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We really enjoyed Emily in Paris -- it's quaint and charming. The Lily Collins (Phil Collins daughter) plays Emily as such an upbeat and charismatic character. One thing I really like is that none of the story relies on prolonged misunderstandings. Whenever there's something that might get misinterpreted, Emily confronts it headon. Ten half-hour episodes displaying all the beauty of Paris.
The latest episode was "Witches."
Of course, you know they are going to talk about The Blair Witch.
Broken record that I am, I never liked this movie. I started out liking it. The documentary feel talking to the townspeople was excellent. I was invested. While the lead girl was annoying as **** from the beginning, I understood her self importance -- by God, she was making a documentary! and she was the star!
I was with these 3 people up until the second night of shaky camera running through a dark forest with snot dripping and every other word a cussword. Which believe me, I cuss like the sailor who invented sailor cussing -- but it just was so stiff. It was overacted and they lost me. Night after night, running through the dark forest screaming -- day after day, cussing each other out going for the edgy confrontation and coming off ridiculous. Boring as hell.
Stephen King was so scared, he had to shut the movie off. And I never understood this. Until I watched this latest episode of HofH. In it, Stephen says he was in the hospital on a lot of drugs when he watched it and it was just too much for him. Now I get it. Now I understand where he was coming from.
I did gain some appreciation for the movie after one of the actors told a little more about the making of the movie. Apparently, they had no contact with the director or management of any kind. They were given a map and they were told to make it to a certain spot at a certain time. So, the actors knew that something was going to be at each location, but they didn't know what. The acting wasn't scripted. A certain reaction was asked for, but how they got there, what was said was up to them. There were certain scene goals given to the actors for each point, but how they went about achieving the director's vision was pretty impromptu it sounds like. If I understood him right.
I can appreciate that creativity. I like that. So, apparently the snot girl's up-the-nose light shot was a pretty honest reaction to what was going on around them.
Knowing that does make me like what was happening much more. I'm going to watch it again with this information and see if I can look at it with different eyes now.
and it came out a year before blair.
I wouldn't say it's exactly found footage. It's more like home movies shown to solve a case, like one of those crime shows. Everyone weighs in on what happened, why, who done it etc..... It's more about current people analyzing the guys who did the videos. Interviewing others. Talking to friends and family. The end was a nice little shake up. A documentary within a documentary sort of thing.
The Blair Witch was all about the found footage. No one commenting on it other than the 3 documentarians themselves. We strictly see things through their eyes.
We get placards inserted giving us a set up, but we don't have real time people discussing it within the movie itself.
Where it would be like The Last Broadcast is if someone found the Blair Witch tapes and then we had all the experts weigh in on it. Friends and family talking about the individuals. The townspeople talking about the 3 kids who came to make a documentary. The people discussing the crime, disappearances. THe police giving us updates on the case.
So, not exactly the same in my mind.
Still, I enjoyed the movie. Creative.