beniki said:
I routinely spoil books and movies to my friends with absurd plot points (e.g. 'Oh she turns into a guy', 'Then he's eaten by a rabid hamster').
The thing is every now and then I tell the truth, and the shock of realisation is double what the original creator intended.
Now my friends can't tell whether my absurd plot points are real or not, and even though I'm spoiling the show, there's still a sense of uncertainty.
Incidently, in Avatar 2, James Cameron appears on screen as a chinchilla, and in Harry Potter the Deathly Hallows Ginny and Hermoine experiment with each other. The look on Ron's face is priceless.
Oh, I do that to. I open the book to the last page, and pretend to start reading.
"John held the gun to his head, thinking of all the death he had caused, of all the friends he had lost. Without so much as a word, he squeezed the trigger. The bullet glided through his brain, destroying memories, events, erasing them for good. The bullet exited his head, spraying chunks of brain and skull fragments onto the floor. John collapsed, a half-smile on his face. The gun cycled a new round. It was ready to kill again."
People have come to expect that one, so I've been thinking up some alternatives. With the protagonists name replacing John, naturally.
