I think another good example of this was the recent King Kong. Some
reviewers had a problem with Naomi Watts defying the laws of physics by
standing waving her arms on the Empire State Building, but they had the
ability to accept the many other wacky aspects of the movie. For some
reason, just that one bothered them.
Personally, I am able to suspend disbelief quite well. All I ask is that the
movie be well paced, and that I am entertained. My own pet peeve in an
action movie or comedy is when the lead character or villain stands still
for a few minutes and gives a long explanation of why all the characters did
what they did. I never care about the explanation, because it is almost
always mumbo jumbo anyway. I much prefer Hitchcock's type of explanation,
where it is simply "something" that everyone wants, and they don't explain
it at all.
Bruce
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Patrick Michael Tupy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Theater of the mind...a roller coaster for the grey matter, baby.
> Intellectually, sure, as a glib statement, a ventriloquist on the radio is
> absurd on it's face, but is it any more absurd than when people complain
> that Lois Lane can't see that Clarke Kent is Superman with his feeble pair
> of glasses as
> his only disguise? Fine, we can't make THAT leap but we easily accept that
> the guy is able to leap tall buildings in a single bound? We all pick and
> choose to accept, picture in our minds, BELIEVE what we need to in order to
> accept the story or not. If you can picture Edgar Bergen with a wooden
> dummy on his lap named Chuck McCarthy while listening on the radio, you're
> already a 'believer.' That's the genius of great storytelling and great
> radio.
>
> The ability to suspend your disbelief (or suspend your reliance on the
> sensible, the practical, the empirical) is what makes all stories possible.
> Some folks are less inclined to believe unless they see pictures. So movies
> are easier for them but still, a suspension of disbelief is central for the
> success of film stories just as for radio plays. For movies it's believing
> that Welles is KANE, that Flynn is Robin Hood, that Nicholson and Morgan
> Freeman are dying...suspend your disbelief and all stories are fact, and
> anything is possible. And thus, by extension, the success of Religion...and
> the wars fought over belief of which tales occurred, which hero's
> existed...who's Obi Wan was actually wise, who's wise man is a villain,
> who's 'right,' who's 'wrong' and whether or not the dummy on this fellas lap
> is real or was made of wood and whole cloth.
>
> No disrespect to anyone's particular belief system, just an observation of
> how the process of believing, of having faith and accepting the incredible
> is absolutely central to the acceptance of most any story.
>
> Patrick
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Jul 15, 2008, at 9:25 PM, Jeff Potokar wrote:
>
> roger,
> -do a little reading on the duo and you will know why they were so popular
> and loved--even on the radio.
>
> it was also a different time and world.. simple ways to entertain the
> masses.
>
> jeff
>
>
>
> On Jul 15, 2008, at 9:11 PM, Roger Kim wrote:
>
> For some inexplicable reason, they had one of the most popular radio
> shows during the golden age of radio. It makes no sense that they let a
> ventriloquist on the radio. It's almost as bad as putting a mime on the
> radio. I think it's one of the great mysteries of the universe that the show
> worked.
>
>
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