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It's worth remembering that, quite famously, Rowling was in dire financial and personal straits when she struck the mother lode of IPs. On the public dole, just divorced, in her mid-30s, just lost her mother, if I remember correctly. Then literally overnight she became the biggest fantasy writer of the 1990s-2000s. And there's Bob -- his situation not too much better, struggling in the trenches, not getting any younger -- and not one of his numbfuck ideas can get .00001% of Harry Potter's success. That rags to riches story should be him, have no doubt of it.
Envy and bitterness are a big part of Bob's makeup. If that weren't the case, his vitriol wouldn't be nearly as over the top. This sort of ugliness often comes from profound frustration and resentment.
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and you keep tripping all over one-another in a mad rush past it en-route to the bottom of the bell-curve. It’s enough to make any Film Geek worth his salt wonder if it’s even worth the continued effort at this point – after all, it wouldn’t seem that hard to simply make like the good guys in “Atlas Shrugged” and just cut our losses: Head off for some secluded self-made paradise, take all the unappreciated greatness of moviedom with us and just wait it out until Michael Bay, McG, Tyler Perry and the (depressing) majority that somehow finds them tolerable innevitably naturally-select themselves into oblivion.
