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re: Michael Oher alleges his adoption was a lie, family took all the film proceeds
Posted on 8/14/23 at 2:31 pm to QJenk
Posted on 8/14/23 at 2:31 pm to QJenk
quote:You better put some respect on Sandy's name!!
or Sandra Bullock did not walk on the field in the middle of practice to teach clueless bumbling Michael how to block and be aggressive.
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Posted on 8/14/23 at 2:38 pm to QJenk
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They did help him get great tutoring services to be eligible for Ole Miss. But chances are without them, he would have just went to a Junior College for 2 years before transferring.
Posted on 8/14/23 at 2:45 pm to GetCocky11
This is your famuhly Mackle. You have to protect your famuhlee!
Posted on 8/14/23 at 2:47 pm to SportsGuyNOLA
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And gave zero $$$ from the movie that was about HIM
But he didn’t take action til 2023?
Posted on 8/14/23 at 2:47 pm to Broski
Did he not live with them and celebrate every life event together as a family?
Posted on 8/14/23 at 2:50 pm to QJenk
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You don't find it fishy in the least bit that this well off family takes in a 6'5 300+ pound kid that is already highly recruited by colleges. They manage to convince him to go their almost mater. They lie about legally adopting him. And all while he's still in college, they begin shopping his story around to movie companies.
At worst, they may have had altruistic motives to steer him to Ole Miss, but money was not a motive. Sean Tuohy was already worth more money then he could spend.
Also, they didn't shop the movie. The best selling book came first and was written by Michael Lewis who was a high school classmate and teammate of Sean Tuohy at Isidore Newman in New Orleans. He had already written Liars Poker and it was being considered for a movie before he even wrote Blind Side.
Again, the facts are a rich white family brought Oher into their home after their son got to know him at school. Even with advantage of hindsight, you have to be hugely cynical to look at it and say they did this to take advantage of the kid in some way. They may have later, but even that is a stretch. You would have to believe some guy who sold a company for hundreds of millions of dollars, and who still owns a dozen fast food restaurants, is going to risk his reputation over screwing over a kid he took in off the street over a couple of million?
Posted on 8/14/23 at 2:50 pm to Broski
“The gritty sequel should be fun.”
The Blind Side 2: Blinded by the White
The Blind Side 2: Blinded by the White
Posted on 8/14/23 at 2:53 pm to Basura Blanco
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you have to be hugely cynical to look at it and say they did this to take advantage of the kid in some way. They may have later, but even that is a stretch.
If they were nothing but altruistic they never would have made him sign into a conservatorship at age 17. He was a highly recruited player. He was not some out of nowhere talent developed by Coach Leigh Anne.
This post was edited on 8/14/23 at 2:54 pm
Posted on 8/14/23 at 2:53 pm to Broski
Didn’t even the movie have him signing a legal guardianship and not adoption paperwork?
Did he not watch the movie?
Did he not watch the movie?
Posted on 8/14/23 at 3:10 pm to RollTide1987
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He was drafted into the NFL before the movie came out.
But he signed the rights over to Fox Studios in 2007.
Posted on 8/14/23 at 3:18 pm to Dr RC
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If they were nothing but altruistic they never would have made him sign into a conservatorship at age 17
He was 18 years old, but yes, a rich white family that owned over fifty fast food restaurants was going to bring a kid into their home at 16 years old and a year or so later have him sign a conservatorship to take advantage of him. For what purpose? To get him to attend Ole Miss? Why would they need a conservatorship to do that?
Realize, the book wasn't a thing for another three years when the author Lewis approached the Tuohys, and the movie wasn't even a dream for another four years, so it wasn't about that.
I'm not trying to defend these people as angelic, but a lot of you are really quick to take a 14 page lawsuit at face value and immediately assume it to be gospel as well as assume the people named in the suit are the villains in the narrative.
Posted on 8/14/23 at 3:22 pm to Basura Blanco
They could have adopted him, even as an 18 year old. Having him sign over his rights as a conservatee makes no sense without some angle on their end.
Posted on 8/14/23 at 3:22 pm to RollTide1987
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He was drafted into the NFL before the movie came out.
the book came out after his freshman year at Ole Miss and they immediately began negotiating a movie deal.
the Movie came out the same year he was drafted.
Meant the rights deal, script, casting, filming, production, etc. etc. all had to have started while he was still playing for Ole Miss.
Posted on 8/14/23 at 3:22 pm to Patfic15
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Bitch move, Sandra Bullock.
Posted on 8/14/23 at 3:26 pm to WilsonPickett
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hey probably should have shared with him later but maybe he became an ungrateful shithead so they said frick it!
Or he just didn’t need it
Posted on 8/14/23 at 3:30 pm to Nutriaitch
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Meant the rights deal, script, casting, filming, production, etc. etc. all had to have started while he was still playing for Ole Miss.
while it was "illegal" for him to represent himself and Ole Miss had all the motivation in the world to keep it that way
Posted on 8/14/23 at 3:31 pm to Broski
quote:while Oher should have plenty of money from 8 seasons in the NFL, if true, that still sounds a little shady.
while Oher got nothing for a story "that would not have existed without him."
Posted on 8/14/23 at 3:34 pm to Basura Blanco
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Realize, the book wasn't a thing for another three years when the author Lewis approached the Tuohys, and the movie wasn't even a dream for another four years, so it wasn't about that.
the book was released only 2 years after he moved in with them.
I've never written a book, so I can't testify how long it takes, but
it had to be negotiated with the Tuohys, then written, edited, printed, etc. all before hitting the shelves in September of '06.
according to Google, it typically takes between 9 months and 2 years from signing a book contract and a book hitting the shelves.
So even assuming this book was on the fast end of that average, that still means they had a book deal in place for a kid not even a senior in High School that they took into their homes only a year before.
If it was on the slow end of that schedule, then that puts them signing a book deal right around the time he moved in with them.
Posted on 8/14/23 at 3:37 pm to Dr RC
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If they were nothing but altruistic they never would have made him sign into a conservatorship at age 17.
Notice how they just snuck it in before 18 w/o adopting him.
And for people wondering how the family viewed Michael:
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A conservatorship might be needed if someone is unable to make important decisions due to:
A lifelong or newly developed mental or physical disability
A coma
Alzheimer’s disease or dementia
A stroke
A brain injury
I'm surprised Michael could go potty himself w/o Leigh Anne.
Posted on 8/14/23 at 3:49 pm to SportsGuyNOLA
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And gave zero $$$ from the movie that was about HIM
The movie was about all of THEM, dumb arse. He should have gotten his fair share though. I will wait and see what the court says unlike you.
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