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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.
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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