fyre festival is going well

"what's the deal with all the feral dogs?" is a line i think about a lot

@ApocalypticSeinfeld

"who has the fucking conch in this joint?!"

this is one of those rare stories that would work equally well adapted as either a riotous comedy of errors or a terrifying descent-into-madness horror movie

cannibal lolocaust

would watch

ferris bueller's flesh off

21 stump feet

Feral Dog Day Afternoon.

a wild pack of fyre fest dogs

it's wild hogs that live there, for that irl Lord of the Flies connection.

but saying you are chased by wild dogs (and possibly wolves!) def sounds tougher, you a real man now dog.

I only get chased by artisanal untamed dogs

Indeed?

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/festivals/8476448/ja-rule-fyre-festival-failure-interview-drink-champs-video

I don't think I've ever wanted the death penalty for anyone. There's a first time for everything, I'd reckon.

lol he is now talking about the allegations as if they're true.

sorry wrong thread :)

he's looking trim at least

If the courts buy this then who’s going to be the intrepid mental health expert that breaks the tender news to literally all of Silicon Valley

(btw very proud to have a reason for posting in this legendary thread)

Six years, not nearly enough but even so. (He's pled guilty to other charges he's not been sentenced for yet.)

https://www.businessinsider.com/fyre-festival-founder-sentenced-to-6-years-in-prison-2018-10

ja rule skates, sad to see

(six years is quite a long time ned! i know this guy was a villain and a dick as well as a legend but don't let's let carceral fever consume us!)

I had missed this.

https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/fyre-festival-founder-billy-mcfarland-apologizes-from-prison-im-devastated-but-accepting-1203021236/

Oh yeah.

Get your exclusive first look at FYRE — a revealing new doc about the insanity and rapid unraveling of Fyre Festival: the greatest party that never happened. Premieres January 18. #NetflixNewsWeek pic.twitter.com/B4iaR3UJwM

— See What's Next (@seewhatsnext) December 10, 2018

Quick note that this is separate from the Hulu documentary series. I will happily watch both.

stoked for the madness babee

so looking forward to that
also I first had this thought when watching the Amy Winehouse documentary is that the documentary is really different now that -- if you can get in touch with people -- literally every second of every event has been recorded or photographed by someone on their phone

Schadenfyred

I’m mostly looking forward to a movie not so much a documentary.

"It's Jonestown all over again!"

a producers-esque scheme to stage a failed festival in order to be immortalized in multiple documentaries

let’s just do it and be legends immortalized in multiple documentaries

I Am The God Of Hell Fyre

A week and a day to go!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ0KNVU2fV0

Again, Hulu documentary series following later in the year.

Hahaha or rather, NOW. Hulu clearly thought "Yeah, about that," and their own documentary -- a standalone move in the end, not a series -- is now live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljkaq_he-BU

Scott Tobias with some good reporting on some of the differences between the two documentaries:

https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/1/15/18183308/fyre-festival-documentary-netflix-hulu-billy-mcfarland-pay

Borrowing a comment of mine elsewhere: Neither will tell the whole story, so I’ll enjoy both. And I very much enjoyed the Hulu one last night, a few clunky moments aside (generational assumptions/explanations are far less interesting than reflections on the eternal nature of scamming, and more of those would have been nice). It was fairly obvious that McFarland was getting trashed by everyone and everything — including the evidence — throughout the Hulu one and it was worth it to see his multiple moments of flopsweat and freezing in the headlights — also willing to bet whatever money he got was immediately eaten up by legal fees. (And I mean, dude then pled guilty, is in prison now and has been ordered to repay an amount in the millions.) If the Netflix one does a similarly good job at trashing the Fuck Jerry squad then I’m fine and perhaps they might; how they present themselves in the film could be just as self-owning. If their film paints a ‘we were but innocents’ picture then nah. (FJ specifically put the blame on an ex-employee of theirs who is in the Hulu documentary and clearly wasn't having it; given all the still-pending lawsuits across the board I'm partially surprised there's as much on the record as there is.)

Also, the Hulu one gave some time to a number of Bahamian voices, including workers who were never paid, and a local reporter who got in a slew of well-observed points re economic dynamics and the tourism industrial complex as the film went along -- vitally important and nothing to sneeze at. The Netflix one has to at least match that.

footage of feral dogs or gtfo

"A dramatic reenactment."

GTFO

Ned got all the smart-people points about the Hulu doc in, so I’d just like to add a detail that everyone in this thread probably would’ve been salivating over earlier on: according to McFarland in his interview here the reason they couldn’t get the attendees to their luxury villas (which he claims, who knows how truthfully, that they’d actually rented some of) is because someone lost the box with all the luxury villa keys in it.
Even if the documentary didn’t pay him $250,000 for an interview I think gems like that would’ve been worth it.

If you watch both Fyre Fest docs at the same time they sync up like the new Wizard of Oz / Dark Side of the Moon.

is because someone lost the box with all the luxury villa keys in it.

We loved that. Also I had a realization that these docs -- in terms of featuring its principals spouting off idiocies that they don't realize are ridiculous -- means we have the American equivalent to the Bros doc.

Do either of these docs have "dramatic reenactments" or is it all talking witnesses? While I generally hate when there's some dude dressed as King Tut or Howard Taft or whatever in TV documentaries, low-rung actors miming out low-rung lifestyle influencers could be excellent.

Talking witnesses but also tons of footage, since we're at the technological state now where you don't need to do reenactments with an event like this -- the whole point was that people were recording themselves online. There's also enough photos from McFarland's earlier ventures, a video of his goofy early demo presentation, etc.

Licensing all that cell phone footage from attendees must have been a real bear of a job...

so which fyre fest doc is the prestige and which is the illusionist

— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) January 15, 2019

Okay, the Netflix one is definitely good too. More concrete thoughts tomorrow.

I’ve been watching the Netflix doc tonight, as I putter around the house. I won’t say much (don’t wanna upstage Ned), other than that it’s well-produced... and man, what a story.

the Evian moment in the Netflix doc is one hell of a *record scratch*

OMG, I just got to that part

netflix doc gave me anxiety

I might be just sick of the whole story now, but I liked the Hulu one a lot more. Netflix had too many dudes trying to absolve themselves of any responsibility... and what was with that one attendee talking about beating up the tents around him because him and his friends didn't want neighbors. That just zipped by - really gross. Turns out making fun of influencer interviewees >>> trying to take the attendees seriously.