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* ThanksgivingEpisode: Dan Schoffer's original idea for his screenplay was to explore the awkward "first Thanksgiving home" after going away to college and how it's often a defining moment for a young adult realizing how much they've changed since childhood. Requiring that the movie take place within the five days of Thanksgiving break (from the Wednesday before Thanksgiving to the Sunday after) ends up being one of the constraints the producers put on both films.
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* VulgarHumor: Shane compulsively cannot stop engaging in this, both in the content of the movie he makes and in mugging for the cameras for the behind-the-scenes documentary. A notable moment is where for no other reason than wanting to "give them what they want to see" he lets the camera crew film him using a neti pot, then drink the water that just passed through his sinuses.
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* VulgarHumor: Shane compulsively cannot stop engaging in this, both in the content of the movie he makes and in mugging for the cameras for the behind-the-scenes documentary. A notable moment is where for no other reason than wanting to "give them what they want to see" he lets the camera crew film him using a neti pot, then drink the water that just passed through his sinuses.sinuses.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: It becomes an issue that Dan Schoffer wrote his original screenplay based on his experiences leaving home for college and looking back on his history of drinking and partying as a teenager, and Anna took off from his script to write about her and her friends' similar experiences -- but Shane Dawson never ''had'' any such experiences, as someone who never went to college and has never been a drinker or partier (and has a past as a {{NEET}}). It quickly becomes apparent that most of the knowledge he's drawing on for this movie is just [[SmallReferencePools having watched popular movies about teen partying]].
* WriteWhatYouKnow: It becomes an issue that Dan Schoffer wrote his original screenplay based on his experiences leaving home for college and looking back on his history of drinking and partying as a teenager, and Anna took off from his script to write about her and her friends' similar experiences -- but Shane Dawson never ''had'' any such experiences, as someone who never went to college and has never been a drinker or partier (and has a past as a {{NEET}}). It quickly becomes apparent that most of the knowledge he's drawing on for this movie is just [[SmallReferencePools having watched popular movies about teen partying]].
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* AdaptationalJobChange: There's some talk of changing the character of Scott in ''Not Cool'' from a former JerkJock to an aspiring photographer, so Shane can more realistically play him. Shane demands that he be an amateur still photographer and ''not'' a videographer or filmmaker because he wants to avoid playing an AuthorAvatar (but doesn't really succeed).
* PetTheDog: Even Shane's haters have to admit there are some sweet moments he has with his friends on the show -- the biggest one probably being him getting choked up about how his longtime friend and collaborator Drew Monson (who was only eighteen at the time) got a once-in-a-lifetime chance to act in a feature film because of him.
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* TooManyCooksSpoilTheSoup: This narrative quickly develops about Anna's film, that her biggest challenge is maintaining a coherent vision while her brother-in-law, her husband and other well-meaning interlopers keep giving her advice and undermining her authority on her own project. This contrasts to Shane, who gets a lot of praise for being "decisive" and sticking to his guns -- the problem being he has no awareness that his decisions are ''[[SuicidalOverconfidence terrible]]''.
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** This narrative quickly develops about Anna's film, that her biggest challenge is maintaining a coherent vision while her brother-in-law, her husband and other well-meaning interlopers keep giving her advice and undermining her authority on her own project. This contrasts to Shane, who gets a lot of praise for being "decisive" and sticking to his guns -- the problem being he has no awareness that his decisions are ''[[SuicidalOverconfidenceterrible]]''.terrible]]''.
** Despite Shane clearly seeing himself as the sole creative mind behind his film, this ends up becoming an issue for him too -- in the sense that quite a lot of the actual day-to-day work of running the production ends up being done by Lauren and his other collaborators, which leads to miscommunications.
** This narrative quickly develops about Anna's film, that her biggest challenge is maintaining a coherent vision while her brother-in-law, her husband and other well-meaning interlopers keep giving her advice and undermining her authority on her own project. This contrasts to Shane, who gets a lot of praise for being "decisive" and sticking to his guns -- the problem being he has no awareness that his decisions are ''[[SuicidalOverconfidence
** Despite Shane clearly seeing himself as the sole creative mind behind his film, this ends up becoming an issue for him too -- in the sense that quite a lot of the actual day-to-day work of running the production ends up being done by Lauren and his other collaborators, which leads to miscommunications.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Shane accuses Zachary Quinto especially and all his other critics of being this, claiming that Quinto's work on ''So Notorious'' and other "dumb fun" TV shows gives him no right to judge Shane's work. Quinto shoots back that it's not just about the offensiveness or the tone of Shane's humor but its ''quality''.
