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Are there ever actual surprises though? I remember how amazing it was to see movies as a kid and find out about Darth Vader being Luke Skywalker’s father, but a
by criddell 3y ago
Are there ever actual surprises though? I remember how amazing it was to see movies as a kid and find out about Darth Vader being Luke Skywalker’s father, but after 40 more years of watching movies, surprises are very few and far between. I have a better understanding of the language of movies.
I agree with you though for whodunit movies where there’s a lot of misdirection and surprise is the point. But knowing a lot about Barton Fink or some James Bond movie doesn’t diminish my fun.
- mannykannot 3y agoIt is not just a matter of surprise, though - in the presence of foreknowledge, it is harder for the author to create, and the reader to feel, any sort of dramatic tension.
- huytersd 3y agoAbsolutely. I’m “surprised” by every new plot point in every book.
- barrysteve 3y agoThere is a decline in big mind blowing conceptual shifts in media, like we experienced in Star Wars after decades of Spaghetti Westerns. Social and conceptual shifts are happening in real time, out in the world now. The big media build up to change has been reduced signficantly. Goldeneye could have been more thrilling if the trailers withheld the reveal of Alec Trevalyn as the bad guy. 1995 was a year where most people couldn't look up movie information on the internet... going into the movie theatre blind, it would have been awesome to get the secret revealed on the big screen.
- omgmajk 3y agoI very rarely get surprised even if I do read a book from page 1 to X and don't read ahead. Not sure why that is.
- slavik81 3y agoI went to see Cabin in the Woods based on nothing but the title and the 18A rating. It was quite an experience.
- scooke 3y agoI really enjoyed the shock of seeing future Thor smack into the invisible barrier - his determination, the crescendoing music, the hope that _finally_ someone is going to do something... Splat.