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In response to "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" by oblique

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

Posted by Reagen Jan 17 '19, 09:57

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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

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