Test screenings & previews

in a negative way, a negativity between characters. It's meant to be them either busting on each other or in tension yelling at one another. It actually has, it's counterintentional. It actually alienates you from the character. And there were about four lines of dialogue and after the first test screening, Tom picked them out. We noticed that Benji wasn't resonating the way he usually does.

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Well, we are at the point in the movie where everybody, when they feel the energy stop in the first test screening, they all got up to go pee. Exactly. And that is something we were very conscious of. Yes, exactly. We watch how many people go to the bathroom, when they go to the bathroom. And that tells us that something in the story is, that was a little punch in by Annie Hamilton. Yeah, I love that punch in. But also, this was a scene that was shot quite late in the day when we realized we need to recontextualize the white widow and the fact that, you know,

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And, uh, and in our first test, one of the guys in the focus group said, what was it that scene? He said, either, either make it longer or cut it out. Yeah. We were, we were again being subtle and we were alluding to things that were going to show up in part two and really what the audience wanted at this point. And what we really, what we really realized we were obligated to do is let's clear all this up. Yeah. And explain what happened with the keys and. Yep. Yeah. And, and of course the journey of the keys is.

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