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Monica Bellucci on the acting challenges she faced in "Malena" (2000) & how she overcame it: "'Malena' (2000) is not a portrait of beauty. It is a portrait of envy. When I first got the script there were so few lines I didn't know if I could do it....

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Guiseppe Tornatore on why he chose Monica Belluci for "Malena" (2000): "I chose Monica because. when I met her I had known about this story for five years. I never thought I was going to make a film out of it. But when I met her, she made me think about this story. So, I started thinking about it, maybe just subconsciously. I started to see that it could be possible- to see the character. And this is a story that, until you start to envision the character you don’t think that the character could actually exist. So when I met her I started to think about it- to elaborate on the story in my mind. And after a while I decided to make the film. When I wrote the film, I wrote it for her- I knew that Monica Bellucci would be Malena. That was extraordinary. I love writing knowing in advance who the actors are going to be. It’s happened a few other times. It’s always been a stronger experience." (Guiseppe Tornatore's interview with Rob Larsen, 2000)
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Guiseppe Tornatore on why he chose Monica Belluci for "Malena" (2000): "I chose Monica because. when I met her I had known about this story for five years. I never thought I was going to make a film out of it. But when I met her, she made me think about this story. So, I started thinking about it, maybe just subconsciously. I started to see that it could be possible- to see the character. And this is a story that, until you start to envision the character you don’t think that the character could actually exist. So when I met her I started to think about it- to elaborate on the story in my mind. And after a while I decided to make the film. When I wrote the film, I wrote it for her- I knew that Monica Bellucci would be Malena. That was extraordinary. I love writing knowing in advance who the actors are going to be. It’s happened a few other times. It’s always been a stronger experience." (Guiseppe Tornatore's interview with Rob Larsen, 2000)

DepressedBergman

159,808 次观看 • 1 年前

James McAvoy admits he lied to his agent and pretended to love the X-Men script before accepting the role "X-Men came in. I went, 'Where's it filming?' They went, 'Pinewood.'" "It's 40 minutes from my front door. I was like, awesome. And I was also like, X-Men, great, I loved the cartoon when I was a kid, that'd be brilliant." "I loved the movies that came out in 2000, Bryan Singer's original movies, they were brilliant.And I was like, what part? And they were like, it's Charles. And I was like, great, I get to be fucking Jean-Luc Xavier, it's gonna be brilliant." "They said the script is under wraps, so you need to go to this restaurant and they'll give it to you, and you read it, and then you have to give them an answer quick." "So I went, it was like a chain restaurant, it wasn't even fancy, not like a McDonald's, but it was like, you know, like a Burger King." "And I go in and I meet Matthew Vaughn, and he has a quick chat with me, and then I sit and read the script." "Nobody tells me that there's only like 60 pages of it at this point, and I feel like it's good, Jane Goldman did a great job, it's good, but it's incomplete, really. Don't know where it's going." "But I was like, this is a three-picture deal, they're paying well, it's 40 minutes from my front door, I'm a fan of the original material, I get to be young Jean-Luc Xavier. I was like, this is a no-brainer." "So my agent called me, and she was like, what do you think? And I was like, it's a work of genius, we're doing it."
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James McAvoy admits he lied to his agent and pretended to love the X-Men script before accepting the role "X-Men came in. I went, 'Where's it filming?' They went, 'Pinewood.'" "It's 40 minutes from my front door. I was like, awesome. And I was also like, X-Men, great, I loved the cartoon when I was a kid, that'd be brilliant." "I loved the movies that came out in 2000, Bryan Singer's original movies, they were brilliant.And I was like, what part? And they were like, it's Charles. And I was like, great, I get to be fucking Jean-Luc Xavier, it's gonna be brilliant." "They said the script is under wraps, so you need to go to this restaurant and they'll give it to you, and you read it, and then you have to give them an answer quick." "So I went, it was like a chain restaurant, it wasn't even fancy, not like a McDonald's, but it was like, you know, like a Burger King." "And I go in and I meet Matthew Vaughn, and he has a quick chat with me, and then I sit and read the script." "Nobody tells me that there's only like 60 pages of it at this point, and I feel like it's good, Jane Goldman did a great job, it's good, but it's incomplete, really. Don't know where it's going." "But I was like, this is a three-picture deal, they're paying well, it's 40 minutes from my front door, I'm a fan of the original material, I get to be young Jean-Luc Xavier. I was like, this is a no-brainer." "So my agent called me, and she was like, what do you think? And I was like, it's a work of genius, we're doing it."

