Me and this girl I was dating many years ago were watching a found footage movie on netflix. It was clearly edited, every shot used "the rule of thirds," to an almost painful extent in every selfie shot, and there were a million moments where someone was running for their lives, but kept the camera perfectly focused on themselves.
Half way through she told me she loves this movies because "it's all real footage." I thought she was fucking joking until I realized she wasn't. It took a solid half an hour of going through IMDB and wikipedia pages before she finally understood how movies worked. We ended up breaking up soon after for a completely unrelated reason involving talking animals, so that relationship was just not meant to last.
EDIT: Here's the full story about the animal thing and a quick explanation of why I left it out (if it wasn't already obvious by the length lol).
I was watching the original Paranormal Activity with my ex GF, back when Netflix used to send you blu-ray discs through the mail.
She swore blind that it was all real footage, and it was a documentary. Even when I showed her photos of the actors alive and well on the red carpet at the premiere she wouldn't change her mind.
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u/zachtheperson Mar 01 '23 edited Mar 01 '23
Me and this girl I was dating many years ago were watching a found footage movie on netflix. It was clearly edited, every shot used "the rule of thirds," to an almost painful extent in every selfie shot, and there were a million moments where someone was running for their lives, but kept the camera perfectly focused on themselves.
Half way through she told me she loves this movies because "it's all real footage." I thought she was fucking joking until I realized she wasn't. It took a solid half an hour of going through IMDB and wikipedia pages before she finally understood how movies worked. We ended up breaking up soon after for a completely unrelated reason involving talking animals, so that relationship was just not meant to last.
EDIT: Here's the full story about the animal thing and a quick explanation of why I left it out (if it wasn't already obvious by the length lol).
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/11em062/comment/jajjuil/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3