This is way off topic here but I have to ask all of you this. (I am also consulting a lawyer as well as the studio so you don't need to suggest I do those things) Recently someone wrote a "review" of a film that was directed, in part, by me. Now I just read it today and my head is still spinning. This is in no way shape or form a political film and to the best of my knowledge I have never met or worked with the guy who wrote this "review".
The "review" goes beyond the normal "This film sucks in my opinion" idea and the guy takes every chance to state my name and tie it into something false - such as a part where the "reviewer" comments on how the DP shot a scene but instead of commenting on the actual DP he states that I shot it and insinuates it was done because I have only T&A on my mind. Another part brings up wardrobe choices - as were established by another director and the wardrobe person, yet becomes another attack on me with no mention of the wardrobe person of the director who establshed that "look". I mean I really can not even begin to phantom how much hatred and anger is in the 3 page review - but to give you an idea the "reviewer" says he would like to hire someone to kick me in the groin so hard I pee out my nostrils and, in the final summary, he says he would like to find the screenwriter and use him to beat me into a coma...matter of fact this is the only mention of any other crew person in the entire "review". Much of the "review", to me, borders on slander and if anyone took the time to read the end credits one would find 2 other directors with the specific scenes they directed listed...and much of the slanderous "review" is about scenes I did not have anything to do with. So it makes this even more of a personal attack against me, not the film.
So ok - anyone can feel the film stinks. Anyone can point out all the flaws. Anyone can point out bad 'film making' overall. However isn't there a line (not to mention a law) that is crossed when someone publicly threatens a person? And maybe that is the core of the question here - has anyone here, for any reason, read/heard/seen some sort of review that is really a rant about how much hatred the "reviewer" has for you and how the "reviewer" would like to do harm to the person reviewed?
The "review" goes beyond the normal "This film sucks in my opinion" idea and the guy takes every chance to state my name and tie it into something false - such as a part where the "reviewer" comments on how the DP shot a scene but instead of commenting on the actual DP he states that I shot it and insinuates it was done because I have only T&A on my mind. Another part brings up wardrobe choices - as were established by another director and the wardrobe person, yet becomes another attack on me with no mention of the wardrobe person of the director who establshed that "look". I mean I really can not even begin to phantom how much hatred and anger is in the 3 page review - but to give you an idea the "reviewer" says he would like to hire someone to kick me in the groin so hard I pee out my nostrils and, in the final summary, he says he would like to find the screenwriter and use him to beat me into a coma...matter of fact this is the only mention of any other crew person in the entire "review". Much of the "review", to me, borders on slander and if anyone took the time to read the end credits one would find 2 other directors with the specific scenes they directed listed...and much of the slanderous "review" is about scenes I did not have anything to do with. So it makes this even more of a personal attack against me, not the film.
So ok - anyone can feel the film stinks. Anyone can point out all the flaws. Anyone can point out bad 'film making' overall. However isn't there a line (not to mention a law) that is crossed when someone publicly threatens a person? And maybe that is the core of the question here - has anyone here, for any reason, read/heard/seen some sort of review that is really a rant about how much hatred the "reviewer" has for you and how the "reviewer" would like to do harm to the person reviewed?