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458. Directorpiece Theatre: Designing Authenticity and The Blair Witch Project
🕑 Added 2022-02-07 14:00:07 +0000 UTC
Adam walks us through how the phenomenon of 1999’s The Blair Witch Project informed all the filmmaker’s choices while making the film and how the atypical production designed a genre. Abe is there to help.
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Comments
Jason Olshefsky
Agree it's not a movie for the sake of entertainment, but a moment in time. I was probably the ideal audience member: in my 20s with access to the Internet, and my friend found the prototype site on haxan.com so it seemed even more authentic, and finally I saw it as a bootleg on two CD-Rs which we piped to a TV from a computer. It was glorious. I was sure it was not real, but only 99% sure, and I enjoyed dabbling in that 1% chance and embracing the experience. The "Blair Witch experience" so-to-speak definitely demonstrated the allure of conspiracy theory.
Harris Nye
Glad I held off on commenting on how weird it is nobody got a career off this until you guys got to it yourselves
