description on the Kickstarter page does suggest that a lot of it was in fact going to be about Jeopardy! rather than just about Chu, or for that matter about social justice.
Here is an article written by Arthur Chu that seems to suggest otherwise:
I didn't want the focus of the movie to be Jeopardy! even if that's the obvious selling point. And it's not about me being a "genius" or me sharing words of wisdom or advice that I don't have. Who Is Arthur Chu? Arthur Chu is nobody special. Just another loser. A loser who's had a run of good luck and is trying to leverage that into doing better. And being better.
So, it's not about Chu being a smart person, or a successful person, but about Chu being a good person. (Where "good" probably happens to be more or less the same thing as "belonging to political faction X".)
My feeling is that you may be being at least one notch too cynical.
Am I? For the record, I consider it likely that Arthur Chu sincerely believes his own story, where he is the good guy on the right side of the history. He probably also overestimates his own smartness, and believes that the ethical injunctions made for lesser mortals do not apply to him. (And I believe he is obviously wrong at this point.) I would also guess that he has a good heart and that he hates himself more than he should, but that's just unbased speculation.
(And I am not saying this about everyone. For example, I also believe that those people who have raised 10× more money for their videoblogs, they do not truly believe their cause. Which is why they made a successful plan and got the money, but Arthur didn't. He made a few mistakes that would be obvious to a cynical person. For example, he didn't put a high-status-behaving white girl into his movie. But that's where the real money and power are in his faction. Arthur, by being a true believer, does not recognize the rules of the game, and fails.)
My political faction is not the same as yours, though, and it's possible that I'm being one notch too un-cynical instead.
Okay, I'll try to convert you to the dark side (and also give you a chance to convert me, by the law of conservation of expected evidence). If Arthur Chu is such a defender of oppressed people, give me an example of a black woman or a lower-class woman that he has defended publicly (calling her by her name, not merely as a part of a large anonymous group). Because I can give you an example of a rich white woman.
Again, for the record, I consider it likely that Arthur Chu is blind about what I am suggesting here; that he is clueless instead of hypocritical.
an article written by Arthur Chu that seems to suggest otherwise
Except that the article says that Chu doesn't want the focus just to be Jeopardy!, not that Scott Drucker (the person who was actually proposing to make the movie, and the person whose Kickstarter it was) doesn't want it to be. And my reading of both Chu's article and the Kickstarter page is that Drucker's goals were not necessarily the same as Chu's, even though obviously both were hoping that cooperating with the other guy would do something for both people's goals.
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