Bloodstained Memoirs is an independent documentary showing an insight into the world of professional wrestling by a 22year old David Sinnott of the UK that he calls “a high budget and professional prodcution”.
This intrepid young filmmaker has managed to secure select moments with some of the industry’s more notable stars and has been working on this since 2005. But when brought to a recent conflict over an appointment to interview Canadian Wrestling legend, Bret Hart Sinnott has managed to do nothing more than reveal his own immature and unprofessional side. He was certain to have been approved to have an interview by a member of his management, and when he showed up no one knew about it.
Tough luck really. I am certain this situation would have been frustrating and very hard to deal with, but things fall through in film all the time. Especially when nothing was on paper, and nothing more than a lot of talk on emails took place. He presumes that this casual approach is how deals are done in the bigs, but the rule I have always heard is that NOTHING is certain til its signed on the dotted line. So he shows up at a gig where he is told there will be no interviews and instead of blaming this full on with the contact he was negotiating with, he unloads this on Brett. Oh she gets some fingers pointed at her too, but the rant – aka: Press Release – is more directed at personal attacks on Mr Hart.
From his film’s MySpace page Sinnott manages to spew:
Bret Hart no longer deserves a place in Bloodstained Memoirs, alongside such class acts as Chris Jericho, Rob Van Dam and Mick Foley. He isn’t deserving to be mentioned in the same breathe as those people. As a wrestler, of course. But not as a person. The footage we shot of him will be vaulted and will probably never see the light of day. And to prove this isn’t just smoke, Bret Hart can go public and state he wants the footage in the documentary if he wants to – it wont be going in. As for this carrot of an interview they are still trying to dangle in front of me – they can shove it up their ass holes. And Bret, I’ll draw a little cartoon of that for you if you’d like?
Wow, those are some pretty strong words that seem to be coming from a playground tactic of lashing out in a “Yeah? Well you are a stupid head!” mentality.
Even from his tainted recounting of the situation it is pretty clear that the issue was to be had with Marcy, Bret’s consulting manager who appeared to be laying a line of confidence that this event would take place. Her failure to communicate this to Bret or co-ordinate this with the event organizers they planned to meet him at would solely be her fault. Shit happens. I can see the frustration presented here. I hold no fault in the upsetting circumstances this would have created. He thought he had this all arranged.
But the tirade of personal attacks he lays down at the foot of Bret Hart, attacking his character, degrading the man and digging up dirt to fling in his face is just childish. Seems Mr Hart was significant enough of a person to include in your film a week ago, but now because he doesn’t hop in front of a film crew without the confirmation of his professional consulting manager, you have to demean his character and strip any of your previously hopeful outlook on the man?
Those I know who have been following the progress of this little film have lost all hope in the “professional production” you are hoping to project Mr Sinnott. In your efforts to disgrace Mr Hart’s image to his fans, all you have done is expose your own social inequities.
The best reaction I have heard yet came from TheBitterGuy who said “A professional thing to do might have been to end it after the first nine words: “Bret Hart will not be appearing in Bloodstained Memoirs”.”
That would have been the end of the press release. Instead it is the end of David Sinnott’s integrity.
