Sentences with phrase «reaction out of an audience»

So is that then also being emotionally manipulative, isn't any film trying to elicit any strong reaction out of an audience — whether it be scares, laughs, or tears — technically guilty of manipulation?

Not exact matches

A Cuomo official on Wednesday in an email detailed the length of each applause line paired with the issue that garnered the audience reaction, including 24 seconds when Cuomo praised first responders, seven seconds when he gave a shout out to Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, 10 seconds when he vowed to defend the Roe v. Wade decision, 11 seconds when he vowed to fight homelessness and more than a full minute of combined applause for Akeem Browder when he was recognized.

As an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himself.

It's rare that a movie jumps straight into a wedding scene and lets most of it play out on the actors» faces, without any cheesy audience reaction shots or contextual scene - setting.

There's much to admire in Whiplash, and if audience reaction is used as measurement of a film's success you'd think Whiplash was the greatest film out of Cannes, not just the Director's Fortnight where the year's Sundance hit usually lands.

Egoyan's films often follow non-linear plot - structures, in which events are placed out of sequence in order to elicit specific emotional reactions from the audience by withholding key information.

It's also telling how some who saw the film have pointed out that they, along with most of the people attending that screening, were basically the perfect audience for the film to pander to, which does call into question whether the positive reactions will be shared among those who aren't in the target demographic.

Get Out Much of Jordan Peele's breakout hit was infused with openly startling moments meant to evoke visceral audience reactions, and yet the one that resonated most was shrouded in a stunning silence.

But judging by this year's audience reactions to the sold - out showings of both Martin McDonagh's «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» and Dee Rees» «Mudbound,» maybe sentiment concerning matters involving the verbal and physical abuse of women, hate crimes and violence directed at those of different races or creeds and the rise of white supremacy has affected more than just those who voted against the GOP candidate.

This kind of semi-autobiographical telescoping is amplified by Brooks's more effective reuse of an idea from Blazing Saddles: climaxing the movie with a screening of the movie, showing the audience the audience - reaction, and then romping out of the theater into the world itself, ripping the curtain between real world and reel world apart at the seams.

Faces Places received one of the liveliest audience reactions that I have seen since working with FF2: on multiple occasions everyone in the nearly filled theater burst out laughing all at once and a brief, but tangible, sense of community arose.

That just reflects what this movie and DVD really is: one huge ego trip, and evidence doesn't come any stronger than the final special feature: a feature - length recording of the audience at film's premiere, which means lots of hooting, hollering, laughing, and approving applause — in other words, a reaction universes removed from the reality of what played out in multiplexes across the country earlier this year.

Gugino is absolutely entrancing throughout, and how she gets out of the cuffs — one of the most graphic scenes witnessed all year, and one crying for audience reaction — will not soon leave your mind.

She adds, «The reaction has been positive and we had an audience who wanted to know more and a few exhibitions throughout the U.S. came out of what was seen here at 1:54 last year.»

Some of the extended bits that Fadem pulled off in that time: sitting down on a rubber stool, kicking a hole through a stage that would eventually collapse in full, slamming a weird sort of metal gate / screen - door combination affixed to the building's wall, jumping into the East River and then reappearing inside of a barrel of vaseline that was treated to looked like toxic sludge, hurling himself into a pile of cardboard boxes and then sounding the world's most pathetic airhorn, addressing the performance's one heckler with a drawn - out gesture involving his middle finger, drinking a number of glasses of water in rapid succession before moving to a sort of thick, clear liquid that he repeatedly spit up and attempted to drink again (I heard an audience member worry that this would trigger a series of chain - reaction vomiting in the audience.