Rating my tormentors
- Amanda Riddell
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- Dec 14, 2024
- 2 min read
It's essentially this: no matter what you say or do now, the way that you conducted negotiations = no movie.
That's what I'm trying to establish for VUW and Tory: you tried to force me. That is so wrong. -
And then, after years of systematically excluding me, you had the balls to say that I 'must' do it to save jobs of people that have NEVER considered paying me for the draft script. Instead of a series of small meetings between me and potential producers, I got told to be a man.
Instead of a rational negotiation where we all sat across the table and tried to hash out a viable version that satisfied all the potential stakeholders, I got a series of threats. -
Ironically, the Dakumentary was a better example of how to negotiate. I told everyone that I was going to make a documentary about Dakta instead of Weeded Out, then I made some test drafts, and within like a month, Gary and the media were on-board.
I didn't think ahead regarding storage, but I'm confident that Dropbox will survive another few years, and eventually Ngā Taonga will store it. Hopefully we'll get some clips onto NZ On Screen before then. -
Tory's done this to lots of people. Like, maybe she was an effective chief of staff, but as a politician she's shit. That's just the general view, despite my vendetta. Tory and Nadine aren't really my idea of who should be running the town.
Like, they're obviously insulated by privilege and lack self-awareness cos they're used to being in charge. They're not used to having to listen to someone like me: a 'homeless' 'alcoholic' that swears up a storm.
And that's because that wasn't their role: that's what Chloe does, and that's what I do.
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I'd also say that there whole 'we're not violent, so we're better than you' thing feels fucking hollow after concerted, repeated psychological attempts to manipulate me into doing the movie. Mental violence is still violence, or so you keep telling me, but suddenly when you lot do it, it's ok?
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And god I fucking hate having the SIS stalk me as I wank.
At least most people in Parliament have partners, so they're not just wanking in their office like I am. Like, I'm not even an actual MP, but I'm certainly being spied on as if I were one.
Two years of having endless attempts to persuade me has worn thin, and I'm very serious that Nadine and Tory will end up in court if Tina offers continue. As I say, I don't need to prove they're necessarily behind all the mental torture: all I need to do is prove that the IP is mine and that I've firmly refused to produce the movie. That's enough to get an injunction. Tory and VUW have to cease unless they want to meet me in court, with all my drafting documents for the scripts and songs, alongside evidence that I'll gather from the porn feed if this doesn't cease.