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* {{Nepotism}}: It's easy to accuse Zachary Quinto of this, since he came into the project in the first place as a longtime friend of Anna's husband who'd worked with their company on indie projects in the past, and he ends up complaining that he had no idea who Shane was or what his content was like before signing on. That said, even if his eventual opposition to Shane was purely based on favoritism, it clearly didn't ''work'', and Shane still took home the money.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: Despite constant SelfDeprecation about how he wants to break out from the tiny pond of [=YouTube=] and become a real Hollywood director, Shane ''obviously'' thinks very highly of himself based on his online success, and you can see him visibly recharging his self-esteem when basking in applause from his fans at Vidcon.
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* TooManyCooksSpoilTheSoup: This narrative quickly develops about Anna's film, that her biggest challenge is maintaining a coherent vision while her brother-in-law, her husband and other well-meaning interlopers keep giving her advice and undermining her authority on her own project. This contrasts to Shane, who gets a lot of praise for being "decisive" and sticking to his guns -- the problem being he has no awareness that his decisions are ''[[SuicidalOverconfidence terrible]]''.
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* AdaptationNameChange: None of the ''main'' characters' names were changed (as part of the contest rules), but ''Hollidaysburg'' changes the name of Tori's older sister from "Marissa" to "Angela", and her fiancé goes from a man named Gil to a woman named Courtney (played by Anna herself).
* AdaptationalSexuality: Tori's sister becomes a lesbian in Anna's script. Shane does this to a lesser degree by making a joke out of implying that Tori's sister's fiancé is a closeted gay man.
* AdaptationalSexuality: Tori's sister becomes a lesbian in Anna's script. Shane does this to a lesser degree by making a joke out of implying that Tori's sister's fiancé is a closeted gay man.
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* DenserAndWackier: Shane's script is this compared to the original screenplay, to an absurd degree, while what Anna does with it is essentially CerebusSyndrome.
* DescendedCreator:
** Both films have their directors acting in them, although Shane playing the lead role of Scott is a ''far'' more substantial acting burden than Anna taking a CreatorCameo as Tori's sister's fiancée Courtney. Having to both direct and star in the movie predictably ends up making Shane's job far more difficult.
** A better parallel than Anna's bit part as Courtney is her brother-in-law and co-producer Phil playing [[TheDanza Scott's brother Phil]], which is a much more significant part and an instance where she may have let her feelings about him as a person lead her to overestimate his acting ability.
* DescendedCreator:
** Both films have their directors acting in them, although Shane playing the lead role of Scott is a ''far'' more substantial acting burden than Anna taking a CreatorCameo as Tori's sister's fiancée Courtney. Having to both direct and star in the movie predictably ends up making Shane's job far more difficult.
** A better parallel than Anna's bit part as Courtney is her brother-in-law and co-producer Phil playing [[TheDanza Scott's brother Phil]], which is a much more significant part and an instance where she may have let her feelings about him as a person lead her to overestimate his acting ability.
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* GenderFlip: Anna's script replaces Scott's younger sister Janie with an older brother Phil, in an unsubtle {{Tuckerization}} of her real-life brother-in-law and co-producer Phil Quinaz, who plays the character.
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* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode:
** Surprisingly, given how negative so many other people's reactions are to ''Not Cool'', original screenwriter Dan Schoffer ''greatly'' prefers Shane's take on his script to Anna's, going so far as to angrily predict Anna's movie will fail and cut ties with her, essentially joining Shane's team.
** Producer Corey Moosa also goes to bat for Shane's movie, breaking with his business partners Zachary Quinto and Neal Dodson over the issue, and going so far as to cameo in the movie himself (standing in for Shane's butt when there's a scene of him mooning people out the window) to get it finished.
** Surprisingly, given how negative so many other people's reactions are to ''Not Cool'', original screenwriter Dan Schoffer ''greatly'' prefers Shane's take on his script to Anna's, going so far as to angrily predict Anna's movie will fail and cut ties with her, essentially joining Shane's team.
** Producer Corey Moosa also goes to bat for Shane's movie, breaking with his business partners Zachary Quinto and Neal Dodson over the issue, and going so far as to cameo in the movie himself (standing in for Shane's butt when there's a scene of him mooning people out the window) to get it finished.
