Did anyone else think this was a little weird? - It just seemed a little too perfect, and i suspect the film-makers had something to do with setting this up - How often, and why, would strangers just decide to pay for a stranger to get through college?
I question if this good deed would have taken place if the documentary wasn't being made.
Did anyone else think this was a little weird? - It just seemed a little too perfect, and i suspect the film-makers had something to do with setting this up - How often, and why, would strangers just decide to pay for a stranger to get through college?
I question if this good deed would have taken place if the documentary wasn't being made.
Sometimes people with money do nice things for others without. It's called philanthropy haha. I did watch the movie again though because it was a little too convenient, I thought I missed something.
I'm sure the coaches had a lot to do with it. Plus, he had excellent grades and a sincere interest in his education, so, that helped.
He had good grades, a terrible injury, and was a player who played with a ton of heart. Even if it weren't for those reasons and the person wasn't just being nice, tons of rich people do things like that, it's a way to cycle money, the guy was worth millions, and paying $50,000 looks good on a press release and on his taxes.
shareChances are Anonymous Donor, as I shall call him (assuming male gender by default), feels it is important to motivate poor inner-city kids to chase after scholarships rather than be motivated by all the negative influences prevalent in their neighborhood.
It is reassuring, given how certain wealthy politicians want to manipulate primal feelings of jealousy, and make everyone hate rich people for not paying their "fair share".
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I've done things like this. Of course nothing on this scale as I can't afford my own college education. Plus it's a feelgood tax write off.
shareNo dmlumb, it wouldn't be a tax write-off. That would require that it be sent to a legitimate non-profit with a Federal Tax ID number that certifies that your donation is a gift with nothing given in return. Gifts to individual people don't qualify for destructibility.
shareobviously this isn't irrefutable evidence or anything, but it sounds like the directors didn't have anything to do with it.
T.J. Martin:
We didn’t necessarily know that the team was going to be the story. ... we were really fortunate that there were some really amazing things transpiring in front of the camera. Dan, you’ve said this in the past, but it was really like we caught lightning in a bottle, and our job was just to put ourselves in a position to catch it.
A decision we made very early on was to never interrupt anything, or ask to have things done; like, “Can we have a shot of you walking out onto the field?” Or, “We need a shot of you walking down the hallway.” We never, ever brought up what we were doing. We never brought attention to the process.
Money finding out that he’ll be able to go to college meant the world to us; I was crying while I was filming that. So it came down to, “In two hours, how do we get the audience to go through the same experience we did? So that when that moment happens, it means as much to them as it did to us?” That was always our objective when putting the film together.
Oh nice, thanks for that interview! :)
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