This might be a really dumb question, but are body doubles even like an actual real thing?
I can see how they were on like medieval times when no one actually knew what anyone they hadn’t met in person looked like, and if some fancy guy surrounded by guards was supposed to be the king he was probably the king.
But in modern times with photos and mass media and Internet I don’t think anyone would fall for it.
This might be a really dumb question, but are body doubles even like an actual real thing?
Every time i read about it seems to be all allegiations coming from this being really a TV trope - and indeed the place where the doubles are undoubtledly used is the movie scene. Libs of course tend to believe in 50 body doubles of Saddam Hussein and that half of world leaders at any given time are dead and secretly replaced.
Outside of like…stunt doubles? Not that I am particularly aware of, and definitely not in the way these articles try to frame it.
Could a decoy motorcade or something be sent out? Yes, that is possible and probably advisable when the CIA wants you dead. But you don’t have other people pretend to be you and make public appearances and give speeches at your behest.
This might be a really dumb question, but are body doubles even like an actual real thing?
I can see how they were on like medieval times when no one actually knew what anyone they hadn’t met in person looked like, and if some fancy guy surrounded by guards was supposed to be the king he was probably the king.
But in modern times with photos and mass media and Internet I don’t think anyone would fall for it.
Every time i read about it seems to be all allegiations coming from this being really a TV trope - and indeed the place where the doubles are undoubtledly used is the movie scene. Libs of course tend to believe in 50 body doubles of Saddam Hussein and that half of world leaders at any given time are dead and secretly replaced.
I remember during the Iraq war this same shit rag had headlines every other day about Saddam being dead and his body double being in charge.
Then they would show a bunch of guys with moustaches in berets.
“All nonwhite people look the same” moment
Outside of like…stunt doubles? Not that I am particularly aware of, and definitely not in the way these articles try to frame it.
Could a decoy motorcade or something be sent out? Yes, that is possible and probably advisable when the CIA wants you dead. But you don’t have other people pretend to be you and make public appearances and give speeches at your behest.