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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a tale as old as time. A he said she said, the he is a prominent hollywood player who hires a vicious PR firm, the internet rips the woman apart. Zero attempts to look at the situation from both sides. Please provide a single example where in a contentious dispute between a man and a woman in hollywood the woman is believed and the man is injured.

It only happens when someone is SUCH a predator that they assault SO many women that it can't be explained away (weinstein/cosby). And even then they end up getting out of jail!

Prediction: this turns into a 150 page thread talking about what a see you next tuesday you all think she is. Just like all the other multi hundred long page threads in this forum. There isn't one about a man though! It's ALWAYS about the woman. Examine your ingrained misogyny people.

Second prediction: I get a bunch of people replying to me yelling about Blake being awful and Baldoni being her victim and I just blindly take the woman's side.

I'll just get in front of all of those and tell you what I would say in response. These situations are almost always complex with different levels of power at play (in this case, while Lively and Reynolds have significantly higher household name recognition, Baldoni has extremely powerful industry connections, so is not the david to their goliath). And I believe that almost every celebrity is somewhat egotistical/narcissistic almost by the nature of the gig. Therefore it is my belief that there is almost NEVER a party completely innocent here. There is always blame to be found on both sides because it is almost always giant egos fighting with each other. But here, there is never nuance, it is always the woman sucks and the poor man we had a crush on 10 years ago because he was hot in that movie that one time is innocent. [/quote]

lol at Baldoni being considered a Hollywood power player with "extremely powerful industry connections." [b]Baldoni is backed by a billionaire [/b]with no ties to Hollywood. That matters, and is why Blake and Ryan were able to throw around their weight so much. You seem to acknowledge the complicated dynamics here yet are getting so many basic things wrong.[/quote]

Thanks for the bolded, exactly. While blake attended the film with other cast members, baldoni attended with sony execs. He has a whole production studio with deep deep pockets. I'm glad you gave me the opportunity to further expound upon that.[/quote]

Yeah, he's so powerful that he was sent to the basement during his own premiere. [/quote]

Yeah because he went against Sony’s marketing plan for the film that he was committed to. Sony explicitly wanted the marketing in line with how Blake and the rest of the cast promoted it. He went rogue and engaged with the DV themes, which won him internet brownie points but put him on the outs with Sony. [/quote]

Sony overruled Justin at every turn in favor of Blake, even going so far as giving her the power of final cut, but Blake was powerless to push back on its marketing guidelines? That makes *no* sense. [/quote]

DP but that's a twisting of Lively's arguments there. Lively didn't want to push back on the marketing guidelines. She agreed with them. She was happy to promote the movie as Sony requested, as a "girls night out" empowerment story and an excuse to break out "your florals."

Her complaint alleges that Baldoni also agreed to that marketing plan (and it was up to Sony to outline a marketing plan and part of the distribution agreement with Wayfarer that Sony would set the marketing tone because they were footing the bill for it) but then he did an end-run around it by insisting on talking up the domestic violence angle. And the documents/texts from his PR agency reveal that this was an intentional tactic to make Lively look stupid and unserious -- they knew if Lively followed Sony's marketing angle and Baldoni instead talked about the movie as a serious look at DV (which, for the record, it isn't), he would look like the feminist advocate for DV survivors and she'd look stupid. Which she did.

Lively's not saying it's unfair Baldoni got to talk about DV and she didn't. She's saying that Baldoni violated the marketing plan by talking about DV and that he did so as part of a coordinated PR attack on Lively.[/quote]

I'll have to see for myself if Baldoni agreed to the marketing plan given the lies I'm seeing circulating about Blake's complaint on this forum (e.g. this notion that was given "explicit" instructions from Sony to promote it in a light way, even though they were just guidelines). Regardless, Justin Baldoni's public persona revolves around being a male feminist and he asked Sony they had to earmark 1% of the proceeds to survivors of domestic abuse. If he indeed went rogue, I feel like it would be so easy to prove he did it because he wanted to show support for DV victims (whether or not you think he's genuine) instead of it being part of a nefarious plot to bring about Blake's downfall.[/quote]

This is how Sony directed the cast to talk about the film in the Marketing Plan (this is from Exhibit C of Lively's complaint)j. Emphasis is mine:

[i]"WHAT TO AVOID
[b]Focus more on Lily’s strength and resilience as opposed to describing the film as a story about domestic violence.[/b] Empowerment is not just about standing up to adversity, but also about having the power to overcome within oneself and grow from it and developing agency to shape the future.
Avoid describing the film as a love story or love triangle – it’s the story of Lily learning how to take agency of her future.
[b]Avoid talking about this film that makes it feel sad or heavy – it’s a story of hope.[/b]
[b]Avoid talking about the film being representative of every woman’s story.[/b] There are many stories of domestic violence, and this is just one perspective that is inspired by Colleen Hoover’s own experiences growing up."[/I]

Lively's allegation is that Baldoni intentionally deviated from this plan by focusing on domestic violence in his interviews and highlighting DV survivors who had reached out to him, posting their notes to him on his social media and emphasizing the "importance" of the movie as a DV narrative.

Lively also alleges that this was done to make it looks as though Baldoni was choosing to distance himself from the cast intentionally because he disagreed with their [Sony-sanctioned] promotion of the film. I find that claim to be a stretch, but if Baldoni signed a contract that he would follow Sony's marketing plan including the above, it does seem that he intentionally deviated from it.[/quote]

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