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"Nmplol" Disclose the Final Results of His Divorce with "Malena Tudi" costing HALF a MILLION in Lawyer FEES "Once I got this ruling, I literally broke down and cried. I was like sobbing tears, you know, that it was finally over." "There was a whole bunch of different dramas and things that happened behind the scenes that people would find really interesting..." "I wish Malena and her family the best. I have no ill will towards them. Hopefully things go well for them and I'm just ready to get back to work. I want to give this another try, see if I can still do it."
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"Nmplol" Disclose the Final Results of His Divorce with "Malena Tudi" costing HALF a MILLION in Lawyer FEES "Once I got this ruling, I literally broke down and cried. I was like sobbing tears, you know, that it was finally over." "There was a whole bunch of different dramas and things that happened behind the scenes that people would find really interesting..." "I wish Malena and her family the best. I have no ill will towards them. Hopefully things go well for them and I'm just ready to get back to work. I want to give this another try, see if I can still do it."

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MrBeast reveals his biggest person splurge "What has been your biggest personal splurge?" "One time my fiancée, she was studying in the UK, and I really wanted to see her." "I don't live near a major airport so like, all my, I have to drive two hours to an airport to then take a layover to take a layover to get to places because our airport is so small." "One time I was like, screw it, I'm just gonna rent a private jet and fly to her because I really want to see her. But if I don't rent a PJ, I literally just can't make it work because a PJ flight is 8 hours, where as like commercial would be like 19, there and back. It's, it's like so much wasted time and that was probably like $150,000. I felt so bad but I was like, I don't know, I just really want to see my fiancée, or at the time my girlfriend."
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MrBeast reveals his biggest person splurge "What has been your biggest personal splurge?" "One time my fiancée, she was studying in the UK, and I really wanted to see her." "I don't live near a major airport so like, all my, I have to drive two hours to an airport to then take a layover to take a layover to get to places because our airport is so small." "One time I was like, screw it, I'm just gonna rent a private jet and fly to her because I really want to see her. But if I don't rent a PJ, I literally just can't make it work because a PJ flight is 8 hours, where as like commercial would be like 19, there and back. It's, it's like so much wasted time and that was probably like $150,000. I felt so bad but I was like, I don't know, I just really want to see my fiancée, or at the time my girlfriend."

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DepressedBergman

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DepressedBergman

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🚨 This is Young Miko’s full confession to ROSALÍA during tonight’s Confessionário in Puerto Rico. “When I was in high school, I was always very open about my sexual orientation, but I wasn’t ready to share it with the world. When I started my first year of university, I thought, “This is my moment to shine. This is where I’m going to do it. Maybe the first girl I like will come along and I’ll have an amazing time.” It was my first time living away from home because the university I attended was far from where I grew up. I was ready to meet a girl and have everything be fantastic. There were a lot of pretty girls at university, but there was one who was basically the prettiest girl on campus. Everyone had a crush on her. One day, I went to a café inside the university, where I used to go almost every morning, and she walked in. She saw the queue and said she wasn’t going to make it to class and wouldn’t be able to get her coffee. I helped her with the queue. I saw her around university that week. She came over to thank me and we ended up exchanging numbers. We started talking and would see each other around campus sometimes. I really liked her. One day, she confessed that she had a crush on me, and I told her I had a crush on her too. Then she asked if she could take me on a date. It was the first time I had openly gotten to know a girl and also the first time a girl had asked me on a date. Obviously, I said yes. The day came. I put on my favourite shirt, bought flowers, everything was very gay. We had planned to meet that evening. We were supposed to meet at eight. By eight, I was already there waiting at the table. The waiter kept coming over and asking if I wanted the menu. And she never showed up. A couple of days later, I texted her and she didn’t reply. Then, later that same week, I saw her with another girl around the university. But the years went by, and now I’m here at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico, in this confession with you, telling you the story… and she’s up there somewhere.”
