Harvey Weinstein, Troy Duffy

Troy Duffy. Avoid this moron.

There was a documentary in which Harvey Weinstein didn't appear but played a role off-camera. Overnight was the story of moronic bartender Troy Duffy. I've written about it before on here.

Duffy was from Boston, was in a band. Boston wasn't big enough for them so they took the band to Los Angeles. He wrote a screenplay called Boondock Saints and was about to sell it to some other producer, so Weinstein, just to ruin the deal for other guy, rushed in and bought the script without reading it. He gave Duffy a better deal, letting him direct the movie and throwing in a recording contract for his band that no one had seen or heard.

Documentary filmmakers went to work filming the rags-to-riches story. It didn't turn out the way they thought. It was released with the title Overnight.

I haven't seen it in a while. I can't remember all of it. But Duffy was a moron. He thought threatening people was a good negotiating tactic. He said, "We got a deep cesspool of creativity here." He refused to pay anyone in the band, he thought Harvey Weinstein wished he were him, he said he showed up at meetings hungover wearing overalls and he thought this was admirable in some way.

When things start to fall apart and he doesn't know what to do, he says, "Is there anyone else we can threaten?"

There's a scene where he speaks to Ray Carney's class at Boston University. He starts pointing at individual students and telling them they will never make it in the movie industry.

I don't want to give away the ending, but it doesn't go well. He finally makes the movie but with a lot less money for different producers. And he made such a bad deal with them that he gets nothing from DVD sales or television. All he gets is a cut from the brief theatrical release which was only done to publicize the DVD.

Poor fool.