TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today to DC StudiosEnglish · 4 months ago‘Superman’ Test Screenings Asked ‘Why the F— Is He Saving a Squirrel?’ and James Gunn Originally Cut It Out: ‘I Put the Squirrel Back Despite Protestations’variety.comexternal-linkmessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down11
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minus-squareAusatKeyboardPremilinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·4 months agoDavid F. Sandberg’s YouTube video on test screenings (Invidious link) When your audience asks such questions, it is time to get a different audience. It doesn’t matter whether the act aligns with the character of <movie protagonist>, I would have been annoyed if I learnt about such a scene that got edited out.
minus-squareWindex007linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·4 months agoJust because a test audience asks a question doesn’t necessarily mean the scene is bad anyway. A director or writer may hear that an audience were left pondering a question and say “good. Let them think about it.”
David F. Sandberg’s YouTube video on test screenings (Invidious link)
When your audience asks such questions, it is time to get a different audience.
It doesn’t matter whether the act aligns with the character of <movie protagonist>, I would have been annoyed if I learnt about such a scene that got edited out.
Just because a test audience asks a question doesn’t necessarily mean the scene is bad anyway.
A director or writer may hear that an audience were left pondering a question and say “good. Let them think about it.”