On Panic Room, for instance, which is an interesting movie – maybe not from an audience's standpoint – but from a technical standpoint: you have an entire movie taking place in one space.
From the audience's standpoint, the sound is impressive.
Nothing else in Yasmina Reza's two-character play suffers such affectations of implied universality as their namelessness, unless you don't take to the device of two people taking turns talking to themselves, or from a theatrical standpoint, to the audience.
I think that's very important from a storytelling standpoint because the audience gets to experience Atlantis for the first time along with the character.
But this week, Perry burned not-bright, telling an audience in South Africa, "from the standpoint of sexual assault, when the lights are on, where you have light that shines, the righteousness, if you will, on those types of acts.
"For reach, and from an authority standpoint, they own the audience," Mr. Schafer said.
"He'd be doing well, even if he lost 95 percent of his traffic," Mr. Ross said, referring to Rupert Murdoch, the chief executive of News Corp. "Most of that audience is worthless from an advertising standpoint".
Which may be helpful from a therapeutic or an ethical standpoint, but for the movie audience, what makes "51 Birch Street" so gripping is its particularity.
And from a critical standpoint the notion of the audience choosing among multiple endings destroys the essential pleasure of a mystery or crime procedural: the intellectual exercise of solving a puzzle that requires our attention from first moment to last.
The telephone companies say that local cable advertising, from the standpoint of price and the audience reached, could be one of the most effective ways to promote D.S.L. to the relatively young, technically adept and affluent consumers most likely to sign up for high-speed Internet access.
