Maybe run off a bridge and let the drunk girl drown in the car. Then we'd be getting somewhere dark enough for reality.

Great. So she bears direct and personal responsibility for the failures of the film.

Effie was repeatedly referred to as the line producer, and she acted as such throughout. Regardless of what sort of promotion she wants to give herself after the fact, her actual role is pretty clear.

David Gordon Green was a real indie filmmaker at one point. ALL THE REAL GIRLS and GEORGE WASHINGTON made him look quite promising. Then Hollywood showed up with their damn fat checkbooks. Oh well, can't really blame him.

I'm sure he'd be fine with a budget if he had a line producer that wasn't so insecurely focused on looking like a miracle worker that she never took the time to explain how things were actually working.

Hmmm. Well, Project Greenlight is turning into an incubator for webseries. Or something. Kinda underwhelming.

It's a pretty simple decision to work with Jason again. Just don't let him write it. He's a pretty good director, a so-so writer on his best days.

Oh yeah, the writer invited her to set one day. Now I remember. That was pretty funny.

Did they have a lot of time? My impression was that it was measured in single-digit weeks, which is very fast to go from short script to feature script.

I don't remember the woman director that season, but the clowns they went with really were the worst. Far worse than Jason ever was.

Perhaps the most foolish cost-cutting was not keeping Pete Jones working through production. The cost wouldn't have been that high, and it may have had significant impact on the end result. If not him, then at least some writer. It's quite clear the script was the weakest link, and any help would have been a plus.

Namechecks in Jason's answer to which films influenced TLC (I'm not making this up):

What a totally random character, though. She played no role in what was happening at all. I think she was left over from the short, where she was a little more central.

It was their last night at the house, and she was trying to get out on time so they could come back for reshoots.

Looks like the next season might be opening up for entries tomorrow.

The car accident as shot is even worse than I thought it was. What needs to come across there is that Leonard's antics have put an uninvolved someone's life at risk, and that accident doesn't sell that *at* *all*. Which pushes everyone but Leonard to go in directions different than they were headed.

I disagree about Fiona, I think the criticism there was misplaced. From her first scenes she's a lot more savvy than all the rest of them. I'm having trouble seeing what people wanted out of her there. But I also think it was ridiculous to fight over her on-the-nose line at the end when the movie is chock full of…

His bio video for Greenlight cracks me up. https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Because she's the one with 20 years professional experience in a role where communication is a primary skill.

Let's be blunt about the whole reshoots budget argument with Effie.