no good deed goes unpunished. This guy would be dead or in jail if not for this amazing family.
Insert Scott Adams pic.
I'm very curious about how much money is on the table.
The movie grossed $309M.
The movie is based on the book written by Michael Lewis.
Tim McGraw and Sandra Bullock got paid -- they were the stars.
The subjects of the movie? How much would they have to be paid? I would not expect it to be a whole lot of money. The actors, the author, the studio -- they all made bigger contributions to the actual making of the movie.
Oher was in the NFL for 9 years and earned a total of $34M.
Some reports say his current net worth is $16M.
The Tuohy's are business people (always have been) and may have a net worth of $75M. That's not from the movie. That's from their businesses.
It doesn't seem like anyone here needs money or that anyone here got a lot from the film.
It seems weird and vindictive.
My guess is the next ‘Michael Oher’ that sprouts up somewhere is going to be left in the field. I know I would look at the current vilification of the Tuohy family by Oher and think to myself, “ Oh Hell No.”
But I can only assume that gratitude is not part of the nature of at least one demographic, especially in the United States.
“It’s not the truth that matters but the seriousness of the charge” Reparations can take many firms just as long as money flows from Whitey to peoples of color that’s all that matters.
The Other Side
my, my, everybody got equal shares
suddenly the black guy looks like a bum
I kind of think he’s been written out of the wills of the white people
tsk, tsk, tsk
The movie wasn’t intended to be an exact depiction of the real life facts. They’re trying to portray that the family claimed to have adopted him, but only for their own benefit. So they planned on making a movie? Michael had a great NFL career that, most likely, wouldn’t have happened otherwise.
External forces at work here...along with the media that’ll take any opportunity to bash Christians.
Seems to me he didn’t learn much in his ‘high school’ and ‘college’ academic careers.
Rather than pooping all over the historical narrative that place him in such a positive place, now that he’s retired, he SHOULD HAVE gone with the more sensible position.
Instead of blackmail (no pun intended), he should have gone with the ‘underprivileged kids foundation’ angle. Endless opportunities to fleece guilty whities and have all the living expenses paid for in perpetuity - like all the powerful whities do!
It is easy to check Tennessee law. Adult adoptions are allowed. So Tuohy is lying.
I have never thought that conservatives might be racist until I read the reactions to this story on FR. After all, we all love Clarence Thomas and Thomas Sowell. But the common attitude here that the big black football player must be lying and the white people must be telling the truth has shocked and dismayed me.