like there's a 35-story gorilla in the room no matter where you go. And as we've learned, giant gorillas and airplanes don't mix.
Kong: Skull Island director Jordan Vogt-Roberts was on a flight Sunday night when he tweeted that he noticed his seat-mate was scrolling through his "heavily alt-right dominated Facebook feed."
And then it got ugly.
What started out as the unabashedly liberal filmmaker's commentary on the "self-made echo chamber" of fake Facebook news very quickly spiraled into a confrontation over a spilled drink, a broken phone charger and a bad case of post-election bad manners.
The guy with whom Vogt-Roberts tangled was not identified, but eventually captured on video:
Here, told in 74 tweets, is a tale of two weary travelers whose seat assignments brought them together, but whose politics -- and so very much more -- drove them apart in what the director called "a metaphor for Trump's America."
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Josh Dickey is Mashable's Entertainment Editor, leading Mashable's TV, music, gaming and sports reporters as well as writing movie features and reviews.Josh has been the Film Editor at Variety, Entertainment Editor at The Associated Press and Managing Editor at TheWrap.com.A finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club's Best Entertainment Feature in 2015 for "Everyone is Altered: The Secret Hollywood Procedure that Fooled Us for Years," Josh received his BA in Journalism from The University of Minnesota.In between screenings, he can be found skating longboards, shredding guitar and wandering the streets of his beloved downtown Los Angeles.
