Robert Viagas

It would sound weird.

Ah, but if you're at a musical, they have literally have a chorus and they do exactly what the Greek choruses did, except they sing it.

And audiences accept that perfectly.

Well, audiences have been trained now to accept that, uh,

There was a famous French movie that came out at the time when they first had movies.

It was called The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat.

It was a very short movie.

And all it was, the audiences were just learning to watch these things and to accept them.

It was just a train pulling into a station.

And the train was coming right at the audience.

But it looked it wasn't a painted train.

It wasn't, you know, actors wearing a train costume.

It was a train and it was coming straight at them.

And people screamed in terror.

They thought a train was coming at them.

But now but after that, people laughed at themselves and they said, well, you know, we we accept now that we could see a picture of a train and we know it's not going to hurt us.

And gradually over the years, many, many other things that have been added

to the way they create images, the way they create plays, etc., audiences have gradually learned to respond in certain ways that they think now has always been there, but it hasn't.

Yes.

Well, the earliest reference that I could find to it is back in the days of the Roman Empire when a Roman general would be out on a campaign and it was a successful campaign, which many of them were.