Meanwhile, "Life of Pi" earned better reviews than any of the weekend's other debuts, and audiences assigned the film an average A- grade.
With a cast of three men accompanied by a pianist, this show changes nightly, its course determined in part by the audience, which assigns the family roles to the actors.
The key to the idea, in Rosen's mind, is to give "people formerly known as the audience" the assigning power previously reserved for editors.
Mr. Fallon consistently tried to incorporate a wackier Web spirit into his on-air performance, even picking random people in the studio audience and assigning them made-up Facebook identities.
Audience members are assigned to an ensemble member, a sort of minder who begins the evening by tracing feet (see sandal-making activity above) and offering foot massages.
Secret Cinema starts as soon as a ticket is procured, with audience members being assigned characters and encouraged to dress and play the part.
It aggregates questions from audience members, can assign remote co-hosts, provide screenings to approve video callers behind the scenes, or work with an editor to cut between single or multi-shots in realtime.
Carrey's performance was not a continuation of the characters from his previous box office successes, but did the film owe it to the audience to continue assigning him the same roles?
By creating stage effects that were strange or unusual, Brecht intended to assign the audience an active role in the production by forcing them to ask questions about the artificial environment and how each individual element related to real-life events.
Taken literally, Hume appears to claim that literary works are beautiful independent of the audience's ability to assign ideas or meanings to the words.
