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At what age did you realize Faces of Death was fake?
Posted on 6/20/17 at 12:26 pm
Posted on 6/20/17 at 12:26 pm
obviously some of the clips are real, but the really famous scenes are totally fake
i was about 16, and it was my first viewing of FoD. multiple camera angles and editing = fake. i had never seen real death videos before, but the entire set up was obviously not real.
i remember arguing into college with people about how they were fake. this is when "shock sites" like orgish and rotten.com were available to see real death videos (for comparison's sake). it was unbelievable to me that mid-20s persons thought these scenes were real
it reminded me of telling kids in elementary school that Santa Claus wasn't real, when they should have known better
i was about 16, and it was my first viewing of FoD. multiple camera angles and editing = fake. i had never seen real death videos before, but the entire set up was obviously not real.
i remember arguing into college with people about how they were fake. this is when "shock sites" like orgish and rotten.com were available to see real death videos (for comparison's sake). it was unbelievable to me that mid-20s persons thought these scenes were real
it reminded me of telling kids in elementary school that Santa Claus wasn't real, when they should have known better
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Posted on 6/20/17 at 12:30 pm to SlowFlowPro
Posted on 6/20/17 at 12:38 pm to colorchangintiger
first argument: with Justin Lai (where we watched FoD the first time)
Posted on 6/20/17 at 12:40 pm to SlowFlowPro
When I learned how to use slo mo on the vcr to see it wasn't real
Posted on 6/20/17 at 12:40 pm to colorchangintiger
Probably around 20. I didn't watch much of them until then.
Posted on 6/20/17 at 12:44 pm to SlowFlowPro
I think everyone realizes it the first time they watch it. You may have the one brooding dark classmate who insists that it's real as part of his awakening to the way the world really works.
Posted on 6/20/17 at 12:47 pm to SlowFlowPro
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it was unbelievable to me that mid-20s persons thought these scenes were real
It's amazing to me that so many adults, especially 50+ years old, believe reality shows are real.
Posted on 6/20/17 at 12:49 pm to SlowFlowPro
Brutal anal didlo pink sock
Posted on 6/20/17 at 12:50 pm to colorchangintiger
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believe reality shows are real.
frick let's not stop there
throw in news interviews and media personalities
Posted on 6/20/17 at 12:58 pm to SlowFlowPro
Only thing I really remember from FoD is the monkey brain scene, which is faked. Been too long to remember anything else.
Posted on 6/20/17 at 1:06 pm to SlowFlowPro
I've never seen it... so I just realized this today when you told me.
It doesn't surprise me at all.
It doesn't surprise me at all.
Posted on 6/20/17 at 3:33 pm to SlowFlowPro
Remember the pedestrian getting smoked by the train? No way that was fake. That lady's head exploded.
Posted on 6/20/17 at 3:43 pm to willeaux
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Remember the pedestrian getting smoked by the train? No way that was fake. That lady's head exploded.
This.
Only thing I can remember from FoD but it stayed with me.
Posted on 6/20/17 at 3:50 pm to PowerTool
It was difficult to get a copy of it. There were a few kids in grade school that had seen it.
And tried to impress with gory details and then once others saw it, word got around that it wasn't what was being said.
Red Asphalt in driver's ed years later was worse than Faces of Death
And tried to impress with gory details and then once others saw it, word got around that it wasn't what was being said.
Red Asphalt in driver's ed years later was worse than Faces of Death
Posted on 6/20/17 at 4:06 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Red Asphalt in driver's ed years later was worse than Faces of Death
True. We also had to watch some CPR/emergency training video that featured construction workers cutting off their hands and shite.
This post was edited on 6/20/17 at 4:07 pm
Posted on 6/20/17 at 7:05 pm to SlowFlowPro
As with pro wrestling, I knew it was fake, but virtually every other kid (and probably teacher) in my school bought it hook, line, and sinker.
Deadspin has an interview with the writer. It's 5 years old, but I just ran across it a few weeks ago. Fun read.
LINK
About those monkey brains:
Deadspin has an interview with the writer. It's 5 years old, but I just ran across it a few weeks ago. Fun read.
LINK
About those monkey brains:
quote:
"Cauliflower for the brains," Schwartz says. "Theater blood for the blood."
...They made a special table to restrain the monkey, then hit it in the head with Styrofoam mallets. "Him going so crazy was just perfect," he says. "When we cut away, we put a prosthetic head there. Cut back to a wide shot. Open the skull."
Posted on 6/20/17 at 11:32 pm to willeaux
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Remember the pedestrian getting smoked by the train? No way that was fake. That lady's head exploded.
Yea.
She popped like a zit.
Posted on 6/21/17 at 7:35 am to willeaux
Read an article that said around 30% was real...the other 70% was either staged (like the monkeys) or altered (like the suicide jump -- lady jumping was real, the splat and the closeup was not).
Posted on 6/21/17 at 9:45 am to willeaux
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Remember the pedestrian getting smoked by the train?
some of the clips are real footage of death
the scenes i'm talking about are the "money scenes" that are obviously fake (the most famous may be the monkey scene)
if you want to see what i'm talking about, google "faces of death alligator" where the sheriff gets taken out. it's so bad (and for a time, famous). it's also not really gory so i almost linked it but only didn't out of an abundance of caution
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