Film, Illusion & Spectatorship, Part 4: Just give me something I already know and already love.
In Part 1, we discussed how the slickness of Hollywood movies turns audiences off to movies with ambiguous endings. In Part 2, we explored how audiences don’t like it when movies remind them that they are fake. In Part 3, we examined how audiences react when either the acting style or the character depictions fall [...]
Film, Illusion & Spectatorship, Part 2: Take me to a whole new world…but don’t show me how we got there.
In Part 1 we discussed how the typical Hollywood ending turns audiences off to movies with ambiguous endings. Now, in Part 2, we explore why audiences reject movies that remind them that they are, well, fake. The insistence on a certain type of realism, which in Hollywood comes down to slickness, truncates the audience’s imagination. [...]