Norval Morrisseau - CBC Stages Gabe & Michele Vadas "Talking" to a "broken body with a pulse" 2004
Channel: Hoax Buster
Date: 02/12/2013

By 2004, Norval was little more than a "broken body with a pulse," so creative film-making techniques had to be used to make it appear Norval was not comatose, when the CBC filmed the "Life and Times of Norval Morrisseau."

Everyone knows that multiple Strokes, Dementia, Alcohol Dementia, and Parkinson's, had reduced Norval to little more than a quadriplegic in a wheelchair, who could not talk intelligibly or communicate with anyone since the early 2000s.

Since the mid 1990s, Norval had, in fact, the most debilitated body and mind of any Canadian celebrity in history and was long past being able to paint the canvases for which he gained fame in the 1970s.

But the "greedy white men" who clustered around his wheelchair for financial advantage, like Gabe Vadas, Michele Vadas, and Donald Robinson, were hot and heavy into perpetuating numerous myths:
- that there were "thousands of fakes by umpteen forgers" of Morrisseau art out there, all belonging to their business competitors
- that Norval was mentally alive and had, himself found them all and told them to root them out
- that Norval could remember all the art he ever painted, and his memory was perfect
- that he was physically perfectly capable of painting masterpieces till at least 2001
- that Norval was aware, and approved being trundled about for photo ops to help sales

In fact all of it was false, and part of the biggest Hoax in Canadian history.

This CBC video shows how the media helped perpetuate the myth that Norval "talked," knew what was going on, etc., when in fact, for years he had only been a "broken body with a pulse."

As a passionate still photographer, and longtime top Canadian cinematographer, for some fifty years, I would never take pictures of a corpse at an accident scene.

http://angloboerwarmuseum.com/Boer70zz14_goldi_curator.php

http://thecanadasite.com/art/art56_goldi.php

Nor would I ever take pictures, or allow pictures to be taken, of any human being that is in Norval's condition at this distressing time in his life. Let alone parade him about for photo ops.

Think about it, if you were in this condition - Stroke, Dementia, Alcohol Dementia, and Parkinson's debilitated and confined to a wheelchair, unable to communicate, move, or talk anymore, with tongue hanging out and drooling - would you want yourself, or a family member, paraded in public, and or exposed on public television, the way Norval's white handlers are doing.

I would think not. 

And I don't know of a decent human being who would.

I know Norval is screaming inside at what final insult the "greedy white men" have imposed on him just to help them promote their businesses.

But I can tell how the CBC producer, with a job to do, tried to make it appear that Norval was an actively thinking and talking human being.

So the scene had to be staged.

Bring in two actors who can talk, to tart up the scene of a so-called conversation

Plant an open book in Norval's hands, though Norval hadn't been able to read for years, and no one knew to what degree Norval could even "see" anymore. His eyes are always fixed and staring without looking at anyone or any external stimuli of any kind as all the videos make clear. He probably responds mostly to noises or being grabbed.
Norval is not filmed actually talking, since the producer reported that Norval couldn't say a word

So Norval is filmed from behind when he supposedly "talks," with voice mumblings being added to the sound track, later in the studio, with a reverse angle shot showing Gabe and Michele pretending they are hearing and engaging Norval, when in fact they are not. It's pure Hollywood.

Norval's non-communication is so bad that Gabe even says, preposterously, that he can communicate with Norval eye to eye. "I understand him very clearly. But we speak with our eyes also. Sometimes things that aren't said are said very loud in silence."

Here they show only Norval's eyes, carefully avoiding his drooling tongue hanging out.

This preposterous Vadas concept that "things that aren't said are said very loud in silence" is what is behind the whole Conspiracy Theorist HOAX of "thousands of fakes by umpteen forgers.

Finally, to promote the myth, Vadas give the CBC false information
- about a stroke in 1996, when Norval had at least one -- probably more - as early as 1994, or earlier
- "By the dawn of the millennium he could no longer paint." In fact Norval hadn't been able to paint like his legendary old self since the very early 1990s at the very latest.

Further telling proof that Norval is literally little more than a "broken body with a pulse" is that Gabe and Michele, throughout, are constantly grabbing Norval, trying to get a reaction for the camera. In fact in the second last scene Norval appears to erupt in anger at all the "affectionate" grabbing he's been subjected to since the CBC camera appeared on the scene.

AND IT GETS WORSE...
See: http://themorrisseauhoaxexposedblog.com/