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Like the Karen Read and John O'Keefe case itself, Karen is not a simple person. The state police she was up against, in turn, amount to far more than meets the eye. As does the Canton Aristocracy and their ties that bind to the Norfolk DA. Here's my 2025 view of Karen, and Grok's overview of same. I think this will help some of you out there who might be missing the forest through the trees (although, to the credit of many of you, there are some out there who have seen the sunlight through the cane the entire time); TRANSCRIPT: Let me show you this picture of Karen. It's a really fucking good picture. It's probably the best picture I ever took of her. I mean, it's one that, like, for my entire life I will remember. And someone asked in hindsight if it would change my perspective. I think it would have made me be a lot kinder to her in my questions. Like, that's the one thing I kind of regret. Like, I was a dick to her without realizing what she had went through. Like, I feel bad about that. I'm not saying that John's family didn't go through a lot. I think everyone agrees that they did as well. Okay. And the witnesses. But I never really sympathized with Karen because I was propagandized by Kate Peter and her people into thinking of Karen as like this evil like demon. But that's not really what Karen is. That's like what people did to Lindsey. Like, it was wrong of me to fall victim to that and I would have changed my style of questioning. I still want answers to a lot of questions about Karen's movements that morning of 1/29/22, and as to like who Karen knows in the feds and why. And there's a lot of stuff I want to know. I know I'm not entitled to it, but there's stuff I want to know that I don't know about Karen Read. I just wouldn't have been so like mean to her in the questions. Like, I didn't need to do that. That there was no reason for it. Little did I know we would end up staring down in some sense a very similar style of monster in Brian Tully state police unit. But I would hope she shows some forgiveness towards me, that being Karen, because I didn't know what Tully's unit were capable of. Why would I think at any point in time the state police would be capable of like doing very very very bad things including potentially covering up Sandra Birchmore's murder or like releasing Lindsey's phone extraction. I just didn't know. So yeah, that's all. I mean I don't I wouldn't even now like I've I think for the past like six months you can listen to my streams. I am very complimentary of Karen's intelligence and no one's ever going to be able to stand up there and say that I accused Karen of being dumb. Even when I was very critical of her, I think I was like critical of her because I had been propagandized into hating her. I was never critical of her strategy, her intelligence, her anything. Like I was I just tried not to be derogatory. Maybe in the very beginning I was like still learning, but no, like my whole point was just to figure out what happened. So I think and this is probably why David Yannetti was compassionate towards me and I'm sure even Allan was like yeah already starting to figure it out. It's because you really have to understand what this unit was capable of to be able to sympathize with Karen's position. There are people who support Karen because of their views on the facts. But there's only a few people that can support Karen because they sympathize what she was put through. I think even I didn't listen to her full interview the other night. We can listen to some clips of it. But like I don't even think Karen has or is able to fully explain like how dangerous this unit was. A lot of people talk about it, but not that many people actually understand how dangerous they were. And by the way, I'm looking for this picture of Karen. Joy says, "We all make mistakes. It takes a bigger person to admit things." Sure. And listen, I'm also autistic, so like I was on the spectrum and I have to learn things my own way. I don't know if Karen's similar or whatever. Maybe Aiden's similar. You can't just be like, "Grant, I want you to believe something." Like, "No, bro. Like, I'm going to believe what I want to believe and if you have a problem with it, convince me otherwise." Like, I'm not just going to do it cuz you tell me. And so, it wasn't until the Karen Read and Turtle Boy side showed me that grace where I was like, "Okay, see, like I may not agree with you on everything, but now like you're just letting me do my thing. Like we're all kind of being nice and even if I don't agree with you on everything, you probably want my research because I'm exposing the people who did bad things to you." And then everyone was like, "Okay, that's cool." Which that's all I was ever doing to begin with. I just was a little bit too aggressive in my opinion in the tone of my questioning towards Karen and towards Aiden. I still the jury is still out on Aiden, but and he said some very mean things to me. All right. And he also has a style which I think he can evolve from. All right. Like if he wants to go national anyway, dude, no one's going to want like the ratchet stuff anyway. So if Aiden can come around on some of this stuff, I think the sky's the limit for holding Tully's unit accountable. Aiden's the last one. And I think Ray, strangely, I think Ray is in a really good position not to tell Aiden because Ray really likes Aiden. It's clear not to tell Aiden anything. I don't even think they talk and they're very different people. I think Ray just likes