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Nah, they didn’t. They’re stole it. They used his image. They stole money from him as a player. They used him and lied to him.
Now Michael Oher is riding around on a bike and yelled “bing bong”
He was… blindsided
Which would be kinda crazy, assuming he knew he received a lot of money for the movie.
I thought he didn’t see anything from it.
maybe Oher thought the Tuohys got millions from the movie, so $100k was “nothing”.
I’m not overlooking the conservatorship they had over him, which is fucked up, but the fact he claimed he never received any money from the movie and this comes out is a bad look. Others have mentioned ‘Hollywood accounting’ in this thread, which is shady accounting they do to report zero profits or losses, yet he received $138K. Not a whole lot, given the film’s numbers, but still more than he claims and more than people who choose film royalties.
If he was under conservatorship and he received money that means they controlled the money he received right?
It must be nice when you can be that confident, “I NEVER SAW A DIME FROM THAT MOVIE, well yeah the hundred and thirty eight thousand dollars, SO BASICALLY NOTHING!”. I feel like there are a decent amount of people where that’s close to like a decade of 50 hour work weeks. But he’s so talented, should’ve been making 138 million /s
It’s wild how so many people can have a very strong opinion on something that they clearly don’t have 75% of the relevant info for. lol fucking social media.
You would think people would get exhausted from holding very strong opinions, only to realize they were bamboozled time after time
I think most never reach the realization that they were wrong. They just move on and ignore what goes against what they chose to believe. They never realize they were bamboozled.
People really just read the first things that come out in the case, make up their minds, and never read anything else.
See also- the Alabama basketball shooting that happened last year, where a bunch of info that made the case way more complicated and messier than it first appeared came out, but, but everyone just ignored it and carried on spouting misinformation.
Confirmation bias afforded by ignorance, willful or just plain, is a strong drug, never more so than in today’s utterly polarized world where so many have consciously or subconsciously decided to judge everyone and everything based on intersectionality instead of valid logic based on factual premises and objectivity. In short, many today will see what they want to see because it fits their preconcieved biases, doing so allows them to continue to support their believed narratives, and it makes them FEEL good about themselves and their beliefs, facts and logic be damned. This is nothing new, the world has always had people who act thus way, what us new is the ability for these types to gain strength in great numbers via social media, couple that with actual media, academia, political, and lately economic/business entities desire to gain clout and/or resist being demonized by the hoard of the unthinking and actually adding validity to such nonsense, well, we end up with what we have today.
Current situation in Israel/Gaza
There was a movie about it. I’m an expert
Damn
ESH
How People think they knew he would be an NFL and make money off him is insane to me. They spent tens thousands of dollars on him through high school and college to go to a private high school and they evenly split the money between the family. This sounds more like someone got in Oher’s ear and unfortunately he listened. The family enabled Oher to have a career that he would not have had without their help and because of them he’s a millionaire and has a movie. I can’t believe people think he’s being used.
If their motivation was to get him into the NFL for the money, then they sure failed at doing anything with that money. Oher isn’t alleging they tried to take any of it.
Exactly. But the story you tell just doesn’t give reddit the same racial justice boner. So, most choose instead the more sensational and satisfying (but far less plausible) scenario.
Reddit’s speed at (wrongly) vilifying the Tuohys is soon to be memory-hold. Watch (or rather not) for vindicating facts, such as the present ones, to (never) get elevated to the same degree as the more dopamine-inducing false allegations.
This sounds more like someone got in Oher’s ear and convinced him he was being used and unfortunately he listened.
Bingo. Oher’s agent or lawyer probably thought there’s no way the Tuohy’s received less than $1M on a $300M movie. Let’s sue them to reveal the numbers.
He also released a brand new book, conveniently one week before the lawsuit went public.
Free publicity!
Oher’s
agent or lawyerwife.FTFY
What did oher do with his nfl money that he needs to chase after money that he didn’t do much to earn?
This dude made more than $34 million dollars from the NFL, the fact he tried to originally get $15 million from this family or he would try to dump dirt on them tells me he blew through it already.
And after what they did for him? Fuck that guy. Ungrateful pos
This dude made more than $34 million dollars from the NFL
Yeah because pro athletes that earned multiple millions of dollars never go broke or blow through it.
At first, I was like, “Who?”
Then I remembered and was like, “Ohim!”
… I’ll see myself out.
I dont know what the truth is. Only Oher and this family know. That being said 2 things make me believe Oher is closer to right then the family. 1 they tricked him into a conservatorship instead of adopting him like they said they were. 2 they made sure their whole family including their biological kids got paid off of anything to do with Ohers story. Why would a 5 way split make any sense at all? Your pushing this narrative of helping a poor person elevate their life and the way you show that is selling his life story and giving him 1/5th of what that story is worth. The white family who is already well off is getting 4/5ths of the money to help out poor people.
The Blind Side is the typical white savior trope that makes it marketable, not Oher. There’s hundred of poor kids making it to the NFL - nothing special about that,
Sandra Bullock is the star, not Quinton Aaron. That should tell you exactly where the marketing priority is and what sells. So each family making a share makes absolute sense. Plus, the father sold his businesses for over $200 MILLION - they don’t need Oher to make money.
Gotta pay those movie executives millions first. Then catering. Then taxes. Royalties way down the line. lol
Far from cheating Oher, the Tuohys’ lawyers said in the statement, the couple “spent tens of thousands of dollars of their own money to support Mr. Oher during his high school and college years.”
Is a really bad argument when you claim to have adopted him. Of course you supported your kid while they were in school.
Redditors trying to cope so hard to save face on this LOL
Yeah and 100% of the movie rights should really be his anyway.
They’re being sued. They are showing the profits they received were split fairly and then some. This is for the courts so I have no problem with this.
Pretty good. I don’t even remember him being in that movie.
Bird boxed