Johnny Smiles
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here's what i think....
Basically, everything u described ^ is what good documentary movie making is. its story telling. u make drama if there isn't enough and film it. its still real as you said but magnified and presented cleverly. otherwise its just gonna feel and look like a boring "day in the life of" youtube documentary we have all seen 1 million times.
just my opinion
-JS
The drama is over emphasized but how can you call this fake? This is a documentary which was spiced up and partially guided in very obvious parts but very few as well. Sure as hell not enough to call fake. you really think phil takes baths and reads the flex magazine he is on the cover of? lol. you really think he goes and picks up his paper in a robe and holding his coffee mug? those were staged. so was most of the movie. its a "movie"
Phil is an arrogant asshole. Kai is a strange fellow, who in reality despises Phil for holding down the throne that he devotes every second of every minute of his simple yet so meticulous existence thinking about. Not fake.
I think Kai despises Phil bc phil is the best at something AND had a life and other ambitions he just ended up doing what suits his genetics (left basketball went to bbing) Whereas Kai has never had anything going for him nor did he even try (gov housing no education no other ambitions besides drugs and weights) and so Phil beats him and still has a well rounded life.
Branch lives on a farm and busts his ass. He trains like a maniac. All accurate. Did they stage the fall off the horse?
they got LUCKY wit that horse shot. you just cant fake branch lol. and don't think he would even let you
How about Victor, was his prison term fake?
no, but did u see they made it look like Weinstein and friends met him RIGHT as he walked out of jail. LOL. that was set up I am sure.
Or the fact that Ben Pakulski takes on a extremely scientific approach to his training? Fake?
I think they embellished it. u think he uses those EKG machines and etc every prep every work out etc? naw, its prob something he has done and so they used it and make it sound common place
The list goes on and on, but the fakeness in this movie is no more exaggerated than the soap opera approach the IFBB took on Kai and Phil in real life (but I'm pretty confident that stemmed from the existing disrespect Kai originally had for Phil and vice versa). So they're only trying to entertain what was already there
Now there's no debating everyone would put on a little bit of mask if being shown in a movie about our lifestyle, we'd most likely present our version of our perceived best self but I'm holding true to leaving this in the documentary section on Netflix and certainly not sold on the fictitious drama that you're claiming.
Same shit with pumping iron. Exaggerated on some levels (Arnold cumming 24/7) but certainly not fake.
Basically, everything u described ^ is what good documentary movie making is. its story telling. u make drama if there isn't enough and film it. its still real as you said but magnified and presented cleverly. otherwise its just gonna feel and look like a boring "day in the life of" youtube documentary we have all seen 1 million times.
just my opinion
-JS
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