Prankvertising: promo video for 'Carrie' remake features lady in NYC cafe with powers of telekinesis, rage

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It just confirms my distaste for reaction shots.

This is probably better than the film, and this wasā€¦ kinda eh, but I like the concept in theory.

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I suppose I prefer ā€œprankvertisementsā€ over your basic, you know, advertisements.

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Cool idea, dumb execution. But thatā€™s what you get when greed leads creativity.

If this real, I can only imagine that someday soon, some innocent bystander is going to have a heart attack and die in a prank like this. Or run out into the street in panic and get run over. Or pull out a weapon and attack the girl with psychic powers. Orā€¦

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itā€™s even more basic. they just donā€™t want someone getting whacked by those rc chairs or the spring-loaded books, and suing.

but it does raise the nagging possibility that everyone is an actor, which really detracts from the experience. ah well.

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Itā€™s all fun-and-games until the easily-frightened-yet-vigilant person with a concealed handgun permit walks in. (Not shown.)

Meta-prank: A situation in which an observer believes they are watching someone fall victim to a prank, but the entire situation is in fact a deception created to manipulate the observer.

thatā€™s a pretty rare beast in nyc. (the gun permit part at least.)

They are definitely all actors - this isnā€™t done to random people off the street. (Why would a random construction worker carry a pipe into a coffee shop?)

The only real question, imo, is whether or not the ā€œmarkā€ actors are told in advance what is going to happen. Sort of like hiring people for one psych test but actually conducting another one, it allows you to control for a variety of variables (heart condition, concealed weapon) in a situation where they are unlikely to act violently, while still getting a ā€œgenuineā€ shot of someone completely surprised by what is happening.

Or they are all just told up front what is going on.

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Iā€™m w/ the last sentence in the post: none of the remakes or sequels came close to the original movie. Some things were not meant to be copied. My moneyā€™s on Carrie taking her revenge on the whole cast & crew :smile:

I wonder how many of these are being filmed, and one smart guy figures out whatā€™s really going on, walks right into the mayhem and calmly asks, ā€œOkay - What movie is this about ?ā€ - Only to have all trace of himself edited out.

But then, thereā€™s the more likely probability that EVERYBODY on camera is actually an actor, including the ā€œreacteesā€.

On one hand I would dislike being tricked into making a de facto commercial for a film (or any product) via a prank video designed to go viral.

On the other hand I think the world needs more weird randomness (or random weirdness), and I would probably have gotten a kick out of witnessing this live. I certainly got a kick out of seeing people freaked out, even if some of them were faking.

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I get it ā€“ in a media saturated world, how do you get attention for your crappy remake? I have an idea, how about, for the next shoot ā€˜em up film they send commandos out into the street and mow people down: ā€œbabiesā€ ā€¦ ā€œshotā€ ā€¦ "in mothersā€™ arms"ā€¦ mans head ā€œexplodesā€ from ā€œhollow point bullet to the headā€. Real? Fake? Who cares? ā€œLETS FCK WITH SOME CUSTOMERS!ā€.

The moment that got my bile up the most was when that dude and chick high-fived over their idiotic ā€œachievementā€ā€¦ all those who work in marketing, advertising and PR up against the wall and a cultural renaissance may spontaneously erupt. Include the banksters and utopia will bloom.

Alternatively, theyā€™re filming something like this when a real telekinetic bad-ass walks in, and he/she takes care of the fakerā€¦WITH A VENGEANCE!

Wait, I just wrote a movie. Nobody take my idea.

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Reaction shots are what makes porn worthwhile.

yeah, if nothing else, there would be the issue of releases. at the very least there was a sign on the door about implicit consent to filming, blah, blah, blah. i would count an unaware actor as legit, kind of. thereā€™s just no other way to do this and not be exposed to a lawsuit.

Am I the only one who would bust out laughing if they saw that? Awesome setup,but no one really thinks that it would be true. In America, people are beyond thatā€¦ oh, waitā€¦ crap that explains a lot.

It suddenly occurs to me that it must be very hard to get the modern personā€™s attention.

ā€¦Also, the jaded urbanite too-many-video-games part of me just chimed in with a thought: Itā€™d be a lot scarier/more awesome, if, say, ā€˜Ms. Telekineticā€™ were to, say, light the stuntman on fire, instead.

I think the thought of (a second!) remake isā€¦unnecessary. But I read the book: and Iā€™ve seen Sissy Spacek kill John Travolta and impale her nutjob Momma a few times. Thatā€™sā€¦enough for me.

I found this memetisement amusingā€¦but as SK himself once wrote about his son (Joe Hill to you, Jack) complaining about leftovers: ā€œThis Shitā€¦AGAIN?!ā€

Firestarter is the same book -basically- but is ripe for a proper remake: She burns them all down: the bullet, Rainbird, the horses, the good guys with gunsā€¦badass.

We keep feeding on our own tail like Ourouboros: Pop Will Eat Itself. But sometimes, itā€™s yummy I supposeā€¦

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