Kickstarter-esque fundraiser for CWC Documentary

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$20k? She can fuck right off, especially since there will be nothing new she will be able to bring to the table. Chris is ultra reclusive and mostly boring nowdays, what is there left to say that has not already been said?

There was also a video posted here a few weeks ago about someone who did a video series which gave a general overview of CWC so even that angle has been covered.
 
Chris is an obscure Internet phenomenon. Kind of like Internet folklore. A traditional documentary would not work. The best and closest thing to a good cwc related documentary is the cwcki. And it fits. It's pretty much an "interactive documentary" made by the Internet about something that can only happen on the Internet.
 
Yeah, the thing is, a documentary couldn't bring anything new to the table even if they brought enough vidya to make Chris cooperative. He probably doesn't even remember any of the famous incidents. He probably barely remembers having a father at this point, or why exactly he wants to go back to high school.
 
CatParty said:
Chris is an obscure Internet phenomenon. Kind of like Internet folklore. A traditional documentary would not work. The best and closest thing to a good cwc related documentary is the cwcki. And it fits. It's pretty much an "interactive documentary" made by the Internet about something that can only happen on the Internet.
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^Pretty much this. It's just possible she could make an off-the-wall docu ala "Winnebago Man" if she managed to wrangle an interview with Chris and a few of the principle characters in his life. But a straight-up docu like "Grizzly Man?" No way.
 
qld said:
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She should make a sizzle reel of existing content to coincide with a proper pitch to potential funders instead of jumping head on into such a project.
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I read their terms of use, and they have a section against bullying. It's possible any or all of this could be interpreted as bullying, since several youtube videos have been removed for that reason. I wonder what happens to the money if they pull your campaign for violating their terms? Making a reel could wind up being seen by the wrong person and they might complain about it.
But if she gets some funding and goes ahead with it, makes the right bribes to CWC, if it coincides with him coming off probation and he feels like showing his ass, he might welcome her pitch if she makes the right promises. Like a chance to tell his side of the story and expose those dang dirty trolls nationally.
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The only way I can see Chris doing this is if you bribe him and barb for A LOT of money. Then of that's successful and if the film is successful, even marginally so, I can see someone telling Chris or barb to sue

And that's if the documentary isn't someone running off with 20k and stringing together some old videos with narration.
 
qld said:
This person may very well get her $20,000. Something could be produced. .
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i'm willing to bet she raises $0.00. Even Julayfags could tell they would be wasting their money.
 
RagtimeRoastBeefy said:
The only way I can see Chris doing this is if you bribe him and barb for A LOT of money.
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Naw, you forget the filmmaker possesses China. Hell, if the film crew are all women, Chris wouldn't stand a chance.

RagtimeRoastBeefy said:
Then of that's successful and if the film is successful, even marginally so, I can see someone telling Chris or barb to sue
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I think Bob was the litigious one in the family, but who knows?
 
If Barb didn't have Chris, the OWN FREE BITCH on a leash, I could see him getting fooled into an interview.
 
Chris would definitely be gullible enough to do an interview. Online Chris is handling trolls more or less well enough to avoid getting trolled. IRL, however, he's still super malleable.

But really, this idea is stupid. Unless they got an interview with Barb, we wouldn't be getting anything new. Chris would just say the same shit he says on his facebook. Even if you had an interviewer who knew what they were doing, the value of the content you're getting is shit. The stuff Chris produces on his own, when he isn't even trying, is worth a lot more. There's a lot more content when Chris isn't put on the spot.
 
I watch a lot of odd, out there documentaries, about bizarre people. I could see, maybe, some doc about this getting made. While were on the subject, you guys should check out, "I Think We're Alone Now", which follows around 2 men who obsessively stalk the pop singer Tiffany, that doc gave me CwC vibes.
 
