Film has always seemed to this writer to be a highly manipulative art form or entertainment. But why? After all, all forms of artifice are designed to manipulate the audience to some extent; that is the very nature of the endeavour.
Above: Janet Leigh drives, without music. Below: with the music.
In theatre, for example, actors imitate emotion by using gesture, tone, expression. Painters use their techniques of line, colour, design to elicit responses. Jazz musicians …
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