Chris Chan Documentary.

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Oh gosh, if you put in one of those slow zoom ins on a photo where the color suddenly inverts with a DUNDUN noise, I would love you forever.
 

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I think the important thing here (if you're actually trying to make a documentary that has some critical merit) is to not pass any explicit judgement on Chris - let the audience interpret the footage that it sees. It's just too easy (and frankly not even that clever or tasteful) to go "LMAO look at this fat fuck" for 90 minutes and call it a day. I would really like to see someone make a documentary "explaining" Chris-Chan and his surrounding phenomenon to a general audience.

OP a good documentary about a single person is "The Fog of War" by Errol Morris which is about Robert McNamara, who was the US Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War. It does a good job of portraying McNamara's own intentions and justifications for his decisions through interviews rather than the documentary taking one explicit side or another.
 
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I usually just lurk, & thought about my first in b4 lock was going to be this thread. Now instead, this made my morning & makes the fact I didn't get any sleep bearable. My boyfriend & I will definitely watch.
 
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Good idea, but I hold any judgements until I see the final version. Also, as a batshit crazy side project I always wanted to do this: gather random people in a room and show to them all Chris' videos (and his albums, and the pictures/drawings/etc.). See the reactions. And then flee to another country.

Science.

EDIT: would you be offended if we download the final version? Only for archivistic purposes.
 
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I was all ready to hit the 'Autistic" rating for your post but you've actually done it.

I always thought Chris was an excellent idea for a documentary in terms of how one man became an internet sensation but in practice, it was all weens who posted about their great idea. Fair play for actually doing it in a manner which isn't lame as hell.
 
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I came here expecting to say what half of you already said...'inb4lock' but damn...I'm highly impressed and can't wait to see the finished product.

Honestly though, I'm actually kind of surprised that (for example) Vice hasn't discovered him yet. Now hear me out before you go 'oh god no'...they tend to do pieces on some really out there stuff (especially on the HBO series), and when you think about it, he really does have his own culture surrounding him...I mean, the kiwi's got how many members, people traveled to his last court hearing (and probably will to the upcoming one), and he really does have one weird ass story behind him. I'm sure they would throw a whole 'cyber-bullying' spin on it for the views, but damn if it wouldn't be interesting to watch.
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It is hard for any "legitimate" company to do. One, you would have to toe a very narrow line between sympathizing with him and criticizing and making fun of him. You can't portray the trolling as something he deserved, or you will piss off and offend a lot of people. A legitimate company just can't make a documentary that might be construed as pro-cyberbullying. On the other hand, how can you be sympathetic to a guy with such distasteful views about gays, minorities, and other disabled people? If you are worried about journalistic integrity it is hard to ignore these things.

The second reason is that you would probably need some cooperation from Chris and Barb. Otherwise you open yourself up to be criticized for piling on the cyberbullying. The headlines would be "autistic man just wanted to be left alone by cyberbullies. Now he just wants to be left alone by Vice". And I think we all agree that cooperating with Chris and Barb is somewhere between a nightmare and impossible.

It just seems to me like too much of a PR nightmare. Sure it might be interesting, but there are lots of other interesting things and people out there that are less scary for the PR department.

If it is going to be done, it will be by an amateur and be some combination of a video CWCKi and the CWCVillelibrary channel on youtube. Which seems to be what is happening here.

But I do look forward to this documentary. The one thing I would advise the person who is making it is to consider some of these points. If you are attaching your name, reputation, or future career to this at all, you should probably be careful. Not that you shouldn't do it, but there are a bunch of things to juggle..
 
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The biggest problem is these people make no effort, they'll say something like "I want to make a Chris documentary, give me money to do it" instead of actually doing it. .
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And they are like, "Oh BTW the budget is $30K." :stupid:

But yeah, OP good luck on this but if the result is ween I will come back and rate it autistic.
 
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@timtommy I agree completely. I think that one way a potential documentary could be more than just a string of videos of him shoving things up his anus would be to couch it in terms of the potential effects that being "Internet famous" can have on one's life, and also the changing and continuously blurred lines between life vs entertainment, trolling vs cyberbullying, helping vs enabling/white-knighting, and a whole host of other things that I think the "Chris experience" really brings to the forefront. Certainly such ideas would help the film's objective tone, possibly rescuing it from :julay: territory.
 
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Good work OP. I always thought a CWC documentary could be made.

(And always secretly thought I'd be the one to do it first, but seriously, good work actually getting it done :))
 
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I'm eager to see the final product of this and it's an interesting enough idea to where you could re-visit it later on in your studies when you've had more experience with putting it together, as there are a lot of different ways to approach this. Plus you could turn it into a series of documentaries about various lolcows.
 
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CaptainDong said:
I came here expecting to say what half of you already said...'inb4lock' but damn...I'm highly impressed and can't wait to see the finished product.

Honestly though, I'm actually kind of surprised that (for example) Vice hasn't discovered him yet. Now hear me out before you go 'oh god no'...they tend to do pieces on some really out there stuff (especially on the HBO series), and when you think about it, he really does have his own culture surrounding him...I mean, the kiwi's got how many members, people traveled to his last court hearing (and probably will to the upcoming one), and he really does have one weird ass story behind him. I'm sure they would throw a whole 'cyber-bullying' spin on it for the views, but damn if it wouldn't be interesting to watch.
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Vice have already said no to articles/documentaries about Chris for the same reason that they won't accept any articles about bronies. Coming back to OP, this sounds interesting if you can spin it into a neutral stance on Chris but offer a good insight into how autistic people conduct themselves online.
 
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