It almost goes without saying that audiences are dumber than they were fifty years ago, because back then they were adults with nothing on television and today they're teenagers trying to get out of the house. I would also put forward the hypothesis that movies now have to be exciting at the start because the audience will leave and sneak into the next theater if they don't get hooked early.
Which makes the Chronicles of Narnia thing so curious, because The Magicians Nephew is a really awful place to begin the series. You're two-thirds of the way through the book before you even get to Narnia and you don't have any affinity for Aslan when you do.
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Date: 2005-03-13 12:52 am (UTC)Which makes the Chronicles of Narnia thing so curious, because The Magicians Nephew is a really awful place to begin the series. You're two-thirds of the way through the book before you even get to Narnia and you don't have any affinity for Aslan when you do.