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[–] mr_skeltal 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Also most of Ricky Gervais' TV work, Spinal Tap and Borat.

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[–] Agedwithaview 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

perhaps you're thinking of the genre as being limited to works that are in a documentary style. if you broaden the view, you can include such films as "Citizen Kane", "The Great Dictator" (not Borat but Chaplin), "An Inconvenient Truth" (I applaud the intent but Gore made such over the top statements), "Dr. Strangelove" (yeah, I know I'm really reaching now...) ... I could go on with a long list of films that take a current situation and exaggerate and disguise to present commentary on a social issue...

If the definition only considers films made in a documentary style would this include the genre of "found film" movies (is "Blair Witch Project" a mockumentary on independent film making)? If so where do you draw the line (besides being really creepy, is "VHS" a film that mocks me for mentioning it in this post)?

(geez, this writing stuff while thinking is hard - maybe someone should make a documentary about it.....)

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[–] incoming- [S] ago  (edited ago)

Well, we have all seen a PBS documentary. We also know that there are videos of people who have captured things going wrong. The Bear Man, if that was his nickname (I think it is) was dragged off and mauled all on camera, full audio, clear video.

Such incidents cross a blury line between documenting a past tragedy, to documenting a current tragedy while the crew supposedly filming is put in dire straights, or just a flat out failure on the crews part, like a bad expedition. To me, a mockumentary is something that if handed to an unsuspecting, gullible friend, he would believe it. (Unless it's about nuclear war, that's a dead giveaway)

I don't quite understand why more proper ones are made, not paranormal activity, but a truly dreadful situation is portrayed, grounded in reality or not. Not just "woooowowo spooky noises" but dread. Less of an immediate fight or flight, but questioning of 'just where... Where is this going? Oh god...'

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[–] Agedwithaview 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

neat thought, the scripted "reality" shows are the TV version of mockumentaries....I like it

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[–] mneln 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Do sacha baron cohen movies count as mockumentaries? Borat and The Dictator were pretty well recieved...

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[–] incoming- [S] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Not sure The Dictator is quite a mockumentary, but you got the idea.

They're usually low budget, so attempting one is almost a bit of a long shot dream of mine.

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[–] mr_skeltal 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

You should go for it man, Kevin Smith funded his first movie Clerks with a credit card.