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suspension of disbelief |
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As I studied the principles behind magic and the way in which a magic trick relies on the willful suspension of belief, I realized that a lot of what filmmakers do for an audience now is what magicians did for audiences in the past. The introductory chapter eloquently describes the phenomenon of an audience's need to have the "willing suspension of belief. This appearance requires the kind of suspension of belief usually reserved for the Terminator or Matrix sequels; if Claude is really sick with HIV in 1986, that's a full decade before the epidemic-altering protease inhibitor cocktails were readily available. |
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