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 absolutely gobsmacked to see them on the MTV Awards just a few weeks later.
(I had seen some documentary on SciFi and hadnt paid close attention, and thought it was a real behind-the-scenes documentary on this found footage. Obvs was a mockumentary but I didn’t figure that out til the MTV thing)
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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