Feb
19
2014
Them! & ‘Willing Suspension of Disbelief’
Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“How does one persuade an audience to put aside its normally critical approach to subject matter and willingly collaborate with the storyteller in accepting as logical what is plainly incredible, nonsensical and/or absurd? The phrase ‘willing suspension of disbelief’ comes to mind.” Alexander Mackendrick “Them!, a 1954 American science-fiction film, is absolute and unashamed hokum. […]
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