I watched the first two seasons, and they tinkered with the format specifically because they don't seem to be able to get a good script and director.

You do realize that four of the five nominees for best cinematography this year, including the winner, shot on digital. Only Wes Anderson shot on film.

Also, Marc Joubert is an "I love you, man" kind of drunk. Which? Of course he is.

True. He did seem both the most reasonable and the most authoritative. He made it more difficult to argue with him or do an end run around him which is not something to scoff at.

But his subsequent interviews show just how dedicated he is to film. He'd have gone out of respect for Farrelly, but I doubt that, in the end, he'd have changed his mind. Not on his first feature.

True. But with the caveat that this is all conjecture since I haven't read either script, I bet "Not Another Pretty Woman" wasn't actually worse than "The Leisure Class," it was just a matter of being a script no one wanted to make in the first place so everyone was willing to dump it the first chance they got.

It's easy to look good when you have virtually nothing to do with the hands on production of the movie and only show up occasionally to bless it with your presence.

Jason was on the verge of accepting digital? That's a pretty big stretch especially in light of his subsequent interviews. He had no intention of accepting digital until/unless it was forced on him.

That list. Reminds me of the scene in "A Fish Called Wanda" where Otto asks Wanda if apes read philosophy.

It felt professional because it was. Jason wouldn't have had access to the level of actors or crew he had with PG if he tried to make this on his own with a GoFundMe. This wouldn't have been the movie he'd be peddling at a festival.

I didn't say it wasn't organic, or that they set out to create the drama. What I said was Jason presented himself in a way that led them to believe he was, ultimately, better than he was. It's like how cats gravitate toward the person who ignore them the most. They see that as dominant behavior.

In fairness to Damon, was he being contemptuous or was he just being a guy from Boston?

Because she's the one who had to communicate to Jason what Len et al said?

I used the word "cast" because Damon used the word cast. And he was cast. When hiring a director, you don't aim for a Guillermo del Toro type if what you're making is a Farrelly comedy so in that case, regardless of how good Jason's submission was, it wasn't right for the film the wanted to shoot and he really…

I'm not defending him in the slightest. I'm just saying that by the time they were shooting the stunt, on the last day of principal photography, Effie should have known better how to communicate things to Jason but she was still hedging and leaving him room to overinterpret her news.

And if I remember correctly, the "defecated on the Bentley" line was always in the script, so that one's 100% on Jason, not Pete Jones.

Or she can outright say, "We can't do the flip because HBO won't sign off on it." She didn't say that, she said "We can do the stunt." Those mean two different things. One is open to interpretation, the other isn't. She constantly chose the one that was open to interpretation.

Even she admitted in the Buzzfeed interview that her communication with Jason wasn't ideal.

Ed Weeks is also on the Mindy Project. There was quite a lot of time dedicated to the drama of whether or not they'd be able to cast him because he was under contract with The Mindy Project and they were shooting the fourth season.

Or his career doesn't rely on getting credits. A lot of people work in Hollywood in high positions who never show up with credits. I don't know Marc Joubert or read any interviews with him, so I have no idea what his career has been about since the last PG, but credits doesn't make the career.