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* AdaptedOut: ''How Soon Is Now'' had three parallel love stories running through its plot -- the {{Narrator}} Tori and her crush from high school Scott, Scott's girlfriend Heather who dumps him in the first scene and her admirer from the WrongSideOfTheTracks William, and Scott's sister Janie and her dogged admirer Joel. Both finished movies drop one of these stories to save time -- ''Not Cool'' reduces Heather to a FlatCharacter PsychoExGirlfriend and drops William, while ''Hollidaysburg'' completely deletes Janie and Joel.
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* AdaptedOut: ''How Soon Is Now'' had three parallel love stories running through its plot -- the {{Narrator}} Tori and her crush from high school Scott, Scott's girlfriend Heather who dumps him in the first scene and her admirer from the WrongSideOfTheTracks William, and Scott's sister Janie and her [[GiveGeeksAChance dogged admirer nerdy admirer]] Joel. Both finished movies drop one of these stories to save time -- ''Not Cool'' reduces Heather to a FlatCharacter PsychoExGirlfriend and drops William, while ''Hollidaysburg'' completely deletes Janie and Joel.
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* AdaptedOut: ''How Soon Is Now'' had three parallel love stories running through its plot -- the {{Narrator}} Tori and her crush from high school Scott, Scott's girlfriend Heather who dumps him in the first scene and her admirer from the WrongSideOfTheTracks William, and Scott's sister Janie and her dogged admirer Joel. Both finished movies drop one of these stories to save time -- ''Not Cool'' reduces Heather to a FlatCharacter PsychoExGirlfriend and drops William, while ''Hollidaysburg'' completely deletes Janie and Joel.
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* NamesTheSame: Intentionally enforced on the scripts of ''Not Cool'' and ''Hollidaysburg'', in order to make it easier in theory for audiences to directly compare the two movies and what they changed from the original script. Given how different these two movies became, the effect is often surreal when going from one to the other (''especially'' the different ways both movies treat Heather).
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* IgnoredEpiphany: Shane comes into the project wanting to broaden his appeal beyond his [=YouTube=] audience, only to ''repeatedly'' reject any feedback telling him to adjust his sense of humor, often quite angrily and rudely, and predictably ends up with a movie no one seems to like except his existing fans.
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* UntrustingCommunity: Word gets around Pittsburgh pretty quickly about the kind of content Shane creates, and it becomes a serious obstacle to him getting actors and locations as people don't want to be associated with him. Rather than rethinking his public image as a result of this, it just sends him into tirades about people being {{Ungrateful Bastard}}s.
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* TroubledProduction: Applies to both films, thanks to the [[NoBudget fairly harsh constraints of money and time]] they were made under. It gets a lot worse for Shane's movie, though.
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* GenreShift: The original script starts off as a fairly formulaic coming-of-age dramedy. In Shane's hands it becomes a wacky grossout teen comedy (which he thinks of as an homage to ''Film/{{Superbad}}'' and ''Film/AmericanPie''). In Anna's it becomes a far more cerebral, experimental indie film.
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* NeverMyFault: Shane, almost constantly. Also characteristic of the people Shane hires, like his locations manager shrugging off the fact that he's asked over a hundred people to spend the day in a building with no heat and no working bathrooms.
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Both teams are like this, neither of them being able to afford top-notch talent on their budget, but Shane's far more so -- early on, producer Corey Moosa comments on Shane's decision to save money by hiring younger, less experienced employees he gets along with better (everyone in his RealLife social circle being under 30) and how this might cause problems later on. Sure enough, the fact that his Director of Photography and his Locations Manager -- both extremely important roles with a ton of responsibility -- are both kids fresh out of college bites him in the ass hard.
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* CreatorBreakdown:
** Shane comes close to this at multiple times throughout the film, including threatening to storm out and fly back to LA the moment an American Eagle store delays (not denies, ''delays'') approval for a filming permit. The news that Quinto has pulled his name off the film sends him fully spiraling into one.
** Quinto himself has one after screening Shane's film, going off in a shockingly frank tirade about how offended he is by how bad ''Not Cool'' is and how disrespectfully he thinks his time and his money have been wasted.
** Shane comes close to this at multiple times throughout the film, including threatening to storm out and fly back to LA the moment an American Eagle store delays (not denies, ''delays'') approval for a filming permit. The news that Quinto has pulled his name off the film sends him fully spiraling into one.
