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Originally Posted by Bronx Bomber 15
Since you ask...the "movie" is a fictional story, just like the story lines in wrestling as I stated in my post (read: the "predetermined and scripted" part). If you can find a way to show me how the stunt aspect of wrestling is fake then please do. I'm sure those silly old pros who have been injuring themselves for years would like to know how as well.
Please read my posts before replying or attempting to build an argument where there is none. I never stated that pro wrestling is real nor did I state that movies were real so I don't know where that came from.
Pretty simple, if you don't like wrestling, then don't watch it.
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Actually, I have watched wrestling and I no longer do because it was getting too corny for me. It seems like it vacillates between really stupid soap opera-y periods, periods where they are trying to pretend that it is ALL REAL OMG THEY R PLAYING 4 KEEPS NOW and then occasional points where the whole industry is basically joshing itself. There was a point right around the time Al Snow was popular where I thought it was funny enough. Now IMO it's back to dumb again. I may well start watching in another few years.
That being said... here's an idea. There was a whole argument represented by my wacky quip. Have you watched a Jackie Chan movie? All the stunts he performs are real. If he jumps from one building to another over a 50-foot deep alley, that jump really happened. Jackie Chan has broken lots of bones doing his stunts and as such there is a certain element to his movies that you don't get with your average Hollywood blockbuster.
That being said, Jackie Chan movies aren't "real" in the sense that a baseball game is real. The outcome is predetermined in a Jackie Chan movie. It's like wrestling in that regard: I'll watch it as entertainment, but sports is something else entirely. Just because Vic Morrow died during the making of "The Twilight Zone: The Movie" doesn't mean that Stephen Spielberg films documentaries. There is a not so fine line between reality and narrative. Don't get me wrong; as a man with a BA in English, I often prefer the narrative form. But don't ever call it "real" in my presence because it's not.