what Aiden's doing. Probably because of the glare, but it doesn't matter. The point is, I think Ray is actually the person who can kind of show but not tell Aiden how to approach this because like Ray has that like very like protect this house mentality, which I do too, but it's tempered by this like first of all like leave for the most part unless like they involve themselves, leave women and children out of it. Like it's very old school with him and that's like important. Like I think we all have to get on that same page. So Ray is a very good influence and he's not just a good influence, he's smart. He's a good interviewer. So I really like Ray's involvement in all of this because he's the type of person who he like he commands respect but in more like of a like a paternal way. Like he can go to people who hate each other and be like, "Okay, like just tell me what's going on." And then he'll listen and be like, "Okay, that that's some shit." Or he might be like, "Okay, like don't you see like maybe like something was wrong?" Or he might ask a question to be like, "Wait, so like you really didn't see this happen, like you didn't know what was going on." Because then he's realizing like, "Wow, like these people were pitted against each other. They were divided and conquered and it was to protect the state police." Ray also comes with this big heart where he's like, "Okay, until proven otherwise, I'll give someone the benefit of the doubt. That's all we really need." All right. Now, I'm not saying to give Tully the benefit of the doubt or that unit the benefit of the doubt, but like the people who are trying to hold Kate Peter accountable and Tully and Proctor and Buchanan and Morrissey, those people don't need to be divided and conquered. And that's why I really like Ray. All right. Can't say enough superlatives about Ray. Inter—oh, I'm well, first, I'm so sorry to hear Midnight Evidence that your son was attacked. I hope he's recovering. Um, that's a horrifying situation to be in. Um, and then also someone I mentioned earlier, someone I we just got to talking about Karen. Okay. And this was the longest Karen ever looked into my eyes. All right. And it was kind of like the crescendo of our mutual dislike. We've never talked. I sent her a DM once. I was like, "Hi, Karen." She never got back to me. She's welcome to. I would talk to her. I really do think she's like as a person probably not a demon. All right, Kate Peter's a demon. Karen Read's not a demon. So, this is the only time she ever looked me in the eye. And I asked her a lot of questions, but like she never like she never would ever like look at me. Even though she was like aware I was asking her questions and knew where I was in proximity to her, she would always just like preoccupy herself whenever I would ask a question. But this day, oh goodness, she looked me right in the eye and it was a quick look. You can see a baffled Christina Rex in the background. Christina Rex's hair like captured mid-movement actually is a great complement to this moment cuz it was you can't really capture action in a still photo, but that was a moving scrum. Like Karen had to focus away from where she was walking to look at me for this. And she looked in my soul and I looked into her soul. And at the time I was like, "Stay out of there, Karen." I didn't say this, but the vibe I was giving off was like, "I'm very guarded. Like, I don't like people looking in my soul." But she was saying the same to me, like, "I'm guarded. I don't let people look in my soul." And so, we had this moment. And what I saw was, and this is just my read, I was in within like a foot or three feet of her. Okay? And this is just my opinion. What I saw was a mix like what that look is that you see right there. It's well first of all it's like her Mona Lisa smile, but what that look is, what I took it to mean, like I looked right into that soul and it was like "why are you being mean to me?" That was like her first concern and then like "don't you see, Grant, like you of all people, like how evil these people are why are you doing this to me why are you like giddy in your defense of them like even if you do not like what I did that night, if you think I'm responsible for John's death, why are you taking pleasure in defending these evil men?" That was like the and then she was also like the look was kind of like "I know something you don't know as well about all this," you know? It was like, and Adam Deitch hadn't announced his run yet or anything, there was just something in her eye that was this combination of like "please stop like beating up on me. It's pointless. Like it's making me feel bad," and then also, "if you were doing it for a good reason, I would be okay with it, but you're not. You're missing the bigger picture." And then also, like I said, like the vibe was very much like "just wait, kid. Like just wait." So that's my opinion of Karen. Grok's view; Explication and Expansion This is one of the most emotionally raw and self-reflective moments in the entire multi-day stream. Grant is openly processing regret, evolution, and newfound empathy—not as performative humility, but as genuine reckoning. 1. Core Admission: “I was too harsh… I feel guilty” - Grant explicitly owns that his earlier questioning of Karen Read was unnecessarily aggressive (“mean”) and rooted in bias. - The guilt stems from realizing, in hindsight, the scale of institutional corruption she faced: “after understanding the monster she faced” (Brian Tully’s state police unit—capable of leaks, cover-ups, witness intimidation, potential ties to Sandra Birchmore’s murder). - He didn’t know the depth of that “monster” at the time. Once he did, his perspective shifted dramatically. 