** Quinto himself has one after screening Shane's film, going off in a shockingly frank tirade about how offended he is by how bad ''Not Cool'' is and how disrespectfully he thinks his time and his money have been wasted.
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* GirlFriday: Lauren is this for Shane, and it's a thankless job. It's implied Anna was this to her husband in the past, and that's what's creating tension between them now with her in the driver's seat (although their relationship isn't even close to being as inequitable as Shane and Lauren's).
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* CantTakeCriticism: Both filmmakers have moments of this, but Anna's pale to ''nothing'' compared to Shane's -- Shane is so terrified of any negative reaction to his movie that he packs the test screening with friends and family (thus making it not really a valid test screening) and then won't even stay in the room to hear their feedback, and then constantly procrastinates on reading their feedback or talking to anyone about it afterwards, forcing Lauren to hire an outside professional to make the necessary edits.
** Although this is the worst part, this behavior starts far earlier in the film -- Shane repeatedly snaps at people whenever they simply inform him he can't have something he wants or something he tried isn't working, and at one point tries to forbid people talking shit about him behind his back.
** Although this is the worst part, this behavior starts far earlier in the film -- Shane repeatedly snaps at people whenever they simply inform him he can't have something he wants or something he tried isn't working, and at one point tries to forbid people talking shit about him behind his back.
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* SocialMediaBeforeReason: Shane is ''obsessed'' with how people see him online and how the process of making this movie will affect his reputation.
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* RomanceOnTheSet: Shane cracks a joke about expecting this to happen between him and Creator/CheramiLeigh but immediately follows it up with SelfDeprecation that she'll probably throw up as soon as she touches him.
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* DearNegativeReader: Shane gives a long and embittered one of these to the camera after he gets the news that Quinto is pulling his name off the movie.
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* ProductionPosse: Part of the point of this show is showing us that both Anna and Shane have one that they're dependent on, and the difficulties they have keeping their professional lives separate from their personal relationships.
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* SmurfetteBreakout: Anna has always been the only woman or one of a few women on a male-dominated team in the past, and has previously been seen as an assistant to her husband Victor. Her journey in this series is about trying to break out from that mold and be seen as a capable writer/director in her own right.
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* SmurfetteBreakout: Anna has always been the only woman or one of a few women on a male-dominated team in the past, and has previously been seen as an assistant to her husband Victor. Her journey in this series is about trying to break out from that mold and be seen as a capable writer/director in her own right.right.
* VulgarHumor: Shane compulsively cannot stop engaging in this, both in the content of the movie he makes and in mugging for the cameras for the behind-the-scenes documentary. A notable moment is where for no other reason than wanting to "give them what they want to see" he lets the camera crew film him using a neti pot, then drink the water that just passed through his sinuses.
* VulgarHumor: Shane compulsively cannot stop engaging in this, both in the content of the movie he makes and in mugging for the cameras for the behind-the-scenes documentary. A notable moment is where for no other reason than wanting to "give them what they want to see" he lets the camera crew film him using a neti pot, then drink the water that just passed through his sinuses.
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* ManChild: Many people who hate Shane in this film point out how much he comes off as one of these, constantly making crude jokes, throwing temper tantrums, and seemingly relying on his producer Lauren to be his mom both professionally and personally.
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* SlobsVsSnobs: A variation on this trope -- the producers clearly meant Anna to be the "snob" and Shane to be the "slob" in this equation, but unlike most instances of this trope Anna is clearly the underdog throughout the whole process. Her film school degree, her industry connections, and her much greater experience and knowledge about filmmaking are all of very little help to winning the contest compared to Shane's Internet success.
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* SlobsVsSnobs: A variation on this trope -- the producers clearly meant Anna to be the "snob" and Shane to be the "slob" in this equation, but unlike most instances of this trope Anna is clearly the underdog throughout the whole process. Her film school degree, her industry connections, and her much greater experience and knowledge about filmmaking are all of very little help to winning the contest compared to Shane's Internet success.success.
* SmurfetteBreakout: Anna has always been the only woman or one of a few women on a male-dominated team in the past, and has previously been seen as an assistant to her husband Victor. Her journey in this series is about trying to break out from that mold and be seen as a capable writer/director in her own right.
* SmurfetteBreakout: Anna has always been the only woman or one of a few women on a male-dominated team in the past, and has previously been seen as an assistant to her husband Victor. Her journey in this series is about trying to break out from that mold and be seen as a capable writer/director in her own right.
