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I dont believe she didnt take the plea to protect people, and...

posted 7 years ago by [deleted]
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Come on, an intelligent savvy person would never turn down such a crazily favorable plea (turn over hard drive in return for all money back and no prison) because she wants to protect other people or their families. That's such bullshit. She probably wrote it in the book to appear "good", it's a self-image thing, but it's far from the truth.

I think there must be something more as to why she pleaded guilty without taking the plea bargain.

1. the info contained in the hard drive could indicate other crimes she committed, I assume the immunity would not cover these crimes.

2. some big people would be in it, including mafia like Russians, Irish, Italian. if she becomes mafia target by the Russians , she could be tortured and die, a fate worse than the sentencing guidelines by the prosecutors (42 months in prison). 42 months is 3.5 years. In federal prison she might be in for 3 years, and minimum-medium security for white collar crime like that.

Anyways it simply didn't make sense for her not the take the deal. There must be something else.

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

Just googled. It was indeed a plea deal. I assume the judge's emotional sentencing in the film was just bullshit the movie writer used to create drama, and to send a PC message against wall street.

Such bullshit. Can only fool the gullible idiots with that one.

[–] NoEasyBuckets (352) 7 years ago

Yeah this movie really wanted to make her out to be some amazing human being. I personally don't think running an illegal high stakes poker game is some unforgivable crime, but it was just silly how positively she was portrayed. Even her by the book lawyer was in awe of her? Come on. Plus even a flaw like her drug addiction was just kinda glossed over and included as an excuse for her "slipping up" and letting mobsters into her games.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 7 years ago

Entirely agreed. And it hurts the movie too. I was going wow this is modern (feminism friendly) The Godfather while watching this...

But the ending eventually portrays literally everyone is actually honest and moral felt pretentious and unfit to the tone of the movie with gambling, drugs, extortions, mafia, etc. Like a saturday morning cartoon really.

[–] LTUM (1053) 6 years ago

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[–] Threadkiller (3088) 5 years ago

I actually liked the movie for the most part even though I was getting a heavy sense of "unreliable narrator" if the film's plot is accurate to the real life person's account as the film depicts her in the best possible light. Her biggest crime is running high stakes poker games which to be fare doesn't seem like a big deal, & only unwittingly became entangled with mobsters. She's depicted as a very savvy, brilliant, beautiful (and inexplicably chaste) assertive woman who rises to the top with nothing but her charm and wits. She never takes advantage of or screws anyone over despite this happening to her repeatedly & she makes a special point of pointing out that she NEVER, did any sort of sexual exchanges in her rise to the top which I find hard to believe.

[–] BillySlater (4256) 4 years ago

I don´t buy her account either. I got the impression she overstated her importance in the whole operation of it, indeed the main reason the game existed was to bait billionaires into losing money to Tobey Maguire.

[–] howgamer (3971) 5 years ago

Apparently it wasn't to protect any people, it was just to protect "her name, because it's all she has left" which I totally agree is probably hogwash. I think you are correct that the hard drives would reflect other crimes she committed and that she was not completely truthful.

Overall I thought the film was just OK which was a letdown considering the talented cast. I didn't enjoy the director's approach of over-narration and the back and forth of present-day and the past.

Also, what was up with Kevin Costner and his therapy session at the end. His approach was to tear his daughter down saying all she wanted was power over men and then picks a fight with her while she is at her lowest moment? Then he does a 180 and says that's all not true, you did everything because you got screwed by random chance at the Olympics? That exchange was so strange. I felt like he was very lucky she stuck around for the whole conversation.

[–] BillySlater (4256) 3 years ago

I don´t know but the whole Olympics angle seemed self-serving and also overstated. The real Molly Bloom claims she was "3rd in America" and she crashed during Olympic qualifying ending her career but the dates she competed in moguls are online and don´t match up (she was still competing a year after the Olympics ended) with her best result in competitive moguls being 4th, so I am not sure how that makes her "3rd".