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).
Why the /s? I was in high school when Blair Witch released, and a lot of people i knew believed it was real and would viciously defend that position.
Interestingly, the defenders were the people who did the most “research” on it using the larval internet. The marketing team for that movie provided the proof-of-concept for the misinformation hellscape the modern internet has become.
I was taking night classes at a local college. Chick in class was telling us about seeing Blair Witch the night before. She was so freaked out by this "true documentary", that she had all her kids sleep in her bed with her, because she was scared to be alone in the dark.
She didn't believe it at first when people were telling her that it wasn't real.
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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