18-07-2009, 03:06 PM
Again, intel ops always have more than one objective.
Obscure and condition.
The delay in releasing the film served to heighten anticipation, which is to say condition the audience to embrace rather than question the product when it finally was sent to market.
Excellent point about post-Z-film directors' decisions vis a vis violence. What likely was intended to shock ended up having just the opposite effect.
Compared to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Dallas Limo Massacre is just plain goofy.
Then there's The Itchy and Scratchy Show ...
Obscure and condition.
The delay in releasing the film served to heighten anticipation, which is to say condition the audience to embrace rather than question the product when it finally was sent to market.
Excellent point about post-Z-film directors' decisions vis a vis violence. What likely was intended to shock ended up having just the opposite effect.
Compared to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Dallas Limo Massacre is just plain goofy.
Then there's The Itchy and Scratchy Show ...