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Thoughtful thread that’s getting well-deserved attention. Not a commonplace problem, but one that reveals some structural insanities in the narrative-industrial complex.
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Does my name belong to me? My face? What about my life? My story? Why does my name refer to events I had no hand in? I return to these questions because others continue to profit off my name, face, & story without my consent. Most recently, the film #STILLWATER. / a thread
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I think I came to similar conclusions when The Social Network came out. Whether you like or hate Zuckerberg, storytellers should stick to a strict set of rules when telling the “fictionalized” version of real people’s stories. Ideally they just shouldn’t do it without consent.
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This doesn’t preclude hostile storytelling. But even when telling the story of someone you dislike and want to cast in a bad light, like a prosecutor in a court… there are rules.
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