King of Kong is my goto example of a documentary that is highly manipulative, and you wouldn't know it unless you had other sources of info.
Some examples:
This is highly de-recommended. The documentary twists way too many facts:
Billy Mitchell did not avoid Steve. In fact, he met him during that event.
Billy Mitchell and Steve already knew each other - years before they had been part of another event, and there's even a photo of them posing together.
Steve wasn't trying to break Billy's record, but his own record which he had set some years prior. When his record was disqualified in the movie, the record was reverted to his own prior record.
Even the makers of the show admit they edited footage to craft a villain narrative and create conflict where it didn't exist. It shouldn't be used to inform your views on anyone involved but it does make for some fun entertainment.
Pretty sure they didn't talk him into wearing his patriotism on his sleeve with the loud American flag ties and such — and his villainous Trans-Am-driving coiffure, ha ha.
The guy exudes all the vibes of a narcissist. As others have said, a guy so much fun to detest.
I interpreted the commenter as referring to the gaudy display of symbols of patriotism as fashion, not to the idea of patriotism itself.
For another take on the danger of loving one’s country, see the Irish tune “The Patriot Game” by Brenden Behan (especially as performed by the Clancy Brothers).
>Funny, the wikipedia page says something different: Twin Galaxies colluded with Billy Mitchell to support his fraud
Both can be true. The movie purposefully cast Mitchell as a villain based on little hard evidence, they happened to be right that he was one.
I don't see how you can accuse Twin Galaxies of collusion. Sure, they were probably too lenient on someone they had a decades long connection to, but this lawsuit is about them admitting their mistake and condemning Mitchell.
It's a reasonable accusation: for a while Twin Galaxies basically just had a few people making up numbers and their mates writing it down, without even a hint of verifying it (including a few scores which were blatently impossible to anyone who had even a slight familiarity with the game, like a game where the score only increments in multiples of five having a score where the last digit is 3).
One really important point is that while it's the same organisation name it's been bought out and there's now a completely different group of people running it (and they seem to be much more concerned with sniffing out cheaters).
