Mats Steen had a rare disease that wasted his muscles until he could barely move his fingers. But after his death, his family discovered a rich online community that supported him through the game 'World of Warcraft.'
Mats Steen had a rare disease that wasted his muscles until he could barely move his fingers. His family thought his illness would prevent him from developing friendships. But after his death, his family discovered a rich online community that supported him through the game"World of Warcraft." A new Netflix documentary interweaves Steen's offline struggles with animated reconstructions of his time online.
How did you take this raw material from his blog, all the digital text and communication, and try to re-enact his life in key moments in the game? “But they said, ‘You made one mistake, Benjamin.’ And I was very nervous because, you know, making a mistake like that, you know, can mean two more years of work. And they said, ‘Ibelin liked women with more leather clothes.’ And I said, ‘Yeah, you know, the women had more leather on them.’ And they showed me what kind of leather even. We went into the animation again and changed the clothes on some of the women.”Mats was also complicated, like all humans are complicated.
In my case, there’s somebody very close to my family who I worry about because this person spends 10 hours in front of a screen playing a game. To me, this person's life is just kind of wasting away. What do you discover about what this world can be that you want us to discover?
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