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Director Seth Gordon heavily manipulated hours of interview footage in his legendary 2007 Donkey Kong documentary The King of Kong to artificially frame hot sauce mogul Billy…

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Reality is notoriously bad at giving us clear-cut villains, so documentary editors simply invent them in post-production. Retro arcade culture is mostly just middle-aged men sitting in dark rooms, but competitive Donkey Kong was completely revitalized once the filmmakers purposefully sliced up quotes to create a classic David versus Goliath narrative out of pure nerd sweat.

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