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''The Chair'' can currently be viewed for free on [[https://tubitv.com/series/3322/the_chair Tubi]], as can both movies that resulted from it, ''[[https://tubitv.com/movies/457532/not_cool Not Cool]]'' and ''[[https://tubitv.com/movies/457531/hollidaysburg Hollidaysburg]]''.
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''The Chair'' can currently be viewed for free on [[https://tubitv.com/series/3322/the_chair Tubi]], as can both movies that resulted from it, ''[[https://tubitv.com/movies/457532/not_cool Not Cool]]'' and ''[[https://tubitv.com/movies/457531/hollidaysburg Hollidaysburg]]''.Hollidaysburg]]''.
!! This movie provides examples of:
* DownerEnding: Shane wins the contest and the $250,000, despite Zachary Quinto, his co-producer Neal, and every critic who's seen both movies pulling hard for Anna. Anna congratulates him in a blurry farewell video, trying but failing to hide her disappointment. Chris Moore tries to put a positive spin on the whole experiment in his ending speech, but reveals that even if you were pulling for both creators to succeed, the results are disappointing -- neither movie actually breaks out into mainstream success and Shane's movie was only really popular among his existing fanbase (which is exactly what he said he wanted to avoid at the beginning of the show). In RealLife, Shane's movie was still a massive financial loss for his backers (making $30k on a $600k budget), and contrary to Chris' expressed hopes for his future, Shane never made another feature film and this series only reemerged into the public eye in 2020 after his Website/YouTube career went down in the flames of scandal.
* ForegoneConclusion: It was always obvious to anyone who knows anything about how the Internet works -- or who even just has some common sense about it -- that Shane was going to win the contest.
* NewMediaAreEvil: A possibly unintentional {{Aesop}} of the finished form of this documentary, where it's very difficult in hindsight to defend Shane as having deserved to win the competition. It's especially hard to watch Shane being essentially worshiped by a fanbase of underage girls who clearly don't know any better.
* NouveauRiche: Shane is substantially more financially successful than Anna as an individual but happily dresses and acts like a slob, and has little experience with how a professional film set works.
* SlobsVsSnobs: A variation on this trope -- the producers clearly meant Anna to be the "snob" and Shane to be the "slob" in this equation, but unlike most instances of this trope Anna is clearly the underdog throughout the whole process. Her film school degree, her industry connections, and her much greater experience and knowledge about filmmaking are all of very little help to winning the contest compared to Shane's Internet success.
!! This movie provides examples of:
* DownerEnding: Shane wins the contest and the $250,000, despite Zachary Quinto, his co-producer Neal, and every critic who's seen both movies pulling hard for Anna. Anna congratulates him in a blurry farewell video, trying but failing to hide her disappointment. Chris Moore tries to put a positive spin on the whole experiment in his ending speech, but reveals that even if you were pulling for both creators to succeed, the results are disappointing -- neither movie actually breaks out into mainstream success and Shane's movie was only really popular among his existing fanbase (which is exactly what he said he wanted to avoid at the beginning of the show). In RealLife, Shane's movie was still a massive financial loss for his backers (making $30k on a $600k budget), and contrary to Chris' expressed hopes for his future, Shane never made another feature film and this series only reemerged into the public eye in 2020 after his Website/YouTube career went down in the flames of scandal.
* ForegoneConclusion: It was always obvious to anyone who knows anything about how the Internet works -- or who even just has some common sense about it -- that Shane was going to win the contest.
* NewMediaAreEvil: A possibly unintentional {{Aesop}} of the finished form of this documentary, where it's very difficult in hindsight to defend Shane as having deserved to win the competition. It's especially hard to watch Shane being essentially worshiped by a fanbase of underage girls who clearly don't know any better.
* NouveauRiche: Shane is substantially more financially successful than Anna as an individual but happily dresses and acts like a slob, and has little experience with how a professional film set works.
* SlobsVsSnobs: A variation on this trope -- the producers clearly meant Anna to be the "snob" and Shane to be the "slob" in this equation, but unlike most instances of this trope Anna is clearly the underdog throughout the whole process. Her film school degree, her industry connections, and her much greater experience and knowledge about filmmaking are all of very little help to winning the contest compared to Shane's Internet success.
