A recent study conducted at MIT revealed that the American audience believes films are being broadcast in real time. Professor Dalton Peters had been working on this study for “quite some time now”, almost thirteen years. We interviewed professor Peters and he had this to say: “I was surprised by my findings at first but then it started to click. Many Americans believe that any time they watch any movie, the actors, crew, directors, whoever, are all on scene broadcasting the film over and over again… it’s bizarre to think about, the fact they don’t understand the technology involved. We have phones now we record things, how have they not grasped this concept?” We also conducted our own bit of research and opened a poll asking viewers what they believed was going on when they sat down to watch their film. Our polls showed much higher numbers, sixty three percent of people we asked (this is over five thousand people) believed the same thing, films they were watching were being broadcast live. We got in contact with a few of those who took our poll;
“you’re telling me they don’t record it every time we watch it, na, no way LOL. I don’t believe it you can’t believe everything you see on tv everyday, that’s what separates us from them.” - Brad Jacobs, 63
“If that’s the case why do actors get paid millions, it’s because it’s hard work! They have to keep doing it over and over again” - Megan Bologna , 54
“It’s false. Any time I’ve watched a movie again there’s always something different, I’m very observant so I see all these things many people don’t look for. The acting is different every time, it’s false” - Pete Walker, 28
“I don’t believe it, I don’t say that as a way of expressing shock, I genuinely don’t believe it. It’s impossible, like how are you able to keep playing the same movie over and over again it costs money to do that and it’s cheaper to have the actors playing the same part over and over again, never heard of any recordings, that’s why it’s called film it’s a film” - Michael Wednesday
The answers left us stunned, were we being deceived by people online or is there another reality, are Americans severely uneducated? I couldn’t be a straightforward answer, whatever the case a large majority of Americans believe the films and television shows that they watch are being broadcast live. This can’t just be exclusive to America.
