¶ … Contenders challenges the depth of the line between the so called reality-based survival shows and fictionalized genres. Series 7 to the greatest degree is a spoof on the idea that a game with real stakes, reputed to be stakes of life and death could truly exist within an entertainment venue. Series 7 proposes that the impact of such a situation upon the viewer can only be judged through the representative stakes of just that, life or death. The represented goal of the film is the actual violent death of opponent players in the game. The implications of such a production weigh heavily upon the viewing public and leave many questions to be answered by the phenomena of television ratings. Though the Series 7 movie is an attempt to challenge the lines between reality and fiction, in much the same way the sensational Blair Witch Project did a few years before it, this film and others like it seem to be just what the reality show viewing public is in search of next.
The Blair Witch Project was originally a low budget production of a college film crew attempting to propagate a supposed true story of a mythological banished witch in a spooky forest in Maryland. The film crew supposedly disappeared in the process of the filming, and then this information was sensationalized into a feature length film. Though the creators presumably went farther than had ever been intended the supposed true story is still believed by some and was a national sensation completely outside the scope of the old fireside ghost stories we all heard as children, in many ways the source of the idea for the project. (http://www.blairwitch.com/main.html)
In many ways Series 7 is making fun of the serious and dramatic tools used by other reality show marketing to represent the stakes as high as the viewers imagination can go. Yet the undercurrent of belief, for those who have...
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