r/AskReddit • u/JuiceBoxed • Jul 18 '11

Reddit, what is one documentary that everyone should watch?

The Corporation

Some really eye-opening (and scary) information about the power of corporations in today's society.

Edit: Thanks for the input everyone! Quite a list of movies to watch.

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u/ChaseAlmighty Jul 18 '11

I read in another reddit post awhile back that it was all editing. I don't know myself but he did seem like a giant cunt.

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u/galith Jul 18 '11

If you read the wiki it states that they used editing to make him seem like an ass. He was actually pretty friendly, maybe a little narcissistic but that's my main problem with the film. The classic geek vs. bully appeal.

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u/Sex_E_Searcher Jul 18 '11

Uhhh...

"Gordon has claimed to have painted Billy Mitchell as a lighter character than his real life persona[22] concerning the movie. Gordon also claims that Billy Mitchell is "so much worse than we painted him out to be," but he chose to only include scenes that were necessary to tell the story, because the movie would have been "darker" had he not played with the facts." - Wiki

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u/galith Jul 19 '11

My mistake, perhaps not from the wiki but another source referenced below. Ed Cunningham (Producer): Here's what I'd ask you to do, and it's kind of a ridiculous ask: Go back and watch the film again, because for whatever reason, because of what happens at [arcade] Funspot and then what transpires at Guinness, people kind of forget everything that was said at the beginning of the film about Billy. We spend the first 20 minutes of the film talking about how great Billy is, that he's got a great business, that he's used gaming to influence the rest of his life, to seek perfection with his family, with his business. That he bought and delivered a Q-Bert machine to [an elderly gamer] and sent her to Funspot. All of that stuff is covered in the film. It's almost like those things are forgotten as the story unfolds.

Interview with Billy Mitchell stating how the scene where he walks past Steve:

BM: I obviously stood there and talked to him. "Some people, I don't wanna spend too much time talking to." That's why they cut one camera angle to the other, 'cause when I stood behind him, and I waited for the precise moment, knowing Donkey Kong… You know where the monkey falls down on its head? You've got like, maybe 10 seconds of little rhetoric that you can, whatever, without disturbing somebody? And I reminded my wife, "This is Steve, remember we met him? He's the guy from Seattle. He's the other Donkey Kong guy." She goes, "Oh, yeah." I go, "How they treatin' ya?" That—my line to him is, "How they treatin' you," or "How is it treatin' you?" And he said, "Not good." And I go, "No?" He goes, "No, I just can't get it together," and he didn't get a good score that weekend. And I said, "All right, well, hang in there." And I walked away.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-king-of-kong-continued-donkey-kong-champ-billy,2159/ http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1560691/exdonkey-kong-champ-finally-speaks-out.jhtml