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As of June 2020, there's been a sudden resurgence of interest in ''The Chair'' thanks to Shane Dawson's reputation as a FallenCreator after the massive backlash against his old content thanks to the fallout of his public conflict with Creator/JeffreeStar, with many, many of Shane's former fans coming around to the opinion that Zachary Quinto had Shane's number as a toxic narcissist all along, with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcZ0PXabwt0 Nick DiRamio]]'s postmortem going viral.
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''The Chair'' is a 2014 RealityShow created by Chris Moore, the producer of ''Film/GoodWillHunting'' and ''Film/AmericanPie'', as a new variation on his previous TV show ''Project Greenlight'', which pioneered the idea of a SetBehindTheScenes RealityShow about directing a film, in partnership with executive producer Creator/ZacharyQuinto.
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''The Chair'' is a 2014 RealityShow on Creator/{{Starz}} created by Chris Moore, the producer of ''Film/GoodWillHunting'' and ''Film/AmericanPie'', as a new variation on his previous TV show ''Project Greenlight'', which pioneered the idea of a SetBehindTheScenes RealityShow about directing a film, in partnership with executive producer Creator/ZacharyQuinto.
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The two filmmakers they chose were Anna Martemucci, previously known for her work as part of a CreatorCouple with husband VictorQuinaz on the film ''A Breakup at a Wedding'' and the Web series ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periods Periods]]'', and now-infamous [=YouTuber=] WebVideo/ShaneDawson, known at the time for shock humor aimed at teenagers.
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The two filmmakers they chose were Anna Martemucci, Martemucci (now known professionally as A.M. Lukas), previously known for her work as part of a CreatorCouple with husband VictorQuinaz Victor Quinaz on the film ''A Breakup at a Wedding'' and the Web series ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periods Periods]]'', and now-infamous [=YouTuber=] WebVideo/ShaneDawson, known at the time for shock humor aimed at teenagers.teenagers.
The premise of the series was that both creators would be given a budget of $600,000 to make a movie based on Schoffer's script with almost total creative control, stipulating only that they not change the basic plot points, the main character names and the setting of UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}} (thanks to the series being funded partially by a grant from the city of Pittsburgh). After having a few months to shoot and produce the films, both films would receive limited theatrical distribution, and moviegoers would be asked to vote on which movie they preferred, with the winner receiving a $250,000 prize.
This series was very quickly OvershadowedByControversy, over the ForegoneConclusion that, with Shane Dawson already having 10 million followers on social media before the contest, the audience would be dominated by his fans and his movie would be certain to win -- and by the fact that the movie he did make, ''Film/NotCool'', was awful enough that Zachary Quinto demanded his name be removed from the credits.
In the end, neither Dawson's film ''Not Cool'' nor Martemucci's film ''Hollidaysburg'' was a financial success, and ratings for ''The Chair'' itself were low enough that the concept was not renewed for a second season. For many years, the topic of ''The Chair'' and ''Not Cool'' was a trigger for InternetBackdraft, with Shane's fans believing he'd been backstabbed by Zachary Quinto (and by Martemucci when she spoke up about her negative opinion of Shane online a year later) and seeing this series as Hollywood industry snobs being cruel and dismissive toward a scrappy [=YouTuber=]. Meanwhile, the consensus among critics and industry professionals was almost universally that ''Hollidaysburg'' was robbed, that Shane's fans were immature children with no critical judgment, and that ''Not Cool'' winning the prize was a sign of [[NewMediaAreEvil how broken online culture was]].
As of June 2020, there's been a sudden resurgence of interest in ''The Chair'' thanks to Shane Dawson's reputation as a FallenCreator after the massive backlash against his old content thanks to the fallout of his public conflict with Creator/JeffreeStar, with many, many of Shane's former fans coming around to the opinion that Zachary Quinto had Shane's number as a toxic narcissist all along, with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcZ0PXabwt0 Nick DiRamio]]'s postmortem going viral.
''The Chair'' can currently be viewed for free on [[https://tubitv.com/series/3322/the_chair Tubi]], as can both movies that resulted from it, ''[[https://tubitv.com/movies/457532/not_cool Not Cool]]'' and ''[[https://tubitv.com/movies/457531/hollidaysburg Hollidaysburg]]''.
The premise of the series was that both creators would be given a budget of $600,000 to make a movie based on Schoffer's script with almost total creative control, stipulating only that they not change the basic plot points, the main character names and the setting of UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}} (thanks to the series being funded partially by a grant from the city of Pittsburgh). After having a few months to shoot and produce the films, both films would receive limited theatrical distribution, and moviegoers would be asked to vote on which movie they preferred, with the winner receiving a $250,000 prize.
