If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action.
Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.
The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?
It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.
I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence.
When the audience is awful you can still have a great night and people will walk out thinking they had a great time even though there was loads of loudmouths and the sound was terrible.
I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.
Most people have to talk so they won't hear.
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