Wednesday, April 4, 2012
It's all in the ending
Often times in popular documentaries the end result of the story is slightly changed to better suit the positive image portrayed. I'm not sure if this is a documentary but the movie "Friday night Lights" is about a Texas high school football team that loses their best player to injury after they were favored to win the state championship. In the movie the school Odessa-Permian Panthers make it all the way to state but lose to Dallas Carter. In reality, the team doesn't even make the playoffs and after Booby Miles tears his MCL the season goes down the drain. The real question I'm getting at is does the director have the ability to at his own discretion change the events of the movie. I'm not saying that the entire outcome must be changed but often, to make it more exciting they will make the games closer than in reality. The real question is whether or not this is okay to draw in more audience? Do documentaries have to be strictly on the events of real life or can they be fudged a little?
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Nate: great question when you write, "The real question I'm getting at is does the director have the ability to at his own discretion change the events of the movie."
ReplyDeleteI wonder if documentarians have more of an obligation to be "truthful" than the director of a fictional film. Are there any examples you can think of when a documentarian seems to take liberties with the truth?
Also: I don't follow the title of your post, and I think "F.N. Lights" isn't a documentary.