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LOS ANGELES — Amanda Knox, the American woman who was tried and acquitted of murder in Italy more than a decade ago, has hit out at a Hollywood movie that she said seeks to profit off her name without her consent.
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Knox, who spent four years in jail in Perugia, Italy, before being acquitted of the 2007 murder of her roommate, expressed her frustration as “Stillwater” opened in U.S. movie theaters this week.
Director Tom McCarthy has said the Amanda Knox case inspired the film about an American oil rig worker who travels to France to help his daughter who is in prison for a murder she says she didn’t commit.
The movie, starring Matt Damon, is seen as a potential Oscar contender.
“Does my name belong to me? My face? What about my life? My story? Why does my name refer to events I had no hand in? I return to these questions because others continue to profit off my name, face, & story without my consent. Most recently, the film #STILLWATER,” Knox wrote in a lengthy post on her Twitter account on Thursday.
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The Stillwater filmmakers did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In a recent interview with the Toronto Sun, Damon said the film was loosely inspired by the Knox case, but is a “much more human story.”
“I think (co-writer and director) Tom (McCarthy) said the Knox case was a jumping off point,” Damon said. “But he was interested in what happens years later. When the cameras have gone away and the sensationalism dies down — what happens to the family? What if the dad was just a blue-collar guy from Oklahoma? What would life look like for these folks? … I don’t want anyone to go thinking it’s anything about Amanda Knox.”
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Knox, now 34 and working as a criminal justice activist, said that the movie “reinforces an image of me as a guilty and untrustworthy person.”
“I have not been allowed to return to the relative anonymity I had before Perugia,” Knox said. “My only option is to sit idly by while others continue to distort my character, or fight to restore my good reputation that was wrongfully destroyed.”
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She invited McCarthy and Damon to hear her point of view by appearing on her “Labyrinths” podcast, which deals with issues ranging from justice to her personal life.
Rudy Guede, a local man, was found guilty of the murder in Perugia and was sentenced to 16 years in prison.
Amanda Knox blasts Matt Damon's 'Stillwater' for profiting off her story - Toronto Sun
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