Relationship between Audience and Characters.

Plenty of movie sequels and franchises for one reason or another have continued on without a main character or more. Movies such as Blues Brothers 2000, Batman, Home Alone, Speed, Independence Day, Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, Jurassic Park series and Harry Potter series.

While they may be as good as their originals, they might break the Relationship Between Audiences and Characters, which was built in the previous movie, in other words, the Relationship Between Audience and Films.

Let's see how do directors and writers start the relationship and evolve it and how does it effect the audience and affect the movies.

A movie effect on the audience is huge as it can cause an emotional response, audiences, however, can also affect the film popularity, longevity and its status in our cinematic life. Having audiences made up of different personage it is out of question to say that a film will have the same impact on all viewers.

The most important thing in effective and successful filmmaking is the audience empathy and recognition for and of the characters in a story.

Infallible plots subliminally drag people to engage mentally with the characters as they find themselves in the story leading the characters to the right decision which allow the audience to gain the satisfaction they want and deliver them the pleasure they get from watching a movie and notice what they felt about it before and after.

One of the most important techniques that filmmakers use to breed, educate and develop the relationship between audiences and films is the Emotional Suturing technique.

Directors and writers develop this technique by emotionally suturing the audience into the story by creating characters and developing situations that breed empathy, jeopardy, and ‪accuracy,  which drawn people to characters who are attractive, funny, powerful and charming. Having characters with such attributes, audience are encouraged to get close and characterize them. It is a frugally emotional reaction based on the character's outward appearance and behavior, that’s why whenever emotional suturing technique is applied filmmakers are always certain that they have applied and embedded the Moral Suturing technique, as it is a derivative of it.

Audiences do not watch whatever is released as they watch different films for different reasons the uses and gratifications theory suggested by Blulmer and Katz indicates four main pleasures to gain and attract you to movies, which are diversion, personal relationships, personal identification and surveillance, that’s why audiences can get pleasure from a film through a love story because of the emotions they feel, where they can see themselves in the characters and relate to them.

On the other hand quite a lot watch movies for diversion just to get away from the problems and reality of their own lives that’s why we find a lot of escapism in most of Hollywood blockbusters epically fantasy movies as it can pleasure people with the creation of the imagination and how it is impossible or as if they are having another identity in another world where good usually triumphs over evil and everyone turns happy. Having your dreams and wishes come true you emotionally connect with the character you see, you connect to his movement, facial expressions, voice and even his smell that you assign him, which is any odor you smell not noticing while watching the movie.

Many movie sequels stop you from traveling to the land of fantasy you created by changing the cast or the characters, that’s why it is essential to keep developing the escape from reality you feel by keeping the same cast and characters not cutting the Audience – Character “Film” Relationship as it will affect the sequel longevity in a way or another.

In summary, bonding and connecting with your audience is fundamental and it requires the directors and the writers to suture the audience into the visual, emotional and moral parts of the movie to grant the success of the Relationship Between Audience and Characters. 

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