Is there a deleted scene that explains why Alison the Fact Checker hated William so much...eternally pissed off is a way to not keep a job very long...and she was bitchy even when it seems there was no real reason...
"It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you." -Neil Young
Probably the fact that he was only 15. She thought he was wasting their time just to hang out with a band. That's how I see it, anyway.
shareBecause the magazine world is dog eat dog just like show biz where if you produce to their expectation you're in, if you don't produce, your out. Plus the fact that she plain just didn't take him seriously.
shareSome people are bitches?
She probably had aspirations of being a professional writer, started off being a gofer or secretary,worked her way up to fact checker. And now here's William, who is 15 years old and hasn't "paid his dues", who is being given the opportunity to write a feature for Rolling Stone with a shot at a cover story no less. That might make someone like her a little less than thrilled.
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That and the fact that she was the one who had to try and attempt to put the cover story together when he hadn't really given her a lot to even work with. In other words, she almost ended up doing the job he was supposed to do in the first place. That would have pissed anybody off in the workplace----having to pick up the slack for someone else who slacked on the job. So she had every right to be pissed off. Nothing "bitchy" about that.
...what...?
"I hope you like feminist rants because that's kind of my thing."
A fact checker must be bitchy or else they can get sued if they get their facts wrong...
shareEven in the commentary, Crowe said that was how he remembered her, but as to the reasons why, I think it's largely left to the audience's imagination.
Though as some have said, her having to fact-check all this stuff about Rock and Roll, he said/she said stuff, could most likely have led to her foul mood.
The extended cut has her actually attempting to pull the pages out of Fong-Torres' hands, and ripping off a corner. She just looks at this, and rolls her eyes (the original cut, she makes a clean-pull of William's story from Ben's hands).
"Thanks, guys." "So long, partner."
- Toy Story 3 (9/10)
WOW.
I wish I had seen the extended cut. I have always asked myself the same question and I came and wrote it down over here, but maybe they deleted it since (obviously) I was repeating this topic.
What about the answer "She had to"?? Come on!
Nobody HAS to be bitchie to do their job, especially with an unknown person.
I gotta say I always hate this character whenever I watch the movie. PURE HATE.
I've seen it and didn't know it was the extended version. Thanks for sharing!
shareOkay this *beep* was hilarious. Maybe it cause im drunk, but it was gold to me (right now atleast).
Kudos to you sir.
Not to mention the fact that she doesn't seem very good at her job.
One of the things that always bothered me about this film is that the job of "fact checker" seems primarily to be "read the story to the subjects of the story." I get why they might be a bit more skeptical due to William's age, but they made ZERO effort to verify 4000 words of wholly true story because Russell says so? At the biggest, most respected music journalism outlet in the world?
You'd think they would've dealt with this before.
I think that she was jealous.
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