This series was very quickly OvershadowedByControversy, over the ForegoneConclusion that, with Shane Dawson already having 10 million followers on social media before the contest, the audience would be dominated by his fans and his movie would be certain to win -- and by the fact that the movie he did make, ''Film/NotCool'', was awful enough that Zachary Quinto demanded his name be removed from the credits.
In the end, neither Dawson's film ''Not Cool'' nor Martemucci's film ''Hollidaysburg'' was a financial success, and ratings for ''The Chair'' itself were low enough that the concept was not renewed for a second season. For many years, the topic of ''The Chair'' and ''Not Cool'' was a trigger for InternetBackdraft, with Shane's fans believing he'd been backstabbed by Zachary Quinto (and by Martemucci when she spoke up about her negative opinion of Shane online a year later) and seeing this series as Hollywood industry snobs being cruel and dismissive toward a scrappy [=YouTuber=]. Meanwhile, the consensus among critics and industry professionals was almost universally that ''Hollidaysburg'' was robbed, that Shane's fans were immature children with no critical judgment, and that ''Not Cool'' winning the prize was a sign of [[NewMediaAreEvil how broken online culture was]].
As of June 2020, there's been a sudden resurgence of interest in ''The Chair'' thanks to Shane Dawson's reputation as a FallenCreator after the massive backlash against his old content thanks to the fallout of his public conflict with Creator/JeffreeStar, with many, many of Shane's former fans coming around to the opinion that Zachary Quinto had Shane's number as a toxic narcissist all along, with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcZ0PXabwt0 Nick DiRamio]]'s postmortem going viral.
''The Chair'' can currently be viewed for free on [[https://tubitv.com/series/3322/the_chair Tubi]], as can both movies that resulted from it, ''[[https://tubitv.com/movies/457532/not_cool Not Cool]]'' and ''[[https://tubitv.com/movies/457531/hollidaysburg Hollidaysburg]]''.
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The two filmmakers they chose were Anna Martemucci, previously known for her work as part of a CreatorCouple with husband VictorQuinaz on the film ''A Breakup at a Wedding'' and the WebSeries ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periods. Periods.]]'', org/wiki/Periods Periods]]'', and now-infamous [=YouTuber=] Creator/ShaneDawson, WebVideo/ShaneDawson, known at the time for shock humor aimed at teenagers.
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''The Chair'' is a 2014 RealityShow created by Chris Moore, the producer of ''Film/GoodWillHunting'' and ''Film/AmericanPie'', as a new variation on his previous TV show ''Project Greenlight'', which pioneered the idea of a SetBehindTheScenes RealityShow about directing a film, in partnership with executive producer Creator/ZacharyQuinto.
Unlike Project Greenlight taking and evaluating pitches from wannabe directors they created themselves, ''The Chair'' was an experiment where two filmmakers from very different backgrounds -- one graduate of a film school in New York, one Website/YouTube star known for his viral success with raunchy humor -- make a movie from an existing unproduced screenplay (''[[http://assets.starz.com/stzcom/thechair/HOW_SOON_IS_NOW.pdf How Soon Is Now]]'' by Dan Schoffer) based on their two wildly divergent artistic sensibilities.
The two filmmakers they chose were Anna Martemucci, previously known for her work as part of a CreatorCouple with husband VictorQuinaz on the film ''A Breakup at a Wedding'' and the WebSeries ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periods. Periods.]]'', and now-infamous [=YouTuber=] Creator/ShaneDawson, known at the time for shock humor aimed at teenagers.
Unlike Project Greenlight taking and evaluating pitches from wannabe directors they created themselves, ''The Chair'' was an experiment where two filmmakers from very different backgrounds -- one graduate of a film school in New York, one Website/YouTube star known for his viral success with raunchy humor -- make a movie from an existing unproduced screenplay (''[[http://assets.starz.com/stzcom/thechair/HOW_SOON_IS_NOW.pdf How Soon Is Now]]'' by Dan Schoffer) based on their two wildly divergent artistic sensibilities.
The two filmmakers they chose were Anna Martemucci, previously known for her work as part of a CreatorCouple with husband VictorQuinaz on the film ''A Breakup at a Wedding'' and the WebSeries ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periods. Periods.]]'', and now-infamous [=YouTuber=] Creator/ShaneDawson, known at the time for shock humor aimed at teenagers.
