Sentences with phrase «confound 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.

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However, any such expectations were confounded by Winterbottom's creation of a work that challenged generic norms and tested the boundaries of the content deemed acceptable for the middle - aged middle class audiences that are the genre's mainstay.

I guess it's a good thing, especially given the marketing was seemingly trying to give away as much as humanly possible, that Ridley Scott has succeeded in mystifying audiences and, for some, confounding expectations.

by Glenn Dunks «Ridley Scott has succeeded in mystifying audiences and, for some, confounding expectations»