In ancient Egyptian mythology, a dead person's soul would be weighed against the feather of truth in a ritual called a psychostasy. If their soul was lighter than the feather, it would ascend into the afterlife. Heavy souls were devoured by Maat, eater of the dead. Good films go to hard drive heaven while the recycle bin eats the rest.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Forgotten Silver (1995)
A mockumentary by Peter Jackson, starring Sam Neill.
Peter Jackson pretends (very convincingly) that he found a chest of old films in a friend's garage. The films supposedly show fantastic advances in film making happening way before their actual time as well as other epic events. Other famous people like Sam Neill are interviewed and the life of the fictitious film maker is explained like a biography.
This is the most convincing hoax I've ever seen. It blows the Blair Witch out of the water. The production value is good and the "old films" really look old. The interviews make it look like it's a real documentary about a real man. The actor playing the fictional man? Deagol from The Return of the King. These guys tricked me, and for that they get an awesome rating.
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