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I am an audience, first and foremost

samclemens

created: June 6, 2025, 2:45 a.m. | updated: June 6, 2025, 4:02 a.m.

Elswit continues:Essentially what happens in the train scene, it’s a literal and metaphorical Tom Cruise take over. They did seem to apply the main lesson: audiences do not like to think about Tom Cruise having sex. When the Hitchcockian dream state is broken, the audience is reminded of themselves as being an audience, separate from the actor. […] Our system was not lettin' the audience know so that the audience wouldn't “yes” us. So that you got the audience in there, the minute it says, “MGM Presents,” the audience applauds.

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