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It happens a lot to women we’re expected to be one-dimensional if we are to be considered feminists. “It’s a basic misunderstanding of feminism as pious, sexlessness. “I think it’s a shame that she has been reduced to one inferred moment in the film,” Wilde told Variety at the 2019 Gotham Awards red carpet. Wilde has defended the movie’s portrayal of Scruggs.
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Accordingly, we hereby demand that you immediately issue a statement publicly acknowledging that some events were imagined for dramatic purposes and artistic license and dramatization were used in the film’s portrayal of events and characters We further demand that you add a prominent disclaimer to the film to that effect. My clients will simply need to establish that statements in the film are false and that it is defamatory by harming my client’s reputation, one of the finest newspapers in the world. Since the film will be released internationally, my clients do not need to satisfy constitutional malice criteria for a successful defamation lawsuit in various jurisdictions including, but not limited to, the U.K., France, and Australia. Jewell, the “facts” it portrays about the AJC and its journalists are untruthful, defamatory, and damaging. The beginning of the film trailer proclaims that it is “BASED ON THE TRUE STORY,” and the trailer ends by telling consumers: “RICHARD JEWELL” “THE WORLD WILL KNOW HIS NAME AND THE TRUTH.”!4 While the film may tell truths about Mr. It would be a travesty if this film’s plot was contrived to profit by manipulating the facts to defamatory affect, causing devastating harm to the reputations of the AJC and its hard working journalists.Ĭlint Eastwood has been quoted saying about the film that, to get it made “ I sold a lot of souls to the devil.” He said “ I wanted this picture in the worst w ay.” And he proceeded to make this picture in the worst w aya way that amounts to a malicious defamatory smear of the AJC and its journalists. They have been the recipients of multiple Pulitzer Prizes during the paper’s 150-plus year history. The AJC’s writers were and are professionals who follow accepted journalistic standards.
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“This, too, is the height of irony, since all those involved in the film’s creation and dissemination and its false portrayal of the AJC are the ones who have acted recklessly and are engaging in constitutional malice.” Read the full request from the statement below: “The Richard Jewell film falsely portrays the AJC and its personnel as extraordinarily reckless, using unprofessional and highly inappropriate reporting methods, and engaging in constitutional malice by recklessly disregarding information inconsistent with its planned reporting,” the letter continues. The paper and its owners have retained the infamous attorney Martin Singer, who has previously represented Eddie Murphy, Charlie Sheen, and many more. Jewell, the ‘facts’ it portrays about the AJC and its journalists are untruthful, defamatory, and damaging.” “While the film may tell truths about Mr.
We further demand that you add a prominent disclaimer to the film to that effect,” the letter, addressed to Clint Eastwood, Warner Bros., and the producers reads. “We hereby demand that you immediately issue a statement publicly acknowledging that some events were imagined for dramatic purposes and artistic license and dramatization were used in the film’s portrayal of events and characters.
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add a disclaimer to the movie stating that artistic license was taken in its depiction of Scrugg’s and the paper’s reporting. On Monday, lawyers representing the paper demanded that Warner Bros. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the city’s major daily newspaper, isn’t happy with how the paper or its reporter Kathy Scruggs are portrayed in the film: it is implied that Scruggs, played by Olivia Wilde, sleeps with an FBI agent (Jon Hamm) for information. Clint Eastwood’s movie Richard Jewell dramatizes the story of the security guard suspected of planning the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing, and the actions of the FBI and the local news in the fallout immediately after the terrorist attack.
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