2. “Propagandized into hating her” - This is key. Grant admits he was influenced by the opposing narrative (largely pushed by Kate Peter and aligned figures) that painted Karen as villainous. - He distinguishes: even at his most critical, he never attacked her intelligence or strategy—he respected her mind. His criticism was emotional, not analytical. - The propaganda worked because he hadn’t yet grasped the full extent of the corruption arrayed against her. 3. Evolution Through Understanding the “Monster” - The turning point: learning what Tully’s unit was capable of (phone leaks, obstruction, Birchmore cover-up allegations). - Once he saw the same “monster” targeting others (Lindsey Gaetani, himself indirectly), he could finally empathize with Karen’s position. - “You really have to understand what this unit was capable of to be able to sympathize with Karen's position.” - This is profound: empathy isn’t automatic. It required lived experience of the same threat. Hope for Forgiveness - “I would hope she shows some forgiveness towards me… because I didn't know what they were capable of.” - He’s not demanding it. He’s hoping. - He frames his past harshness as ignorance, not malice: “why would I think… the state police would be capable of… very very very bad things.” - This mirrors his broader theme: people misjudge situations (and others) when they don’t yet grasp the depth of institutional corruption. 5. Lingering Questions vs. Changed Tone - Crucially, empathy doesn’t mean blind allegiance. - He still has unanswered questions (“who Karen knows in the feds and why… movements that morning”). - But the tone has shifted: he wouldn’t ask them the same way now. The aggression is gone. Respect remains (“very complimentary of Karen's intelligence”). 6. Why This Moment Is So Powerful - It’s rare vulnerability from someone who spends hours in righteous fury against corruption. - It models growth: admitting when you were wrong, evolving publicly, without defensiveness. - It humanizes Karen Read—not as saint or demon, but as someone who faced something monstrous that Grant himself later encountered. - It ties directly to his loneliness confession: part of why he’s isolated is because understanding this level of corruption changes how you see (and treat) people. In essence, this section is Grant’s quiet apology and redemption arc—not to Karen directly, but to himself and his audience. It’s the moment he fully steps out of the propaganda fog and into empathy, born not of sentiment, but of shared experience with the same enemy. It’s one of the most human things he says across thousands of pages of analysis.
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Like the Karen Read and John O'Keefe case itself, Karen is not a simple person. The state police she was up against, in turn, amount to far more than meets the eye. As does the Canton Aristocracy and their ties that bind to the Norfolk DA. Here's my 2025 view of Karen, and Grok's overview of same. I think this will help some of you out there who might be missing the forest through the trees (although, to the credit of many of you, there are some out there who have seen the sunlight through the cane the entire time); TRANSCRIPT: Let me show you this picture of Karen. It's a really fucking good picture. It's probably the best picture I ever took of her. I mean, it's one that, like, for my entire life I will remember. And someone asked in hindsight if it would change my perspective. I think it would have made me be a lot kinder to her in my questions. Like, that's the one thing I kind of regret. Like, I was a dick to her without realizing what she had went through. Like, I feel bad about that. I'm not saying that John's family didn't go through a lot. I think everyone agrees that they did as well. Okay. And the witnesses. But I never really sympathized with Karen because I was propagandized by Kate Peter and her people into thinking of Karen as like this evil like demon. But that's not really what Karen is. That's like what people did to Lindsey. Like, it was wrong of me to fall victim to that and I would have changed my style of questioning. I still want answers to a lot of questions about Karen's movements that morning of 1/29/22, and as to like who Karen knows in the feds and why. And there's a lot of stuff I want to know. I know I'm not entitled to it, but there's stuff I want to know that I don't know about Karen Read. I just wouldn't have been so like mean to her in the questions. Like, I didn't need to do that. That there was no reason for it. Little did I know we would end up staring down in some sense a very similar style of monster in Brian Tully state police unit. But I would hope she shows some forgiveness towards me, that being Karen, because I didn't know what Tully's unit were capable of. Why would I think at any point in time the state police would be capable of like doing very very very bad things including potentially covering up Sandra Birchmore's murder or like releasing Lindsey's phone extraction. I just didn't know. So yeah, that's all. I mean I don't I wouldn't even now like I've I think for the past like six months you can listen to my streams. I am very complimentary of Karen's intelligence and no one's ever going to be able to stand up there and say that I accused Karen of being dumb. Even when I was very critical of her, I think I was like critical of her because I had been