Suspension Of Disbelief: How Movies & TV Become Unbelievable

Often I think in narrative media there comes a moment where the audience can no longer suspend their disbelief – the moment where they think, well I could believe the shapeshifitng alien, I could believe the whole coma story line, but Steven Seagal turning into a giant cockroach.

Here I examine how Movies and TV can lose their audience through incongruent tone, or technical shortcomings, or narrative flaws that take themselves too seriously or don't offer enough realism.

Movies mentioned:

Casablanca (1942), Killers From Space (1954), Once Upon A Time In The West (1968), Blazing Saddles (1974), Happy Days (1974 - 1984), Dallas (1978 - 1991), Rocky IV (1985), Robocop 2 (1990), Diagnosis Murder (1993 - 2001), Die Hard With A Vengeance (1995), Scream (1996), Jeepers Creeper (2001), The Office (2001 - 2003), The Bourne Identity (2002), The Village (2004), Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull (2008), The Human Centipede (2009), Final Destination 5 (2011), The Purge (2013), American Sniper (2014), Dido, Queen Of Carthage (On Stage 2017)

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