TSN definitely feels RPF-y to me. It's basically the fanfic of a biographical novel.
But then it feels much less... Real People Fiction to me than, say, 'Generation Kill'. It's not a pretty faithful retelling of a journalist's observations with one of the ACTUAL REAL PEOPLE playing themselves -- you know it's a skewed and highly dramatized version of real events that probably only bares a resemblance to RL
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I guess I engage with TSN like a traditional media fandom instead of like an RPF fandom, because it's RPF itself.
This is exactly what I was thinking. It's a fully-formed RPF text, which sometimes makes it feel like fic for it is the same as continuing someone else's fic, while other times it feels like it's just fic for another fictional movie.
Plus, I just had the realization that I couldn't write, like, real!Eduardo/Andrew, because they kind of don't exist in the same universe to me. My brain has laid it out as three levels of reality (actors, characters, and nebulous people who inspired this) and none of them can ever converge. I've chosen to go with the actors, because I know how to do that already.
The thing to me is that although I can obviously see the distinction between fictionalized movie!Mark and actual RL!Mark Zuckerberg, I kind of feel like to the extent that "Mark Zuckerberg" is a public figure, he is a persona constructed out of what we've seen of him in the news and interviews and gossip sites etc., and the movie character does impinge on or even merge into that construct. Like, I *know* that the Mark character in the movie is not an accurate representation of the real person, but that character has still affected what I know about him and how I think about him, and I can't really separate that from what I've heard about him through supposedly factual sources. if that makes any sense.
I've actually started reading the FPF in the fandom (which is such a weird thing to say, because it is still real people fiction) and I can totally see your point about the public persona merging with the fictional one. Especially with Mark, because we know a good deal about him just by existing in a world that includes Facebook, so it's hard to separate. I actually find myself liking him more now after watching the movie and reading the fic, because he seems like a real person, even though I know I'm attributing character aspects to him that are made up by Sorkin and ficcers.
I'm so confused. It's like that Escher drawing where the hands are drawing each other.
i have been thinking thoughts akin to this post for a little while. nothing constructive to add to the dialogue above, just wanted to say i heart reading this and i heart you too!
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But then it feels much less... Real People Fiction to me than, say, 'Generation Kill'. It's not a pretty faithful retelling of a journalist's observations with one of the ACTUAL REAL PEOPLE playing themselves -- you know it's a skewed and highly dramatized version of real events that probably only bares a resemblance to RL ( ... )
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This is exactly what I was thinking. It's a fully-formed RPF text, which sometimes makes it feel like fic for it is the same as continuing someone else's fic, while other times it feels like it's just fic for another fictional movie.
Plus, I just had the realization that I couldn't write, like, real!Eduardo/Andrew, because they kind of don't exist in the same universe to me. My brain has laid it out as three levels of reality (actors, characters, and nebulous people who inspired this) and none of them can ever converge. I've chosen to go with the actors, because I know how to do that already.
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I've actually started reading the FPF in the fandom (which is such a weird thing to say, because it is still real people fiction) and I can totally see your point about the public persona merging with the fictional one. Especially with Mark, because we know a good deal about him just by existing in a world that includes Facebook, so it's hard to separate. I actually find myself liking him more now after watching the movie and reading the fic, because he seems like a real person, even though I know I'm attributing character aspects to him that are made up by Sorkin and ficcers.
I'm so confused. It's like that Escher drawing where the hands are drawing each other.
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My thoughts are all jumbled and incoherent, so I'm happy it didn't bore you.
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