I mean, the actors who play in the film are the same as the characters that supposedly went missing.
Someone told me that in the film, the parts in colour were made up, and the parts in black and white were the pieces of film found. Is this true?
2007-02-07 04:32:45 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Check the Internet Movie Database. It will tell you all about the movie. If in doubt whether the film is a hoax or not, check the actors. They've worked since they died. Now that's dedication to ones craft.
The story is all but completely made up, based loosely on some legend about a witch - perhaps the Bell Witch - and this tenuous connection is used to claim that it's based on a true story. They then shoot the movie as they did and let the audience assume the rest. Much like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (also claimed to be based on a true story although it is not), the Blair Witch Project did this as a marketing ploy.
2007-02-07 04:46:53 · answer #1 · answered by Greg H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they made that up to get people talking about the movie!!
The film was marketed heavily via the Internet, and parts of the film were aired on the Independent Film Channel's Split Screen TV series. Heated Internet discussions broke out as to whether the film was real or not.[10] Some also wondered if some of the fan enthusiasm was generated covertly by the film studios.[14] It had an unusually receptive audience at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival where it made headlines as the first film sold.[2][8]
The teaser poster and other advertisements for the film were designed to reinforce the 'documentary' concept, leading many people to think the film was an actual documentary, and that the three protagonists really had disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland.[2] To reinforce this idea, the Sci-Fi Channel aired a fake documentary, Curse of the Blair Witch, that claimed to investigate the legend surrounding the movie right before the film's release. The program contained interviews with friends and relatives of the missing students, paranormal experts, and local historians (all fabricated, of course). This was done so extensively that the three main actors were listed for a time as "missing, presumed dead" on IMDb.[5] While attending the Cannes Film Festival, the producers put up missing posters featuring the three stars of the film, which were removed the next day following the actual kidnapping of a television executive (who was later recovered and returned home safely).[6]
Though Artisan is marketing the movie as a true story of horror— a compilation of the "found footage" from the still-missing Maryland film students— Myrick and Sanchez don't try to obscure the issue. "What are we going to do? Say, 'Oh, yeah, it's totally real,' and then suffer the backlash? We're definitely telling everyone it's fiction if they ask us, because there's a lot to be said about the Method approach we took in making it."
2007-02-07 04:47:55 · answer #2 · answered by partypooper 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess I had a unique perspective on the film because where it "supposedly happened" was 30 min from where I grew up and lived, and that the three were students at a community college right up the street from me. I was not real. The big giveaway was that the "stars" appeared on talk shows after the movie came out :-).
However, that being said, I thought they did a pretty decent job with it. If I hadn't KNOWN it was fake, it probably would have scared the crap outta me.
2007-02-07 04:41:56 · answer #3 · answered by Brian D 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not 100% sure but what I heard was that it was true which was before it actually came out in theatres, but then afterwards I heard that it being true was all a lie
2007-02-07 04:36:46 · answer #4 · answered by Crash 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a great marketing scheme. They made it all up, but promoted it as if it were real. Many people believed it was real, which made it much scarier.
2007-02-07 04:35:50 · answer #5 · answered by dividedsky58 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Of course it was made up. You fell for the whole thing. Don't tell me you really believe in witches???
2007-02-07 04:41:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It was completely fake. It was all hype to get people to waste their money. I thought the movie sucked. It was not scary in the least bit.
2007-02-07 17:28:57 · answer #7 · answered by Charles 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was totally made up.
2007-02-07 04:36:06 · answer #8 · answered by raidenzz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I asked the same question four times, and didn't receive a good answer
2016-08-23 17:20:35 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is classified as a movie not as a documentary, docu-drama or, fictionalized fact.
2007-02-07 05:42:18 · answer #10 · answered by L e 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