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I, Tonya
2017 · Film · 120 min
Directed by Craig Gillespie
Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
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You probably haven't been noticing them in movies though. Such as when they stuck Margot Robbie's entire head on an actual skater for I, Tonya.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqgD6lHrQ_8
I feel like you made valid points until you referenced the movie, "I, Tonya". The movie has no basis in the reality of what really happened. Tonya Harding knew, and pretended to be a victim and let other people take the fall. She knew, and you can portray anything in a movie, because it is made up and Hollywood is in the business of making money, not in getting things absolutely accurate.
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2018/02/i_was_tonya_hardings_prosecuto.html
http://www.oregonlive.com/trending/2018/01/i_nauseated_the_oregonians_for.html
http://www.oregonlive.com/trending/2018/01/thanks_to_i_tonya_tonya_hardin.html
Now honestly, maybe I'm being manipulated by these people in Oregon who were the ones dealing directly with the issue, but I find it incredibly hard to believe Tonya Harding considering the way she has acted back in the 90s and how she has acted now with this movie coming out. I'm sure her childhood was bad, that sucks. But she conspired to put a hit out on her competition in order to gain an advantage she felt she deserved because of her hardship.
I don’t think there should be jail time for copyright infringement or counterfeiting (or any white collar crime for that matter). So there is definitely that angle; someone shouldn’t be going to jail for something like that.
That’s unfortunately not the angle WaPo and Tech Crunch ran with. They don’t question the over criminalization, but rather focus on the factual issue of whether he was conspiring to counterfeit or not.
If you haven’t, I recommend watching “I, Tonya.” Did Tonya Harding conspire to attack Nancy Kerrigan? You can definitely present a version of the story where she had no idea, as well as versions of the story where she participated directly. The movie does a great job of weaving in and highlighting the disputed facts in a way that conveys the ambiguity of the story.
Journalists often fall into the trap of taking one of those stories at face value. And I think that’s what happened here.
(Incidentally, this is quite typical in outrage porn stories intended to direct ire to the justice system. There’s almost always more to the story than the articles let on.)