It's a giant hammer, and so
it treats every member of the audience as a nail.
It really is gruesome; paramedics had to be called to
treat a member of the audience who couldn't take it at the Toronto International Film Festival last year.
This was from the same event where the Nokia's N9 MeeGo handset was announced, where the head of the Finnish fone company
treated members of the audience to a sneak preview of what's still to come this year — the first Windows Phone 7 driven Nokia handset.
Not exact matches
Steven Rosenberg, chief
of surgery at NCI, riveted everyone's attention by recounting the varied success
of treating patients with tumor - infiltrating lymphocytes and then took a few moments to address
audience members about advancing their scientific careers.
The real - life Harding's reputation precedes her in the court
of public opinion, which could be a sticking point for certain
audience members, but for those willing, the movie is a
treat.
The sheer magnitude
of the film allows viewers to be
treated not as
audience -
members, but as believers.
The
audience is
treated to a repeated expository monologue about the Death Queen known as Himiko, whose meagerly implied history suggests a more interesting kernel
of storytelling than anything regarding Croft and her muddled family history (relayed through convenient montages reserved for
audience members who might have lost interest in what's being presented).
The crowd got a
treat when longtime voice
of Hulk, Fred Tatasciore stood up as an
audience member, giving a clue for what would be shown next.
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.
In his nationwide Show Me Your Data And I'll Tell You Who You Are lecture tour last year, Dr Brian McNamee, also
of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics,
treated roomfuls
of people around the country to live demonstrations
of how
audience members» unsettling personal data could be used by interlopers
of all kinds, from commercial enterprises to national security agencies.