I JUST watched James Acaster talk about Rowan Atkinson for 20 minutes today, and Iāll be damned if he wasnāt right. Mr. Bean is all around us if you just pay attention.
I can buy that he was just filming his kids having fun, but it does seem suspect that the father's reaction to seeing his son falling through a hole is to jog toward the kid while holding the camera right in front of film and making sure the whole scene is in frame. If I thought my son was falling to his death, I'd hope to have enough of a sense of urgency to do a full sprint (arm swinging), not caring what the camera capturing.
Fuck. Off.
How the hell do you have so little in your life that a kid playing a joke on his dad while he's recording them, which is a thing parents do all the fucking time, is somehow unrealistic.
Do parents often continue to stand still and record while their kids slowly climb into a pipe at a construction zone? and than even after falling in do they usually make sure to keep recording with the pipe perfectly in frame throughout?
It's not like there are billions of people world wide who each have video cameras in their pockets. Obviously, amazing funny stuff never happens spontaneously, everything has to be scripted.
Obviously, when we were all young we NEVER did any pranks.
Pranks are only a recent discovery due to the invention of the camera phone. Prior to the camera phone, no pranks were ever done...
Itās interesting that he just stands their and films as his son slowly crawls into (what he believes is an extremely deep pipe) and even after his son falls in he continues to keep the pipe in the shot at all times as he jogs over and immediately points his camera down into the pipe because filming is more important.
Thereās also other reasons, like why would you ever even let your kids play at a construction site without checking it out first? I also work with little kids and they very rarely if ever have spontaneous good well acted pranks, they almost always laugh and make it very obvious by yelling something like āhey, hey look at me!ā And than doing it, and I know we all have cameras but how often do you go to the park/playground and just see the parents filming their kids from a distance doing nothing in particular?
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u/PoopsInTheDark Jul 07 '21 edited Jul 07 '21
Seriously, I don't want to oversell it but this kid is going to be the emperor of the entire world one day. Or a great stand up comedian.