Fact Friday

  Today's movie fact is about another favourite of mine.The remake of a 2001 German film called Das Experiment.The 2010 movie The Experiment is about a psychological study in which the participants are divided into groups either acting as prison guards or as inmates.The movie is very emotional and very powerful and is starring Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Maggie Grace and Cam Gigandet.
  Both, the original and the remake, are based on a real life experiment which was conducted at Stanford University in 1971.Twenty-four male students were selected to take on randomly assigned roles of guards and prisoners in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building.
  The experiment, however, took a dark turn when the guards started psychologically torturing prisoners.Many of the prisoners passively accepted psychological abuse and ,at the request of the guards, harassed other prisoners who attempted to prevent it.Two of the prisoners quit the experiment early and the entire experiment was abruptly stopped after only six days.
  Certain portions of the experiment were filmed and excerpts of the footage are publicly available.

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