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Post by Sumbody Gon' Get Dey Kneelift on Dec 26, 2007 9:41:22 GMT -5
I find it very, very irritating to me when people refer to wrestling as "fake." I don't believe it to be "fake." I hate that term, primarily because these days WWE presents itself as a TV show, and nothing more, complete with supernatural hijinks and intentional-near-murder.
People don't refer to "24" as fake. They don't complain that the poorly choreographed fights in "Heroes" look "fake."
And yet, somehow Kiefer Sutherland manages not to break his freaking neck, or go home from work sore every time he hits the set.
I've always used the term "staged," because I feel it captures the risk factor while acknowledging the fact that it's just a TV show.
We've all probably had this conversation. What term do you use, and why?
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Post by Miz-Wannabe on Dec 26, 2007 9:47:25 GMT -5
Tell those people that say it's fake to take a few bumps.
I have said it's scripted.
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Post by willywonka666 on Dec 26, 2007 9:49:51 GMT -5
I never use the word fake and never will. Staged maybe or pre determined. Fortunately I haven't encountered too many people who insist on arguing and running it down.
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Post by HRH The KING on Dec 26, 2007 9:55:15 GMT -5
"Scripted" is my preference.
I would NEVER call it "fake"
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Post by Next Level was WRONG on Dec 26, 2007 9:57:06 GMT -5
Fake. Just like everything else.
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Post by Miz-Wannabe on Dec 26, 2007 10:05:54 GMT -5
Fake. Just like everything else. How dare you! That goes against the wrestling fan code! lol
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Post by Push R Truth on Dec 26, 2007 10:11:22 GMT -5
It's 1200% Real.
I like saying scripted. The action is real, but the outcome is scripted. Like old Kung Fu movies.
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Post by TheMediocreWarrior on Dec 26, 2007 10:17:23 GMT -5
Heroes kicks ass. Way more entertaining than Raw has been.
Anyway, I use "staged". "Fake" seems kind of stupid to me, it's like calling the events of a TV show or movie fake. Well...no shit Sherlock.
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Post by Surfer Supreme on Dec 26, 2007 10:19:39 GMT -5
Baseball is fake.
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Post by B-Eazy on Dec 26, 2007 10:36:24 GMT -5
I use scripted. I only used fake when I was a little kid and found out that they werent really punching each other and stuff, lol.
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Post by OldGravyLeg on Dec 26, 2007 11:04:44 GMT -5
And yet, somehow Kiefer Sutherland manages not to break his freaking neck, or go home from work sore every time he hits the set. Actually, ol' Kiefer just checked himself into prison yesterday. I have a feeling he's going to be going home sore for a completely different reason
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Post by Edison taps to the ARMBAR! on Dec 26, 2007 11:08:15 GMT -5
Wrestling is soooo fake.
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Post by thesunbeast on Dec 26, 2007 11:18:22 GMT -5
Unforunately, most people will believe that wrestling is 100% fake, but it's the injuries that are real. I'm always encountering people who still think it's 1986 and feel like It's all 100% fake and that they have just figured it out and most people that don't agree with them think it's 100% real.
Complete with "Ketchup" logic and everything. It's painfull.
I can't stand whin I'm watching with someone and someone gets hit in the head with a chair with a loud BOOM, and the guy says "wow, how did they do that!?".
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Post by Miz-Wannabe on Dec 26, 2007 11:19:19 GMT -5
Wrestling is soooo fake. Ya just like your...
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Post by T.J. "the Crippler" Stevens on Dec 26, 2007 11:24:03 GMT -5
Pre-determined
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Post by Big Daddy Bad Booking on Dec 26, 2007 11:30:40 GMT -5
I'd put together choices 2-4 as "choreographed", but I believe wrestling is 99% real, as most punches are pulled and most kicks to the gut too. People piss me off when they say wrestling is fake, because people are too arrogant to realize that people not only make a living at what they do, but they also get injured on the job. I respect the wrestlers for travelling 300 days a year to entertain fans coast-to-coast and continents the world over, and that is the kicker most people do not get.
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Post by thesunbeast on Dec 26, 2007 11:37:55 GMT -5
Tell those people that say it's fake to take a few bumps. I have said it's scripted. Unfortuntely, this is the very reason why they say it's so phony. They can't get up from a bump on a floor, so they say that there's no way that those bumps hurt at all. I know it sounds retarted, and it is, but I usually tell them that their reality is faker than wrestling, and I'm right. I usually say that pro wrestling is scripted pain, how real or fake is that?
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Post by Hensley on Dec 26, 2007 11:45:46 GMT -5
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Post by Sumbody Gon' Get Dey Kneelift on Dec 26, 2007 11:48:36 GMT -5
I cried when I found out Godzilla wasn't real.
It took me until just now to realize that, in some strane but very direct way, I was crying that thousands of Japanese people WEREN'T dead.
Just thought I'd add that. Sorta hijack my own thread for a second.
BUT YEAH
I used to hear the "It's fake blood" thing a lot from my friends. Then I showed them Vince Taker buried alive. One of them almost threw up.
It was a good afternoon.
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Post by Near Fantastica on Dec 26, 2007 12:15:21 GMT -5
I use the word Fake, because...well, it's fake.
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