I seriously have no idea if its true. Does anyone actually know the truth?
2007-06-05 17:34:59 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
It's all fiction. They made an incredible marketing campaign around it being "true". It's been agreed that if the campaign didn't exist, then the movie would have bombed.
At the Sundance film festival leaflets were passed around with the actors' faces with the words "MISSING" written on it, as well as several fake newsclips that were used for movie trailers.
The story of it being made was even more interesting. The actors actually had very little direction or dialogue. They were given a map & told to go to several different places in the woods. When they got to a new area they'd find a note, some protein bars & water, & more directions. However, after a while the actors actually began to be afraid that they were part of some sick fetish, & that began to feed into their acting.
2007-06-05 17:57:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the truth is that it is total fiction. The Blair Witch Project is a movie and everything in it is fictional. It had a super-clever marketing campaign, presenting the film as being about a true occurance. It was really the first to use the Internet the way it did, spreading interest in the movie by word of mouth, and that fooled a lot of people into thinking it was true. When information first started to trickle onto the Internet about it, people really were debating whether it was real or not. Because of this, "Blair Witch" was the most successful independent film ever up to that point. We saw it when it was in the theaters and we liked it a lot, it *scared the hell* out of us, but it's fiction.
2007-06-05 17:52:01 · answer #2 · answered by Nightlight 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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. 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[citation needed]. The program contained "interviews" with friends and relatives of the missing students, paranormal experts, and local historians. This was done so extensively that the three main actors were listed for a time as "missing, presumed dead" on IMDb. 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).
So in other words... It was not real but they planned it so well in the marketing area that made it seem believable... Heck! I remember watching the mockumentary in Sci-Fi and wasn't able to sleep for a whole week... Yiikkeess!!!
2007-06-05 17:43:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The movie is just a work of fiction. The movie utilizes a "false document" technique which is used to make it seem as though footage is real, when the whole thing is just being acted.
2007-06-05 17:39:13 · answer #4 · answered by Mary K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont know if the idea is real,
but when the first movie came out they tried to make it look so real. It was made to be real.
then came the movie awards (not sure which) and the three main stars come out to present a award.
that was the first time i knew it wasnt real.
2007-06-05 17:53:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, it was a movie gimmick, the three actors in the film hid out of a sight for a month before the movie came out. the girl heather, she actually starred in a mini series called Taken. so that means she's alive.
2007-06-05 20:39:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was fictional. they created it to entertain, much like the texas chainsaw massacre. it may have been based off of true stories but it was forced into the public to be viewed as entertaining, which it was. it served it's purpose and created a buzz around the movie boosting sales.
2007-06-05 17:46:33 · answer #7 · answered by Jaclyn N 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it was real.
It won the award for best documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.
2007-06-05 18:29:50 · answer #8 · answered by Jim T 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is just an impressive mocumentary but is in no way real or authentic
2007-06-05 17:41:22 · answer #9 · answered by Experto Credo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
was filmed on about 100 acres -
had to keep dodging people and traffic
what a hoot - and we believed it was real
great job !
2007-06-05 17:38:12 · answer #10 · answered by tom4bucs 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