Filmmaker brothers Maclain and Chapman Way told RadioTimes.com why they chose to shine a light on the Pacers-Pistons brawl. <\/p>
The first instalment of Netflix\u2019s Untold<\/a> \u2013 a docuseries about remarkable stories in the world of sport \u2013 arrived on the streamer this week, with Malice at the Palace detailing the infamous Pacers-Pistons NBA brawl of 2004.<\/p>\n Speaking exclusively to\u00a0RadioTimes.com<\/a>, the series\u2019 creators Chapman and Maclain Way explained why they chose to shine a new light on the altercation between the two teams and fans, saying that they wanted to \u201cgive audiences a different perspective\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s an event that we personally remember well. It\u2019s one of the rare sports moments that most people of a certain age, even if they\u2019re basketball fans or maybe not basketball fans, can remember where they were and what they were doing when this all happened,\u201d Maclain said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was just so different then how an NBA game normally ends. Just the concept of the game getting cancelled and not even finished was something so outside of the realm of possibility at that time.<\/p>\n \u201cSo it\u2019s always lingered in a way, and I think it\u2019s definitely been covered; people have talked about Malice. Talking to Jermaine O\u2019Neil, he made some fascinating points early on in our conversations about how this massive event that\u2019s had a huge traumatic impact on his life has basically been reduced to a YouTube highlight reel that goes viral every year. One time a year, it picks up millions of views and it blows up and people comment and they reach out to ask him about it and he was a little tired about it.\u201d<\/p> He added that the documentary\u2019s participants \u2013 including Pacers players Stephen Jackson and Metta Sandiford-Artest (formerly known as Ron Artest) \u2013 wanted to go beyond \u201cthe highlight reel\u201d to show what happened.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat was exciting for us was as we kind of re-approached this story \u2013 we saw that there was a pretty important recontextualization that could be needed on this story. I think that a lot of the blame went to the players and, listen, I don\u2019t think, in our documentary, our players don\u2019t act like they\u2019re blameless; they take a little responsibility. I think everyone takes a little responsibility. I think this was not an event that anyone was necessarily proud to be a part of.<\/p>\n \u201cBut a lot of the blame went directly on the players for what they did and I think that we found an energy of talking to these guys and kind of recontextualising a bit and giving audiences a different perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n Chapman added that they were given raw, never-before-seen footage of the match for the documentary. \u201cWhen it was brought to us and we saw it for the first time, it was a really eye-opening experience.<\/p>\n \u201cTo see all the different angles definitely changes your experience of what happened that night inside that arena.\u201d<\/p>\n Untold: Malice at the Palace is available to stream on Netflix, with the remaining Untold episodes being released weekly.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Filmmaker brothers Maclain and Chapman Way told RadioTimes.com why they chose to shine a light on the Pacers-Pistons brawl. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":3002,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/untold-malice-at-the-palace-creators-reveal-why-important-recontextualization-was-needed-when-looking-at-2004-brawl.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/untold-malice-at-the-palace-creators-reveal-why-important-recontextualization-was-needed-when-looking-at-2004-brawl-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/untold-malice-at-the-palace-creators-reveal-why-important-recontextualization-was-needed-when-looking-at-2004-brawl-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/untold-malice-at-the-palace-creators-reveal-why-important-recontextualization-was-needed-when-looking-at-2004-brawl.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/untold-malice-at-the-palace-creators-reveal-why-important-recontextualization-was-needed-when-looking-at-2004-brawl.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/untold-malice-at-the-palace-creators-reveal-why-important-recontextualization-was-needed-when-looking-at-2004-brawl.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/untold-malice-at-the-palace-creators-reveal-why-important-recontextualization-was-needed-when-looking-at-2004-brawl.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Filmmaker brothers Maclain and Chapman Way told RadioTimes.com why they chose to shine a light on the Pacers-Pistons brawl.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/3001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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