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Blake Lively- Jason Baldoni and NYT - False Light claims
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Anonymous
lol, yeah, the last ten pages have definitely been filled with a lot of Very Important legal discussions. Wait let me sign on to Westlaw and see if I can find some of these quotes about how overweight Lively is, hang on a minute. |
Anonymous
Why does it matter in this situation? |
Anonymous
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https://fandomwire.com/a-simple-favor-2-going-straight-to-streaming-has-nothing-to-do-with-blake-lively-justin-baldoni-drama/
Yikes the hits keep coming for Blake. |
Anonymous
He’s still several years older. A late 30s man with a 21 yr old is hardly realistic. |
Anonymous
He looks older than his age and the entire premise of the film is unrealistic. No neurosurgeon would be with this florist woman, no offense to florists, it just wouldn’t happen irl. |
Anonymous
No one said the discussions of her appearance were part of the legal discussions. Some Lively supporter tried to argue that figuring out whether a scene with a lift was ever appropriate, how to approach the topic, and so forth. It was a discussion about her appearance and styling tipped off by someone(s) arguing that her weight was irrelevant to whether he could lift her weight in a scene Lively intentionally lied about and it’s obvious that that was a big motivator for her false claims. She said no such scene existed; JB’s materials demonstrate it was indeed scripted. Were it never under discussion it’s hard to imagine the topic of her weight being discussed, as the trainer did not, per anything Lively’s side submitted or even suggested, claim that JB talked about BL’s looks or size beyond trying to determine weight so he could safely lift. Speaking of the script, interesting to see that JB was not credited with the screenplay on his poster - a female scriptwriter was, and I’m sure she was tickled to have Lively no wait Reynolds given BL bragging at a premiere “hey my husband rewrote that rooftop scene and no one knows but you reporter for E! Entertainment and that’s an exclusive!” change things around. Much feminism aye aye aye. It’s fair to talk about the aesthetics of the movie stars when that fairly obviously was a source of tension. She was such a hammy fool for trying to do the costuming; a good stylist or costumer is worth so much. I love the movie Cruella and Emma Thompson looked as fabulous as Emma Stone because both Emmas apparently understood that Jenny Bevan knows more than they about clothes. But those women have talent and don’t use their husbands or friends as enforcers best we know. |
Anonymous
| Why is JB wearing hideous rainbow print pajama pants in the film? |
Anonymous
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Curious what people think of this: the judge in this case, Lewis Liman, is the brother of director Doug Liman, who made The Bourne Identity, the Edge of Tomorrow, and a bunch of other movies. A major director who has worked with very high level talent. (Their dad was a pretty prominent attorney who worked at Paul Weiss, for those interested).
Anyway, curious if having a brother directing at that level will give Judge Liman and unusually strong insight into how filmmaking works that could help, or potentially bias him, in this case. I tend to think it can only help because my perception is that many people (myself included) have biased layman's perspectives on how movies work and especially the behind the scenes stuff with contracts, power dynamics, etc. I would also assume that Judge Liman will also be less fazed than others might be about the celebrity of it all -- neither impressed or intimidated by it, which should help. |
Anonymous
Pretty sure my inquiry into how folks in this thread would react to a Baldoni who was, as his coworkers described him, this overanxious and constantly overthinking things and, with his back problems, maybe wasn’t really up for the physical demands that the part he had signed up for required. I think based on what people here have been saying about Lively, they would say that Baldoni wasn’t really a good choice for the role, and had bitten off more than he could chew, and that maybe he should have taken a step back. If the role was more psychologically and physically demanding than he could actually handle, I think people here would say it was his and his production company’s mistake for giving it to him. And looking at him just as a man, who called himself a male feminist, if his own wife tells him he is not being a proper feminist at times, if he himself says he wasn’t doing a great job of it during those six months, I’m really not going to disagree with him. Insisting that a woman who has had multiple kids actually needs to give birth topless I. A tub because that’s how his wife and all women do it — well, that’s … I don’t like that at all, sir. Same with the “all real wimmens simultaneously hit the big O with their mens” thing and insisting on adding in a scene showing that. No thank you, sir. This supposedly enlightened man is giving off a very weird vibe, and that’s all before he knowingly hired the very same PR firm that took down Amber Heard. If uiu did t hate Lively and Ryan Reynolds in some weird leftover-from-high-school mean girl BS kind of way you might be taking a harder look at your weird feminist hero, but you guys only need one Wicker Man to set on fire and you already have both Lively and Reynolds, so I guess that’s already plenty. |
Anonymous
| Re first paragraph above, I mean what folks here would say if Baldoni were a woman. |
Anonymous
The movie was prole slop meant to appeal to middle American women with dead-end and do-nothing laptop jobs. |
Anonymous
| Also on the big O point, if his wife is doing that every time like he says, pretty sure she is faking it. |
Anonymous
And usually when women do this it’s to soothe their man’s ego, which you wouldn’t think a certified (tm) Male Feminist would need so much but *shrug* |
Anonymous
Ignore this poster. She just repeatedly tries to get the thread shut down. |
Anonymous
Nope, just adding my very real opinion to this thread, same as you. I can understand why you wouldn’t want to deal with my criticism of Baldoni, but I assure you it’s perfectly sincere and in no way am I trying to shut the thread, which I totally understand you kind of need for your continuing mental health at this point. But I am allowed to have and post negative opinions about Baldoni in here. |