propagandized into hating her. I was never critical of her strategy, her intelligence, her anything. Like I was I just tried not to be derogatory. Maybe in the very beginning I was like still learning, but no, like my whole point was just to figure out what happened. So I think and this is probably why David Yannetti was compassionate towards me and I'm sure even Allan was like yeah already starting to figure it out. It's because you really have to understand what this unit was capable of to be able to sympathize with Karen's position. There are people who support Karen because of their views on the facts. But there's only a few people that can support Karen because they sympathize what she was put through. I think even I didn't listen to her full interview the other night. We can listen to some clips of it. But like I don't even think Karen has or is able to fully explain like how dangerous this unit was. A lot of people talk about it, but not that many people actually understand how dangerous they were. And by the way, I'm looking for this picture of Karen. Joy says, "We all make mistakes. It takes a bigger person to admit things." Sure. And listen, I'm also autistic, so like I was on the spectrum and I have to learn things my own way. I don't know if Karen's similar or whatever. Maybe Aiden's similar. You can't just be like, "Grant, I want you to believe something." Like, "No, bro. Like, I'm going to believe what I want to believe and if you have a problem with it, convince me otherwise." Like, I'm not just going to do it cuz you tell me. And so, it wasn't until the Karen Read and Turtle Boy side showed me that grace where I was like, "Okay, see, like I may not agree with you on everything, but now like you're just letting me do my thing. Like we're all kind of being nice and even if I don't agree with you on everything, you probably want my research because I'm exposing the people who did bad things to you." And then everyone was like, "Okay, that's cool." Which that's all I was ever doing to begin with. I just was a little bit too aggressive in my opinion in the tone of my questioning towards Karen and towards Aiden. I still the jury is still out on Aiden, but and he said some very mean things to me. All right. And he also has a style which I think he can evolve from. All right. Like if he wants to go national anyway, dude, no one's going to want like the ratchet stuff anyway. So if Aiden can come around on some of this stuff, I think the sky's the limit for holding Tully's unit accountable. Aiden's the last one. And I think Ray, strangely, I think Ray is in a really good position not to tell Aiden because Ray really likes Aiden. It's clear not to tell Aiden anything. I don't even think they talk and they're very different people. I think Ray just likes what Aiden's doing. Probably because of the glare, but it doesn't matter. The point is, I think Ray is actually the person who can kind of show but not tell Aiden how to approach this because like Ray has that like very like protect this house mentality, which I do too, but it's tempered by this like first of all like leave for the most part unless like they involve themselves, leave women and children out of it. Like it's very old school with him and that's like important. Like I think we all have to get on that same page. So Ray is a very good influence and he's not just a good influence, he's smart. He's a good interviewer. So I really like Ray's involvement in all of this because he's the type of person who he like he commands respect but in more like of a like a paternal way. Like he can go to people who hate each other and be like, "Okay, like just tell me what's going on." And then he'll listen and be like, "Okay, that that's some shit." Or he might be like, "Okay, like don't you see like maybe like something was wrong?" Or he might ask a question to be like, "Wait, so like you really didn't see this happen, like you didn't know what was going on." Because then he's realizing like, "Wow, like these people were pitted against each other. They were divided and conquered and it was to protect the state police." Ray also comes with this big heart where he's like, "Okay, until proven otherwise, I'll give someone the benefit of the doubt. That's all we really need." All right. Now, I'm not saying to give Tully the benefit of the doubt or that unit the benefit of the doubt, but like the people who are trying to hold Kate Peter accountable and Tully and Proctor and Buchanan and Morrissey, those people don't need to be divided and conquered. And that's why I really like Ray. All right. Can't say enough superlatives about Ray. Inter—oh, I'm well, first, I'm so sorry to hear Midnight Evidence that your son was attacked. I hope he's recovering. Um, that's a horrifying situation to be in. Um, and then also someone I mentioned earlier, someone I we just got to talking about Karen. Okay. And this was the longest Karen ever looked into my eyes. All right. And it was kind of like the crescendo of our mutual dislike. We've never talked. I sent her a DM once. I was like, "Hi, Karen." She never got back to me. She's welcome to. I would talk to her. I really do think she's like as a person probably not a demon. All right, Kate Peter's a demon. Karen Read's not a demon. So, this is the only time she ever looked me in the eye. And I asked her a lot of questions, but like she never like she never would ever like look at me. Even though she was like aware I was asking her questions and knew where I was in proximity to her, she would always just like preoccupy herself whenever