Post by marianne48 on Sept 3, 2020 0:56:46 GMT
When The Blair Witch Project was first released, many people thought it was an actual documentary of a true incident, and believed that the three actors in the film were real people who had actually been killed, etc. While that's understandable since it was done as a serious film, what's not quite as understandable is that a lot of people believe that the comedy "mockumentary" This is Spinal Tap was also a chronicle of a real band. (Liam Gallagher of Oasis, for example, believed this). Despite the fact that there's one obvious absurdity in the film (the recurring gag of the exploding drummer), some viewers didn't realize that the band members were actors and the band had never existed. Several of these comedies that I've seen have tried to be realistic, but often contain one element of impossibility--for instance, in Best in Show, about dog competitions, Eugene Levy's character has two left feet (literally). Do the filmmakers deliberately include one element of absurdity in each of these films in the hope that viewers will recognize that it's not a real documentary?
