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Topic subjectRE: does that mean the poster should not be disturbed by the line?
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362016, RE: does that mean the poster should not be disturbed by the line?
Posted by meccau, Fri Apr-04-08 12:01 PM
>Not to mention that the lines are coming from these
>cool-as-hell anti-heroes that most of the audience is
>enchanted by. It's interesting that racism is a disqualifying
>factor for most of the people in the real world that we
>support (or at least we say it is), but it's okay in the film
>characters we love. Why aren't we immediately rooting against
>these characters the second they say something racist? Surely
>that would be the pose we'd adopt in the real-world. Do we
>enjoy the power fiction gives us to free ourselves from trying
>to feel how we THINK we're supposed to feel, instead of how we
>actually do?
>
>I'm not even criticizing the filmmakers. It's just a pretty
>interesting insight into the audience.

check.

We relate to the dream so we began to live vicariously through the characters, substituting there situations with ours so we feel we're living in their shoes.

but that is a problem with the audience....
when its good, its good, and the audience is affected by it.