Friday, February 5, 2010

Is the Blair Witch Project a remake of a true story?

Most websites ive been on say the movie isn't real (I NO) but is it based on real film or myth...why do they say its haunted what happened.Is the Blair Witch Project a remake of a true story?
Well, many sites pushed that it's real but only because that was a marketing tool for their promotion of the movie. From the information I have gathered, i see that In developing the mythology behind the movie, the filmmakers used many inspirations. Several character names are near-anagrams; Elly Kedward (The Blair Witch) is Edward Kelley, a medieval mystic.





In the film, the Blair Witch is, according to legend, the ghost of Elly Kedward, a woman banished for witchcraft in 1785 in the Blair Township (latter-day Burkittsville). The directors incorporated that part of the legend, along with allusions to the Salem Witch Trials and The Crucible, to play on the themes of injustice done on those who were called witches. They were also influenced by The Shining, The Omen, and Jaws for the technique of showing the antagonist as little as possible to create suspense.


The Blair Witch Project bears many similarities to the film The Last Broadcast, written and directed by Stefan Avalos and Lance Weiler. Both are faux-documentaries dealing with characters who set off into the wilderness in search of legendary figures (in this case, the mythical Jersey Devil in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey) and vanish; however, the endings are quite different. It is unclear whether The Blair Witch Project was inspired by The Last Broadcast, or if they were conceived separately in isolation.


Jim Knipfel of the New York Press has noted the similarities between Blair Witch and the widely-banned 1980 Italian exploitation film Cannibal Holocaust. In the first part of this film, a rescue team ventures into the jungles of South America to search for a missing group of filmmakers who previously traveled there to film a documentary about cannibalistic tribes. Their footage is eventually found and viewed, which makes up the second half of the film.Is the Blair Witch Project a remake of a true story?
It is total fiction. The marketing campaign was designed to make it seem as though it really happened, and it was footage that had been found after the kids vanished. It was just a movie, based on no reality whatsoever.
Completely fake.. but a little fun fact.... you know when it first came out ALOT of people actually thought it was REAL, no lie...infact they had to make a public announcment to clear things up..that it was indeed fake and not based on a true story or anything like that
It is based on more crap and lies.


P.S: You cannot 'remake' a true event. You can adapt it to film, or base a film off of it.
Yea, it's a remake of the true story of the kids from Paranormal.
No. It's all fiction.

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