Black and minority ethnic actors play the roles of the Founding Fathers, a casting decision that
turns audience expectations upside down as soon as the musical starts.
Not exact matches
In December 2013, the U.S. Army launched the «Defy
Expectations» recruitment campaign, in which, according to the campaign's press release, «the U.S. Army takes the audience's expectations about what the Army experience is like and turns it on its head in a surprising but realistic
Expectations» recruitment campaign, in which, according to the campaign's press release, «the U.S. Army takes the
audience's
expectations about what the Army experience is like and turns it on its head in a surprising but realistic
expectations about what the Army experience is like and
turns it on its head in a surprising but realistic way.»
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.
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.
I think it has the advantage of dragging potential
audience members in with zero
expectations and then impressing them when it
turns out to actually have something most comedies leave out: heart.
The addition of Sharlto Copley as a mercenary
turned advocate of progression for third world countries gives the proceedings good opportunities to toy with
expectations of the
audience (keep in mind that none of the swerves are anything mind - blowing, but logically reasonable shifts that propel momentum forward and shake the plot up), but again, his arc (along with everyone else's including Harold's) could have been better realized).
In the heart of the Theater District, Applause
turns viewing
expectations upside - down, exposing the underlying tension between a performer and
audience.