kind of obsessed with the new trend of sites like buzzfeed using terms like “lying” and “fooling you” regarding storylines/couples/film techniques in movies and tv. wandavision is gaslighting you into thinking superheroes are real! this actor had a stunt double do this particular stunt, he TRICKED you! these actors LIED and made you think that they’re together when ACTUALLY they’re married to other people!
i don’t know how to tell you this buzzfeed but sometimes fictional stories are fictional
ok no i have more to say about this
it’s that fuckin CinemaSins instinct to go “haha, i know more than the filmmakers! rose from titanic wasn’t a real person, DING that’s a sin! the blood and guts in the saw movies is actually corn syrup, DING that’s a sin! they weren’t smart enough to FOOL ME, which is the point of movies! to fool and trick the audience! ding!”
and that then feeds into the instinct from filmmakers to erase immersion from narrative storytelling, the same reasoning behind the joss whedon bullshit trend of characters pointing out how their own stories don’t make sense in the hope of preempting their own audience, wrecking their own suspension of disbelief out of the fear that the audience will, the “why are we singing?” moment in musicals, the “they can fly now?” moment in Star Wars, the immediate scramble to explain and explain until you’re not left with a story, you’re left with a Wikipedia summary. and it fucking sucks.
tldr it’s okay to watch movies and let yourself believe, for 1 hour 55 minutes, that superheroes are real, or that a monster might destroy a fictional city. you’re allowed to buy the chemistry between two characters without thinking “these two people would never get along in real life”. not everything has to have a bulletproof plot with 10000% realism. it’s okay to let fiction be fictional without feeling tricked or fooled by it.
YES! say THIS!!