The idea of the doc was flawed from the start by giving Vince and his team Final Cut. I read that they had to cut hours of footage (which does happen in any doc) and Vince stopped talking to them after the first interview.
Instead of telling a story, Bill Simmons wanted “balance.” You can find balance without putting flowers and daisies on a deviant criminal who has the moral compass of a B horror movie villain.
He was surrounded by loyalists during the interview session that would either help him with an answer, tell the producers to cut an answer or tell him don’t answer a question at all. He’s an elderly sociopath who is probably losing his mind so it’s understandable, but it means you were only going to get but so much. They didn’t want a Robert Durst situation with Vince admitting to catching a body on a hot mic
They essentially put out a project romanticizing a racist sexual deviant for 45 minutes per episode, and then spend 15 minutes saying “oh yeah, he did kind of do this other horrible stuff but that’s just how the business was.” They frame him being a creep with no ethical standards as being a creative mastermind.
The Rock and John Cena, speak so glowingly about Vince you’d think all he did was save cats out of trees but just so happened to run a wrestling company on the side.
Vince has a certain privilege
because if The Ringer made a doc about Bill Cosby, it wouldn’t be 5 hours of all the cool stuff Bill did in his career and all the people he put on, with one collective hour talking about him being a dirt bag. It would be the opposite.
Instead of telling a story, Bill Simmons wanted “balance.” You can find balance without putting flowers and daisies on a deviant criminal who has the moral compass of a B horror movie villain.
He was surrounded by loyalists during the interview session that would either help him with an answer, tell the producers to cut an answer or tell him don’t answer a question at all. He’s an elderly sociopath who is probably losing his mind so it’s understandable, but it means you were only going to get but so much. They didn’t want a Robert Durst situation with Vince admitting to catching a body on a hot mic
They essentially put out a project romanticizing a racist sexual deviant for 45 minutes per episode, and then spend 15 minutes saying “oh yeah, he did kind of do this other horrible stuff but that’s just how the business was.” They frame him being a creep with no ethical standards as being a creative mastermind.
The Rock and John Cena, speak so glowingly about Vince you’d think all he did was save cats out of trees but just so happened to run a wrestling company on the side.
Vince has a certain privilege
because if The Ringer made a doc about Bill Cosby, it wouldn’t be 5 hours of all the cool stuff Bill did in his career and all the people he put on, with one collective hour talking about him being a dirt bag. It would be the opposite.
