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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So it's okay for Justin to be railroaded for being a collaborative director who gives leeway to his actors and it means he should leave the profession altogether, but Blake is allowed to be oversensitive about every single thing, even a minor question about weight. Okay, got it.[/quote]

He is not "collaborative." He is spineless.

I am not endorsing Blake as an actor. I don't think she's particularly skilled and she sounds really hard to work with. I don't care about Blake.

But you can dislike Blake and still read all the info available about the filming of IEWU and see that it's fairly obvious Baldoni was bad at his job. He also should never have tried to direct/star/produce. I've read all his communications with Blake, his communications with producers and editors. I've also seen the communications between Heath and other producers dating all the way back to pre-production and concerns about Lively meddling too much. It is very, very obvious that Baldoni was simply incapable of saying no to her, to having that "iron fist" mentioned upthread and setting boundaries. I don't see a single text or email from him to Blake where he uses the word "no." It's his movie! That's not collaboration.

I guarantee that Blake showed up on Another Simple Favor with all her ideas and rewrites, too, and I also guarantee you that Paul Feig handled it a million times better, set boundaries, and knew when to throw her a bone too in order to keep her happy. Everything I see about that movie is that Lively had a lot of input into her character's clothes (which are ridiculous, of course, but also I guess it works for the sort of campy vibe they were going for) but that's mostly it. It looks to me like Feig knew how to play to Lively's interests and ego while also making the movie he wanted to make. That's what a leader does.

Baldoni sucks, sorry. I don't like Blake as an actor and won't see her movies and don't care if she wins or loses this case, whatever. But Baldoni is not a good director and if you are so obsessed with the he said/she said of this case that you can't see that, then I suggest you take a step back. This dude is not going to get other directing gigs with legit casts or studios and that's because it's abundantly clear he doesn't know how to do it. Maybe his studio will produce some stuff and they'll get young casts like with his first two movies, but he has no idea how to navigate a major production, with or without Blake Lively.[/quote]

I think it's disturbing that you're victim blaming Justin, and it's cute that you think we can't see through you're "I actually don't like Blake, I'm neutral" schtick, even though it's obvious you're pro-Lively. Anyways, it'd be a waste of my time to dismantle  your argument, but it's clear that you're being extremely overdramatic. Chaotic power plays happen on movie sets all the time involving inexperienced directors, but if they get another chance, they can learn from it. That Han Solo movie from a few years back was famously a disaster for the newbie directors who were attached to the point that Ron Howard stepped in, but most reasonable people don't think "these pathetic losers should never work again." They've probably learned that they shouldn't work with a conglomerate like Disney who will micromanage them every step of the way, and work on smaller-scale projects accordingly.[/quote]

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