#hwa5 #flahertybends I think when they thought ok lets do old methods is when it ruined that whole “truth” aspect. It’s just false reality and it seem like a method of cope. Audience also can easily see through it just because of how it was shown.
#hwa5 #flahertybends Flaherty made the decision to display inuit lige as how a white filmmaker sees it. While he might have made this decision to help the viewer see inuit life from a non inuit perspective, it only led to harmful and untrue representation.
#hwa5 #flahertybends A decision Flaherty made that looked like the truth was making everything "better" for the camera. Cutting igloos in half, have actors perform outdated methods. This taught the audience a false narrative about what indigenous people actually did.
In one particular scene, they used an igloo, but to fit it on camera, they cut it in half. It took away from the authenticity to make it more appealing to those watching. #flahertybends #hwa5
#hwa5 #flahertybends I think it was the part where flaherty showed nanook as primitive by using outdated survival methods. That would show any audience that the tribe may not be as strong or skilled in comparison to modern society.
#hwa5 #flahertybends I think one of the ways Flaherty bent reality was by showing Nanook and his people as more primitive than they actually were. Basically showing that their lives didn't evolve over time. Which wasn't the reality.
#hwa5 #flahertybends Coincidentally, I went on a tangent about this dude in the previous activity, but ANYWAYS, Flahertyfilmed the more intense, but still expected events to make it both more interesting to the audience and have the Natives be framed a certain way-
#hwa5 #flahertybends Flaherty recreates Intuit life by instilling Western lifestyles, such as hunting. This recreation was a MISREPRESENTATION of the indigenous people in society.
Flaherty protrayed Inuit people as primitive and outdated and made people beleive this was the truth when it was false and staged. This mattered because it negatively affected the way people viewed Native American people and made them think they were inferior. #hwa5 #flahertybends
#hwa5 #flahertybends he erased any signs of modernity. He showed them as timeless and people who doesn’t know about new modern tools
#hwa5 #flahertybends one decision was the exclusion of details of the Inuit that modernized the tribe, and instead made them look timeless and primitive with sthe deliberate choice of excluding the modern rifles the Inuit already owned
reality bending is something that has always existed through media consumption. it matters in nanook of the north though because it was the first feature-length doc and because it was so new people were shook by what they were consuming and took it as (mostly) true #hwa5 #flahertybends
it was about inuit people and the doc made it look like they were still using primitive tools and had no knowledge of modern practices. #hwa5 #flahertybends
Since flaherty used innacurate and out dated methods to portray the inuit, he created almost a false narrative that taught the audience to believe that they were much more primitive than they actually were. #hwa5 #flahertybends
One decision Flaherty made that looked like truth but actually bent reality is that the igloo was cut in half to accommodate the camera people. This doesn't show the truth about how the Inuits lived. Sometimes documentaries make things up to make production easier. #hwa5 #flahertybends
#hwa5 #flahertybends well you mentioned that Flhattery sort of "put them back in time". He wanted the film to be more "primitive" so he ommited the more contempoary things like do like clothes etc.
Flaherty portrayed the Inuit in primative ways, such as hunting, seal hunting, and family life, which were no longer in common use. He did this to pander to the Western fantasy of the "noble savage." #hwa5 #flahertybends
#hwa4 #flahertybends Flaherty essentially trivialized Inuit life by misrepresenting their livelihood and techniques that they commonly used, which manipulated audiences into believing that they were far less advanced than they actually were.
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Flaherty changed reality by showing Indigenous people using old tools they had already stopped using. He did this to make their lifestyle look more traditional for the audience. Because of that choice, it seemed truthful even though it wasn’t completely accurate
Flaherty recreated Inuit life using outdated methods that they didn't actually use anymore. This lead the audience to believe that they were more primitive and savage than they actually are. #hwa5 #flahertybends
#hwa5 #flahertybends, Flaherty made a documentary to exemplify a story about ingenious people without genuinely representing lndigenous culture, such as by erasing that culture entirely. It skewed audiences to believe documentaries as a basis of truth when this wasn’t the case and was misconstrued
untouched reality film, but it was the complete opposite. #hwa5 #flahertybends
in nanook of the north, Flaherty asked the subjects to recreate traditional hunting scenes instead of showing their actual modern lives. it looked authentic on screen, but it shaped the audience’s idea of inuit life as frozen in the past #hwa5 #flahertybends
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This doc claimed it was an accurate depiction of inuit life most of it was staged and out of date to make it look more primitive than they were and stuck in the past. It seemed true because it fit the stereotype and it shows how audience will believe what is depicted as true.
Flaherty staging scenes where the Inuit's were portrayed as using hunting methods that they no longer use in the modern day to further reinforce Western perception of how the Inuit's and similar tribes live. It teaches us that despite being factual, it may not be realistic. #hwa5 #flahertybends
One of the ways Flaherty bent reality was showing old tools that the indigenous people did not actually use anymore. It mattered because Flaherty made this edit because of his own biases and what he wanted to portray to the audience. It wasn't truth. #hwa5 #flahertybends
Flaherty twisted the narrative of the true nature of the Nanook tribe by recreating aspects of their life that was untrue. He shows the tribe as more primative than they actually are, just for the public appeal. It feels more like fiction than showing their lifestyle. #hwa5 #flahertybends
The part where Flaherty portrayed Nanook as primitive by making them use outdated survival methods in the film taught the audience to believe that the tribe was incapable, and of a lower level of intelligence, to the modernized and technologically advanced colonizers. #hwa5 #flahertybends
In Nanook of the North, the modern life of the Inuit is changed, and their modern clothing, which conceals their true nature, is altered to appear primitive and ancient. These staging techniques are used to manipulate the viewer.
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and the audience just ate it up. the man bent reality so hard it snapped, and then taught everyone to believe that authenticity = whatever looks the most frozen in time. #hwa5 #flahertybends