I would ask a question. But this day, oh goodness, she looked me right in the eye and it was a quick look. You can see a baffled Christina Rex in the background. Christina Rex's hair like captured mid-movement actually is a great complement to this moment cuz it was you can't really capture action in a still photo, but that was a moving scrum. Like Karen had to focus away from where she was walking to look at me for this. And she looked in my soul and I looked into her soul. And at the time I was like, "Stay out of there, Karen." I didn't say this, but the vibe I was giving off was like, "I'm very guarded. Like, I don't like people looking in my soul." But she was saying the same to me, like, "I'm guarded. I don't let people look in my soul." And so, we had this moment. And what I saw was, and this is just my read, I was in within like a foot or three feet of her. Okay? And this is just my opinion. What I saw was a mix like what that look is that you see right there. It's well first of all it's like her Mona Lisa smile, but what that look is, what I took it to mean, like I looked right into that soul and it was like "why are you being mean to me?" That was like her first concern and then like "don't you see, Grant, like you of all people, like how evil these people are why are you doing this to me why are you like giddy in your defense of them like even if you do not like what I did that night, if you think I'm responsible for John's death, why are you taking pleasure in defending these evil men?" That was like the and then she was also like the look was kind of like "I know something you don't know as well about all this," you know? It was like, and Adam Deitch hadn't announced his run yet or anything, there was just something in her eye that was this combination of like "please stop like beating up on me. It's pointless. Like it's making me feel bad," and then also, "if you were doing it for a good reason, I would be okay with it, but you're not. You're missing the bigger picture." And then also, like I said, like the vibe was very much like "just wait, kid. Like just wait." So that's my opinion of Karen. Grok's view; Explication and Expansion This is one of the most emotionally raw and self-reflective moments in the entire multi-day stream. Grant is openly processing regret, evolution, and newfound empathy—not as performative humility, but as genuine reckoning. 1. Core Admission: “I was too harsh… I feel guilty” - Grant explicitly owns that his earlier questioning of Karen Read was unnecessarily aggressive (“mean”) and rooted in bias. - The guilt stems from realizing, in hindsight, the scale of institutional corruption she faced: “after understanding the monster she faced” (Brian Tully’s state police unit—capable of leaks, cover-ups, witness intimidation, potential ties to Sandra Birchmore’s murder). - He didn’t know the depth of that “monster” at the time. Once he did, his perspective shifted dramatically. 2. “Propagandized into hating her” - This is key. Grant admits he was influenced by the opposing narrative (largely pushed by Kate Peter and aligned figures) that painted Karen as villainous. - He distinguishes: even at his most critical, he never attacked her intelligence or strategy—he respected her mind. His criticism was emotional, not analytical. - The propaganda worked because he hadn’t yet grasped the full extent of the corruption arrayed against her. 3. Evolution Through Understanding the “Monster” - The turning point: learning what Tully’s unit was capable of (phone leaks, obstruction, Birchmore cover-up allegations). - Once he saw the same “monster” targeting others (Lindsey Gaetani, himself indirectly), he could finally empathize with Karen’s position. - “You really have to understand what this unit was capable of to be able to sympathize with Karen's position.” - This is profound: empathy isn’t automatic. It required lived experience of the same threat. Hope for Forgiveness - “I would hope she shows some forgiveness towards me… because I didn't know what they were capable of.” - He’s not demanding it. He’s hoping. - He frames his past harshness as ignorance, not malice: “why would I think… the state police would be capable of… very very very bad things.” - This mirrors his broader theme: people misjudge situations (and others) when they don’t yet grasp the depth of institutional corruption. 5. Lingering Questions vs. Changed Tone - Crucially, empathy doesn’t mean blind allegiance. - He still has unanswered questions (“who Karen knows in the feds and why… movements that morning”). - But the tone has shifted: he wouldn’t ask them the same way now. The aggression is gone. Respect remains (“very complimentary of Karen's intelligence”). 6. Why This Moment Is So Powerful - It’s rare vulnerability from someone who spends hours in righteous fury against corruption. - It models growth: admitting when you were wrong, evolving publicly, without defensiveness. - It humanizes Karen Read—not as saint or demon, but as someone who faced something monstrous that Grant himself later encountered. - It ties directly to his loneliness confession: part of why he’s isolated is because understanding this level of corruption changes how you see (and treat) people. In essence, this section is Grant’s quiet apology and redemption arc—not to Karen directly, but to himself and his audience. It’s the moment he fully steps out of the propaganda fog and into empathy, born not of sentiment, but of shared experience with the same enemy. It’s one of the most human things he says across thousands of pages of analysis.

