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Oof. Bird Box uses actual footage of the Lac Megantic rail explosion. -- nm

Posted by Reagen Jan 17 '19, 09:09

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Not to be contrary, but isn't tons of the scenes we see in many movies about war/violence/terror attacks taken from actual news footage? -- nm - oblique Jan 17, 09:52 10
- If it's "film that's specifically about the thing the footage is of" that's completely different than "thing we totally made up". -- nm - Reagen Jan 17, 09:57 9
  - I mean, look at any disaster movie showing people rioting, etc. Certainly not all that is staged for each movie making it? -- nm - oblique Jan 17, 10:09 2
    - Also, it should be noted that when looking for footage, we usually don't know when or where it's from. - Guigue Jan 17, 10:13 1
      - I havent seen Bird Box but I'm pretty sure it's not about Lac Megantic. -- nm - mud Jan 17, 10:14
  - Right. If I'm going to see a film about 9/11, I expect to see actual footage of 9/11. nm - Uhtred, son of Uhtred Jan 17, 09:59 4
    - So I guess my assumption is (at a basic level), that is a recognizable event. But isn't that true of basically any event at some level. It is going - oblique Jan 17, 10:11 3
      - Stock footage of a random tornado in the middle of nowhere isn't going to be noticed and likely no one would care. - Reagen Jan 17, 10:18 2
        
        But like I said up there, there's no easy way to know what the footage is exactly -- (edited) - Guigue Jan 17, 10:24 1
        
        Maybe that should start being part of it? -- nm - Reagen Jan 17, 10:28
  - What if it's "news broadcast in the context of increasing instability in the earth's core"? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 17, 09:58
Spoiler! -- nm - Spawn Jan 17, 09:26
I have to say, I can't see what the big deal is about -- (edited) - Guigue Jan 17, 09:12 12
- Eh - i'm usually pretty open to "show what you want" but it makes me feel a little gross to think a movie would use footage of an actual tragedy - Uhtred, son of Uhtred Jan 17, 09:19 10
  - And yet it happens *all the time*. Often it's gonna be oversea, for a tragedy we're not really aware of, but is vastly cheaper - Guigue Jan 17, 09:40 9
    - And if I knew about it going in, I'd probably skip that film. nm - Uhtred, son of Uhtred Jan 17, 09:47
    - I would suggest this is something the vast majority doesn't know is happening. -- nm - Reagen Jan 17, 09:43 7
      - If you browse stock footage site like Pond5, you'll find thousands of images from real life catastrophe for sale - Guigue Jan 17, 09:50 5
        
        I am... unsympathetic... to the cost issue. -- nm - Reagen Jan 17, 10:00 4
        
        Word. -- nm - Uhtred, son of Uhtred Jan 17, 10:12
        
        I just think it's a little weird no one bothered to do a news report on the issue before someone used images from something that happened close by - Guigue Jan 17, 10:06 2
        
        You're assuming "didn't care" when it's likely "didn't know". -- nm - Reagen Jan 17, 10:12 1
        
        I'm pretty sure TV stations and newspaper know the footage they buy from the same place can be used for commercial products - Guigue Jan 17, 10:20
      - I suppose Vice is different because it's a biopic but it uses actual torture footage in the movie. Mile 22 types use that stuff frequently. -- nm - Max Jan 17, 09:45
- If Roland Emmerich's next "blow up everybody" film used actual footage from 9/11 in a fictional context, he'd be *crucified*. -- nm - Reagen Jan 17, 09:16
yeesh -- nm - mud Jan 17, 09:11

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