Picklepower said:
I watch a lot of odd, out there documentaries, about bizarre people. I could see, maybe, some doc about this getting made. While were on the subject, you guys should check out, "I Think We're Alone Now", which follows around 2 men who obsessively stalk the pop singer Tiffany, that doc gave me CwC vibes.
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Maybe this Colorado girl wants to make a documentary about the online community that has made CWC what he is. I must've watched a dozen docs about Bigfoot. But I've yet to watch one that actually got an interview with him, or his mother.
 
Picklepower said:
I watch a lot of odd, out there documentaries, about bizarre people. I could see, maybe, some doc about this getting made. While were on the subject, you guys should check out, "I Think We're Alone Now", which follows around 2 men who obsessively stalk the pop singer Tiffany, that doc gave me CwC vibes.
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Well, the problem with a Chris documentary is that he's so entertaining because of a diverse selection of content. It comes from many different mediums. His videos, his comics, the emails and the calls. You lose value by cramming them into a video documentary, and really, I can't see how you'd gain any other value with a video documentary.
 
I really doubt this Colorado art student is capable of raising the funds to do this. I think she got the idea that there might be enough Christorians out there to fund ANY documentary on Chris, even hers. She's already willing to cast anyone with $5000 in a reenactment that would regrettably be in place of actual Chris footage. Shit, 4 Tobias Funke's could make this thing happen.

At this point it's a pretty grim outcome, with Chris's current state of living. There's no possibility for a happy ending unless you cut the story off at his virginity loss... Which is still sort of depressing and lame. I'm not sure that I'd be interested in a Chris documentary that wasn't top quality. Even then, it would be a downer of a movie.
 
I took another look at the Indigogo campaign and I noticed that this girl says merely that she "takes classes in video production," not that it's her focus of study. Turns out her major is web design.

Well I take classes in animation, but that doesn't mean that, as a game design student, I feel I am qualified to make a feature-length animation!

If this documentary does happen, I foresee it being Tesch quality.
 
I don't know why everyone is so down on the possibility that a worthwhile documentary could be made by an actual skilled documentary filmmaker. The notion that Chris is somehow such an in-depth topic that a mere film could never do him justice is absurd.

That said, this amateur fundraiser is a horribly stupid idea that will remain at $0 where it belongs.
 
Yeah this idea deserves no funding especially when it is a student that isn't even majoring in film or video production.
 
CWC Tok said:
I don't know why everyone is so down on the possibility that a worthwhile documentary could be made by an actual skilled documentary filmmaker. The notion that Chris is somehow such an in-depth topic that a mere film could never do him justice is absurd.

That said, this amateur fundraiser is a horribly stupid idea that will remain at $0 where it belongs.
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It's like someone said earlier. There are so many aspects to deal with, you couldn't do it. But for me, I'm not interested in his career as an artist. I've never followed it, or delved into it. Yet I get plenty of enjoyment out of the other aspects of CWC. Some people here are Pokemon players. Not me. That's not something that appeals to me. You don't have to dwell on that. The stats of this board show that the Sonichu aspect has dried up. It never interested me. That could be glimpsed at. All I knew of his art career was when it overlapped in real life, like when he did "She came for CWC." Other aspects could be glimpsed at. You don't know what speaks to a documentary creator. You don't have to support the potential, but if they pull it off, you may be surprised. I don't think the subject of this particular thread is going to do much of anything, but it's not out of the question for some random person.
 
CWC Tok said:
The notion that Chris is somehow such an in-depth topic that a mere film could never do him justice is absurd.
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I don't think there's so much depth to the topic as there is width. Same applies to Chris himself.

It's not that what he's done has meaning, it's more he's done A LOT of inevitably dumb and useless things in his life which led to unbelievable hijinks. With all that considered, if you even wanted to summarize ALL of Chris' actions, you'd have to make more than one documentary, or at least one incredibly long one that not even Christorians would want to sit through.
 
CWC Tok said:
The notion that Chris is somehow such an in-depth topic that a mere film could never do him justice is absurd.
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It's not that he's some sort of super-complicated enigma. More that understanding his oddities and verbal tics requires assembling scraps of information from throughout his life, which doesn't lend itself well to linear storytelling.
 
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