Did anyone else notice that the majority of the roadside billboards in this doc were "photoshopped?" Even if they were based on real signs or posters, the filmmakers were trying to pass them off as if they were driving right by them, which they weren't. Not very honest for a "documentary."
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When I lived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in the 90s I noticed quite a few of the billboards, such as "That thing about love thy neighbor - I meant it. God." Out here on the west coast I haven't seen any but those were real in the deep south, USA.
I don't know if all were real, however. I also remember seeing "Don't make me come down there. God."
funny, i grew up in Baton Rouge. I live in Dallas now and still see signs like that a lot.
I am not saying that all of the signs were fake. What I am saying is that a lot of them were. I think that the fake signs were at least in part copied off of real signs (or bumper stickers, T-shirts, etc) that the crew just couldn't get video of or wanted a bumper sticker slogan put up on a billboard.
It's misleading, no matter what the exact details are.
You may be right about that, my former fellow Baton Rougean.
I've driven throughout the rural USA on business, and I have seen many of those exact signs.
shareeven if you saw similar ones, they weren't the exact same ones. either they are super lucky - did they literally driver everywhere? - or they sought them out - or they recreated/created signs with Adobe CS... which do you think is more likely?
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