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Hollywood Con Queen

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  • 2024
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Hollywood Con Queen (2024)
Showcases an Indonesian man's elaborate Con Queen scam.
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Exploring the story of an international con artist impersonating the industry's most powerful women; based on the original reporting of veteran investigative journalist Scott Johnson for the... Read allExploring the story of an international con artist impersonating the industry's most powerful women; based on the original reporting of veteran investigative journalist Scott Johnson for the Hollywood Reporter.Exploring the story of an international con artist impersonating the industry's most powerful women; based on the original reporting of veteran investigative journalist Scott Johnson for the Hollywood Reporter.

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    • Hargobind Tahilramani
    • Scott Johnson
    • Chris Smith
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      • Scott Johnson
      • Chris Smith
    • 12User reviews
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    5sophiealexandrine

    Background music overload

    My. God. Could you calm down with the constant background music? It gives the sense of total overproduction and ends up making the whole experience feel low budget and desperate to seem modern and hip. Dynamics lack because the music tries to make the whole show feel like a constant climax. Feels like being talked down to as a viewer really.......................... Such a shame cause it's obviously an important story and made by someone who really tried to be thorough. And a bit too thorough too - very slow paced making you feel like they were desperate to stretch the story into as many episodes as possible.
    6TheTruthofItIs

    Decent accounting of pursuing a conman

    "Hollywood Con Queen" (one season (2024), 3 eps, 1 hr, Apple+) This short run documentary uncovers the fraud of dozens of low-level Hollywooders perpetuated by someone at first thought to be a woman of voice impersonations but turns out to be someone else, someone who's "sweet" and "light on their feet" but obsessively annoying, too. My takeaway from this is how the US DoJ/FBI once again leaves it up to others to develop a case till it rises to their standards of interest. Even with plenty of evidence of fraud presented to them, the FBI did not take on the case till it hit the $1 million level. This is especially egregious since the con man was operating internationally which should've pushed them to immediate involvement, whatever. The conclusion of the tale is not really solid, some justice is achieved, but the tale doesn't end with a conviction and sentencing, that still is yet to play out apparently.
    8eluke75

    Very well done, spot on pace, intelligent and engaging

    This subject can hit a soft spot with some people that makes them review it unfairly and attempt to bring detraction to negative aspects of the film that really are not there. Because the reality is this film is bringing to light to an issue that does not start and stop with the main subject matter of this film. I was surprised how much the film makers were able to cover in the amount of time. Due credit to them, navigating a complex situation that has been traumatic for many.

    The journalist takes the viewer on a journey of discovery and gives a very real personal account for their own experience. This is important to see that the impact is not confined to the victims and therefore a more accurate account of the true nature of the issue at hand.
    6zwolsa

    The music ruins a good story

    The story is interesting and it's amazing what some people are capable of doing. What ruins the experience is the music. There is literally not a second without it and on my TV the music has the same volume as the narrators. What's wrong with the sound people in the industry? There are almost no movies anymore, where the music and effects are not double as loud as the voices. Don't you have TVs at home or neighbour's? I'm looking at you, sound designers. But this is the worst so far. Most of the time I was reading the subtitles because the voices are really hard to understand. I don't care if it's technically difficult with all the different sound formats and devices. Solve this. 8 stars for the story, 2 for the sound design, so I'm giving six (I know that this is mathematically not correct but I don't want to thrash an actually good documentary).
    7FinleyKolapo

    Worth Watching, But Too Long

    I think the story can be a good lesson on scam awareness, making it worth watching. However, the nearly three-hour runtime felt unnecessarily long to me. The start of the first episode successfully hooked me, but the second episode suffered from repetitive dialogues, filler monologues and seemingly stretched expositions, which all came across to me as redundant.

    Showing the efforts made to track down the scammer was intriguing, but I don't think that literally every single detail needs to be depicted so exhaustively. For example, in the second episode, there are many scenes of the journalist selfie style portrait video showing him monologuing to his phone. It's redundant because the journalist was already being interviewed by the film crew.

    Towards the end, it felt weird because the journalist seemingly makes all this to be about himself.

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