I was very naieve when I was young (still am). I don't remember the year, but I was maybe 7 or so; that would have made it '67. When I saw a movie called, "Your Cheatin' Heart" about Hank William's life, starring George Hamilton I thought Mr. Hamilton was actually Hank Williams and died right there before my eyes. I cried and cried about that.

Tena

When I used to watch movies, and someone got shot, I thought they really died. I was under the impression that the director/producer paid the actor/actress, money up front to enjoy life, but then when the movie was shot, the individual, after have enjoyed life to the max. for a while, would die

Anon

When I was a kid, I used to believe when a actor/actoress die in a movie, they will really die and won't act in the next movie

Sushma

I used to believe that when somebody died in a film, that person actually died in real life.

Anon

When I was very young, I had a very odd belief about action scenes in movies and TV shows. I don't know where I got the idea, but I thought when every you saw about to die and they were not the star - stunt men tossed off a roof, that sort of thing - that the person had really died. I thought they were prisners on death row whose death was part of a movie as some sort of bizzare special treat.

Sullivan

when i used to see a character die in a movie, i used to believe that the actor would get payed and spend all his money b4 he actually goes and dies in the movie...after seeing the same actor diing over and over again i asked my mum how many times a person can live and die.....

jazmine

i used to believe that when people die on movies it was because they didnt mind dying because thay are ill or something

becky b

i used to belive when people died in movies it happend for in real.

Anon

When i was younger than 11, i belived that people risked and sold their lives for movies. So i say to my daddy, how come people die for movies, like that guy got shot with an arrow and died, why whoud he do such a dumb thing. Dad, i thought that guy was dead (as i saw the same actor in another movie) he said, yea in the movie. I was puzzled, so im thinking harder, people die then come alive and die again? lolz... i found out by watching how they made the movie...

Anon

When I was young, I thought that when a person in a movie died, they really died. I remember thinking that they must have paid them A LOT of money to kill themselves for a movie.

Anon

When I was around 8 or 9, I used to believe that when people died in tv shows and movies via guns or jumping off a cliff, they really died. My explanation for this was that prisoners on death row volunteered for the job and were substituted in at the last second, since they were going to die anyway.

itstrue

I used to beleive if they killed someone on a TV show that the person died in real life.

Anon

I used to think that the poeple who died in movies were actually death-row inmates that got to choose this way to be killed

NotNull

Actors in western films really died when they were shot. That's why the cast often consisted of older men who didn't have much remaining lifetime anyway.

Michael

I used to believe anyone killed on TV or in movies were prisoners from death row.

Toby

when i was little i belived that people who got killed in horror movies were real people that just wanted to die.

*heather*

When I was younger, I believed all the action sequences in films were very real. All the people that got shot, I figured them to be criminals or dissidents forced into acting, stomach wounds were aimed for unlethality and the head wounds for people who were to be executed anyhow.

Movies with a lot of death were quite puzzling to me, wondering how they managed to get all those prisoners. Later, someone told me that people had bags of ketchup under their clothes and the guns were firing pellets.

Anon

I used to think that when they killed someone in the movies they would get a stunt double that looked identical to the actor, and then kill him (for real).

Katie

I used to belive that people really died in TV shows. I'd wait for Lassie to go for Timmy's throat after the barn burned down. But Jonathon Prost grew up to be a has been. I'm glad I was wrong!

Jake

I used to believe that when bad guys got shot in the cowboy and indian movies, that they were really bad guys from the prisons being shot as punishment for their crimes! I got worried when I saw the scenes where lots of people died thinking what a lot of bad people lived in the world.

Sue