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Hello, Internet, welcome to film theory, the show that knows that a lot of you have been waiting for this theory for...

Longer than you think.

Yeah, today we are finally talking about a movie called Immasus Blue, one of the coolest projects I've ever seen from independent creators here on YouTube.

Yeah, this is an entire movie made by a channel called Fortress Films released right here on this website for free.

You guys recommended this one a lot, and you know what?

This is one of those situations where I should have done this one way sooner, because there's just so much to dig into here.

But I'm getting way ahead of myself. What even is this?

In Mrs. Blue is what is known as a machinima. That's basically an entire film made within a video

game. Have you ever seen a show like Red versus Blue or a funny clip of a gaming character

doing something that absolutely did not happen in their game? That was likely a machinima. In this case,

Emisys Blue was created using a software called Source Filmmaker, created by video game company Valve Software.

Have you ever bought a game on your computer from Steam or played a Half-Life, portal, or Bluffer Dead game?

That was Valve, and in 2012 they released Source Filmmaker, their internal software for making video game trailers to the public.

Fun fact, Skivety Toilet was also done in Source Filmmaker, though I think

what Fortress Films is doing here is probably just a little bit more impressive. Basically,

they've taken the characters and world of Valve's multiplayer shooter, Team Fortress 2,

and straight up made a movie out of it. In case you need the low down here, Team Fortress is set

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