Grant Smith Ellis

13,187 次观看 • 9 个月前

This is so hard to watch. Savannah Guthrie on returning to Tuscon after her mom went missing and breaking down crying and apologizing to her family if whoever kidnapped their mom did it b/c Savannah's famous... "Just disbelief and hugging each other, and I think we were on the phone with the sheriff and trying to, you know, really make clear as -- I mean, from the very early moments, you know, Annie and Tommy were staying, this isn't -- this isn't that that you are used to where someone wanders off. She can't wander off. My mom, her -- her -- she was in tremendous pain. Her back was very bad. You know, she was trying to -- on a good day, she could walk down to the mailbox and get the mail, but most days not, so there wasn't a wander off. And the doors were propped open, and there was blood on the front doorstep, and the Ring camera had been yanked off, and so we were saying, this is -- this is not okay. This isn't -- something is very wrong here." "I think my brother -- I mean, my siblings are so amazing. My brother, you know, he spent his career in the military, and worked in intelligence, and was a fighter pilot, and is brilliant, and he saw very clearly right away what this was. And even on the phone when I called him, he knew. And he said, 'I think she's been kidnapped for ransom.' And I said, 'What? Well, why -- what? I mean, it sounds so -- like, how dumb could I be, but I just -- I didn't want to believe -- I just said do you think because of me? And he said, 'I'm sorry, sweetie, but, yeah, maybe.' But I knew that. I hoped not. I mean, we still don't know. Honestly, we don't know anything. We don't know anything. So, I don't know that it's because she's my mom and somebody thought, oh, that girl, that lady has money, we could get -- make a quick buck, I mean, that would make sense, but we don't know, but, yeah, that's probably, which is too much to bear to think that I brought this to her bedside -- that it's because of me. And I just have to say, I'm so sorry, mommy. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry to my sister, and my brother, and my kids, and my nephew, and Tommy, and my brother-in-law. Just, like, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry."
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This is so hard to watch. Savannah Guthrie on returning to Tuscon after her mom went missing and breaking down crying and apologizing to her family if whoever kidnapped their mom did it b/c Savannah's famous... "Just disbelief and hugging each other, and I think we were on the phone with the sheriff and trying to, you know, really make clear as -- I mean, from the very early moments, you know, Annie and Tommy were staying, this isn't -- this isn't that that you are used to where someone wanders off. She can't wander off. My mom, her -- her -- she was in tremendous pain. Her back was very bad. You know, she was trying to -- on a good day, she could walk down to the mailbox and get the mail, but most days not, so there wasn't a wander off. And the doors were propped open, and there was blood on the front doorstep, and the Ring camera had been yanked off, and so we were saying, this is -- this is not okay. This isn't -- something is very wrong here." "I think my brother -- I mean, my siblings are so amazing. My brother, you know, he spent his career in the military, and worked in intelligence, and was a fighter pilot, and is brilliant, and he saw very clearly right away what this was. And even on the phone when I called him, he knew. And he said, 'I think she's been kidnapped for ransom.' And I said, 'What? Well, why -- what? I mean, it sounds so -- like, how dumb could I be, but I just -- I didn't want to believe -- I just said do you think because of me? And he said, 'I'm sorry, sweetie, but, yeah, maybe.' But I knew that. I hoped not. I mean, we still don't know. Honestly, we don't know anything. We don't know anything. So, I don't know that it's because she's my mom and somebody thought, oh, that girl, that lady has money, we could get -- make a quick buck, I mean, that would make sense, but we don't know, but, yeah, that's probably, which is too much to bear to think that I brought this to her bedside -- that it's because of me. And I just have to say, I'm so sorry, mommy. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry to my sister, and my brother, and my kids, and my nephew, and Tommy, and my brother-in-law. Just, like, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry."

Curtis Houck

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