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#1- mentioned politics because you know very well you don't apply your ridiculous "well, I don't think it would have come out if it wasn't true" philosophy across the board;
#2- a direct quote is the opposite of manipulation
#3- strawman, lol
#4- it's not illegal to make royalties off a film that depicts some event from your life; that's actually pretty standard on biographical adaptations and doesn't even remotely begin to prove wrongdoing.
The only thing emotional here is your French Revolution 2.0 attitude, you just don't like the Tuohy's and so someone saying something nasty about them is enough for you to say off with their heads.
You keep adding “well” to the beginning to make it seem as if I don’t have anything to back it up and then removing the context about Oher being known as a really good dude and the fact this is all coming out in a court filing based on research into the contracts Oher was made to sign by the Tuohys. You’re straight up lying about not manipulating what I said.
You result to tribalism because you have absolutely nothing else you can use to try and convince others.
It’s not a strawman. You are saying you don’t believe his lawyers. They are filing to have his conservatorship lifted and recoup money they made off Oher. You’re gonna need to square that circle.
yeah no crap Sherlock that’s the entire problem of the case you are refusing to read about but voice loud and wrong opinions on. Oher isn’t getting paid royalties, Sean Tuohy says they haven’t made money off the film, and then his son claims they have. Oher is literally trying to get the money he’s owed for HIS story. This is actually incredibly embarrassing that you’ve said this much without actually reading on it.
edit: the last comment is truly bizarre. I haven’t thought about the blindside or the Tuohys in a long time. I thought the film wasn’t great and that it was really weird they would let Oher be portrayed that way but I assumed they were good people that got steamrolled by some Hollywood executives into changing the story for some Oscar bait. Didn’t know they were this despicable until today
What is embarrassing is the continual intellectual farting with your armpit you are doing.
Make the case then. Explain how his lawyers can be lying about legal documents in their court filing. You think they’d make false allegations about documents when the court and defense has access to the documents? Come on that’s insane. You clearly didn’t read what was going on and picked the Tuohys side because you like them more than Oher for some reason.
I can never find that eating popcorn emoji when I want to.
It’s not that exciting tbh. One person (me) has facts and the other person has fee fees.
After reading a couple more articles, it's like most issues, the truth seems to be somewhere in the middle.
Family says a conservatorship was the only way he could play at Ole Miss. He says he thought he was adopted.
It's true the Tuohys didn't "need" the money but was altruism really their motivation? I don't know, I don't know them from squat. Overall, it's sad that a family situation as it were, is completely blown up at this point.
then they should have no problem lifting it 15 years after he left college
If this goes to trial, it should be no problem to prove or disprove whether the "family" got $ from the movie. Same for conservatorship. The family's 'Intent"? I'm not sure how difficult or easy it would be to prove that.
Yeah probably best to wait and hear more of the story. It's sad that he's not feeling like part of the family, but I find it difficult to assume that the family only helped a 16 year old because they knew he was going to the NFL and they would make a lot of money off a movie. Lot of foresight if you ask me. Even at 18 when the agreement was put in place. Doesn't sound like they got money off his NFL deal so we're really just talking about the movie. He should get paid off of that. Does the movie happen if they don't help him though?
I haven't seen a lot of the details on the background. So we'll see what comes out
I’m wary of believing anything from Sean or Leigh Anne Tuohy at this point. He said they had to do a conservatorship because you can’t adopt an 18-year old which is a straight up lie. It’s much easier to adopt an 18-year old in Tennessee than it is to get someone into a conservatorship
Here’s a timeline of events just to show how fast the Tuohys moved:
2004: Tuohys ask Michael to move in for his senior year in high school after he receives numerous scholarship offers from top CFB teams. During the year he is entered into a conservatorship. He ends the year as a 5-star for the 2005 class.
2006: The book about Oher’s life is published titled The Blindside: evolution of a game. Tuohys began negotiating a movie deal the same year.
2007: Movie deal is made with Fox
2009: The Blindside releases as a huge box office and at home sales success
Awfully fishy for them to take complete control of his financial decisions and just happen to release a book about him two years later and get a movie deal finalized three years after it started.
The kid was huge and athletic. Doesn’t take that much foresight. Does the movie happen if it’s not about the man in question?
Feels like if people simply read the article they’d be on Oher’s side
Here you go, big Dawg:
I believe I read yesterday that they had agreed to lift the conservatorship.