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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It might not have been a scheme to steal the movie, but how do you justify that that is what she did. Is it because she is a woman so we have to be okay with it?

I dont like JB by but I dont think he deserved what happened, he had been working on this film with the authors blessing for years. He built a world that Blake waltzed into. Blake was not even attached to it until December 2022, right before filming started. She walked in and I truly believe that the choices she made made the movie worse. She was not on set for the scenes with the young cast, which is about 50% of the movie and I actually thought were the strongest scenes in the film. We now know Ryan Reynolds wrote the rooftop scene anyway, and that scene is largely panned as not authentic to the book and frankly really weak.

She did not deserve producer credit -  she didn’t do any of the back breaking work of getting the film financed, hiring everyone etc. The latest deposition shows that even when she edited, she was only there for ONE DAY. She hired other editors. Her cut was not her cut. It’s just the work of others that she is taking credit for. She did very little on this movie, but she had a lot of final decision-making. And to have his name stripped from the poster is insane to me when he worked so hard for so many years. And to find out she tried to get him fired so she could claim director credit is criminal. She was on set 16 days. In the edit suite 1!!![/quote]

She got a producer credit on the movie. She didn't steal it. Wayfarer still owns the movie. Baldoni got the director credit. He and Heath are still producers.

I just don't understand what it means to "steal" a movie in the context you are meaning. Wayfarer made a huge amount of money off the movie. They own the movie.

As for what Baldoni deserves... it sounds like he was bad at his job and violated a lot of boundaries with a lot of people. Looking at his deposition and then the way others talk about him (not just people who clearly didn't like him, like Alex Saks, but also the way Heath or Melissa Nathan talk about him), I think he is a covert narcissist. It's someone who has all the hallmarks of narcissism -- grandiosity, inability to empathize, and a constant need for admiration and attention -- but masks them with vulnerability. So like where a standard narcissist might yell at you or use physical intimidation if confronted with criticism, a covert narcissist will dissolve into tears, admit they screwed up, and then give you a sob story about why their behavior is understandable. You will wind up comforting them (feeding their need for attention and praise) even if you were the one who was harmed by their behavior. They also often use their vulnerability to draw you in, making you feel like you have a meaningful friendship or relationship because they have confided vulnerabilities to you. This sounds like exactly what Baldoni does with his male feminism, which convinces women to trust him and view him as special (and shower him with attention for how evolved and sensitive he is), and then when he engages in these really problematic behaviors, he again reverts to vulnerability, crying and apologizing and trying to get you to feel sorry for him so the conversation isn't about him actually fixing the thing he did wrong (even though he's the boss and is in a position to do so) but about others consoling him and praising him, once again, for being evolved enough to "accept responsibility." Yet then he'll just do it again, so he's not really accepting responsibility for anything.

I worked for someone like this years ago, and it's a real mind&*%k. What does someone like this deserve, especially when they've harmed multiple people with their behavior? I mean, I'm okay with them getting sued when they cross lines, which it sounds like Baldoni did. Otherwise people like this just go on hurting more people. [/quote]

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