"Audience expectations" refers to what people anticipate or hope to see or hear when they are watching or experiencing something, like a movie, play, or concert. It could involve certain themes, emotions, or types of content that they expect based on their own personal preferences or familiarity with the genre or artist.
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You might find yourself thinking Tyrel will follow a similar narrative path, but Silva is up to something stranger here, playing with
audience expectations in a puzzling, occasionally scattershot way.
Besson even manages to
subvert audiences expectations at a few points by not delivering on big showdowns and staying true to his protagonists abilities and motives.
If anything, the subversions
on audience expectations feel more experimental than meaningful, which actually gives the film a very freeing, anything - goes vibe.
Sunset Blvd. and In a Lonely Place are a bit more out of place, satirizing the film industry with their screenwriter protagonists and having some fun with
audience expectations by respectively infusing romance and comedy into the noir form.
Besson manages to subvert
audiences expectations at a few points by not delivering on big showdowns and staying true to his protagonist's abilities and motives.
Presumably Leigh's intention is to
challenge audience expectations of «normality» by creating a character far outside our experience of people's attitudes and using her to provoke introspection.
I loved the way it
upends audience expectations by starting out as one thing - a pick -»em - off, and - then - there - were - none style genre pastiche - but ends up in the realm of Stalker and Solaris.
Audience expectations for a late - in - the - game second sequel to Major League with almost none of the original cast returning are modest enough.
Sadly, it is not to be, as the studio perception of
audience expectations sees what could have been a light, touching romantic comedy marred by injections of crude humor and silly shenanigans simply to placate the juvenile - minded audiences that have made Sandler a success.
Much more than just a cop movie spoof, Hot Fuzz does excellent things in toying with
audience expectations while scoring points as a murder mystery, a detective drama, a slasher film, a small - town sitcom, and a fish out of water story.
IDEABOOST is a business accelerator with a difference - a bootcamp for companies that want to navigate an entertainment ecosystem that has been radically disrupted by new technologies and
demanding audience expectations.
Goodbye Christopher Robin may also
confound audience expectations: for all that it's about the creator of Winnie the Pooh, it's hardly a cuddly kids story.
Late last summer, Rudd seemed determined to stretch his chops and
audience expectations as the solo leading man of Our Idiot Brother.
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With both actors matching his enthusiasm for complex characters and the taut, challenging story about a brain - damaged ex-jock (Gordon - Levitt) being played by a seductive sociopath (Goode), the conversation turned from
defying audience expectations, to what constitutes normal, to the wonders of location filming during winter in Winnipeg.
John Michael McDonagh's much - anticipated follow - up to first feature The Guard, Calvary certainly aims to
shake audience expectations, evidenced scarcely five seconds into the opening scene when our faceless parishioner delivers his ultimatum.
Throughout his career, George Miller has constantly experimented with a variety of genres, brilliantly reconciling
mass audience expectations and the highest artistic standards.
Given the critical failure of Netflix's The Cloverfield Paradox — a film whose surprise Super Bowl release and troubled production have inspired more conversation than its less - than - stellar plot — it seems like a good time to reexamine the Cloverfield franchise's history of
manipulating audience expectation.
Directed and written by Joss Whedon, «Avengers 2»
reverses audiences expectations: Instead of expository timeouts from the knock - downs - drag - outs, the action sequences this time provide much - needed respites from the clichéd comebacks and poorly integrated subplots, one of which introduces Hawkeye's secret family, another the initially nasty sibs Petro (Aaron Taylor - Johnson) and Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen).
But it speaks to this still nascent anti-spoiler culture of cinema - going that is part of the modern undermining of film criticism, which, when done right, opens the minds of the audience to films that don't necessarily
fit audience expectations.
Victoria
breaks audience expectations early on, when the four strapping youths who accost the title character in the street at 4 am turn out to be friendly and non-threatening.
After previously
flooring audience expectations with Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Civil War, it only seemed right that the directing team should try and prove their worth with something bigger (much bigger).
It is an angry film, a belligerent, violent and bleakly desolate examination of xenophobia and racism that is fearless in its willingness to subvert
audience expectation wherever it can.
As uncomfortable as certain elements of «Arkangel» might be, director Jodie Foster handles everything with a measured and sensitive detachment, in line with
audience expectations without over stepping boundaries.
Such positioning is certain to have
shaped audience expectations, given the less than stellar response to Michael Bay's monstrous franchise.
They seemed to oppose the established orthodoxies — bringing in underrepresented ethnic and sexual subjects and, indeed, a strain of ruinous, unedifying sarcasm that distorted
future audience expectations.
Speaking from experience: If your funds and production capabilities are limited and you fear your enhanced elements appear amateurish, slyly
manage audience expectations in your text by referring to it as feeling home - brewed.
In genres that have a fairly standard plot formula — romance (cute meet, conflict, HEA), mystery (crime, investigation, unmasking the criminal), etc. — that's... Continue reading
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Largely playing to
audience expectations once again, Microsoft's 2012 E3 Press Conference focused largely on the system's expanding media license support and Kinect integration.
The writer / director reveals himself to be as intelligent a filmmaker as he is naturally talented, deftly subverting not
only audience expectations, but more so those of the two true lead actors in «Mud.»