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[META] (re trailer and) Character's myspace interaction

[Nitsujest]

That would be pretty funny but it seem's like there IG they have seen some pretty recent movies i would ask them if they have seen Transformers

[worngmike]

that would be weird if they did, cos you would then end up in this perpetual loop, they would have to respond as though the characters were not them and then based on that the characters background would then have to appear on myspace for them to look at, very confusing.
i think they see everything else we see except this trailer and movie. their lives are running concurrently.

[Nitsujest]

Yeah you could ask them about any world events and they would know but they wouldn't know but they still do..My brain hurts

[SisBear]

If you want them to write you back, try engaging them in conversation about stuff that they have said interests them (Hud and X-Men, Lily and the book "House of Leaves") that sort of thing. Don't ask them about the movie or trailer, because they'll just ignore you. In their "alternate reality", the movie and the trailer are part of their future, so they haven't happened yet (to them).

[Lawlbringer]

[SisBear]

LOL!

[rose]

This is a great question.

The crash of the fictional world of the movie into the fictional/ real world of the internet -what do the myspace charactes reveal. They need to seem "real" but what can they acknowledge?

I don't see a way that the myspace pages can acknowledge the existence of the trailer for a movie that they are in, as characters, a movie that would show their possible future... I mean wouldn't they just cancel Rob's party?

[Nitsujest]

[Melampus]

I never played the LOST Experience, but I've kept up w/the show - I assume that the LOST ARG was designed to find out more about the Dharma Group and who was pulling the strings on the island, etc. Backstory for LOST.

I'm also guessing that they could present that ARG as though it all existed in 'real time' because the main events take place in remote locations, e.g., the island. Again, I could be wrong about that - never played the ARG.

Anyway, compare that to this movie - they can pretend the characters on myspace are real people, living in NYC right now, b/c the monster won't attack until (probably) January 18th. Once that happens, i.e., once the movie comes out, then the 'reality' of the myspace pages will be utterly ruined. (unless Bad Robot has some horrifically radical ideas about how to market this movie! people of New York: Run for your lives!!).

There is, of course, one other way around that reality clash - if all the myspace people die, then it won't matter anymore, and the ARG can involve stuff about Slusho!, and possibly elder Hawkins', etc., like the LOST experience. Of course, there will still be the awkward disjunct of a ruined NYC in the game-reality, and a happy, go-lucky, up and runnin' and kickin' ass NYC in our reality (the 'real' reality).

Hurm...

In any case, it would seem that for any kind of ARG to work post-movie...

...the Slusho Seven Must Die!