In the show Suits an editors assistant sued her employer for “stealing her idea.” An idea she pitched to her boss, who made the proposal IP work and contracted another author. The publisher, irritated, tried to settle with her for 30k and she turned it down.
I started shrieking.
Whenever there's a film featuring any profession/hobby all I can think the whole time I'm watching is like, so are people within this hobby totally unable to enjoy this as a film because of petty things it gets wrong. The better the film the funnier it is to think about
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Not only did the editors assistant sign a contract stating that the employer owned any ideas pitched at work.
She was angry that her boss used it because “they were friends’ And she thought she’d never think up another book idea. There was no manuscript, just her having an idea.
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She turned down the $30k, which we all know is almost exactly what a high midlist advance for a completed manuscript from an agented author would be, because she “thought she could get more”
With no manuscript.
Which almost spun me into an asthma attack from rage
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They then had a scene where she got to haughtily address her boss (the editor who still worked at the publisher) and claim she wanted public credit for the idea, not money.
Then she wound up getting no credit AND no 30k bc she pissed off Mike Ross and that man shoots to kill 🤪
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@KaylaAncrum
my biggest issue with suits has always been the idea that they only hired from harvard law *after* graduation (most harvard law students basically have a job before the last year of school even starts lol)
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OMG! I remember that episode!
I remember a movie where the guy writes a FULL screenplay on a barstool, hunched over his kitchen island. The whole time I was thinking of the many ways he would be in pain if that was real. It's a bad movie, but that scene made it worse!
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I just watched the episode last week but I was in public at the time and had to keep my outrage bottled up until I got home.
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That's like the chick that said she made the Matrix first, like she was the first one to think "what if life was a video game"
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My papou loved the show Bull and when he finally got me to watch it, the episode was a wrongful death case that went to trial in, like, 6-8 months. And the judge didnt throw a fit with Bull talking constantly to an earpiece in the courtroom while the actual attorney was talking.
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I invented GPS route guidance in my head and got jack shit, why no one tell me bout Mike Ross 😂
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What's the name of this publisher that wants to pay $30k for one of the roughly 5 million ideas rattling around my brain I haven't written down yet?
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