Does the publisher think we're too dim to get all the references?
Or that audiences will not get all the references and in-jokes?
I knew we'd have to rise to the occasion, which actually made it more fun, as did the fact that Patrick would get all the references.
But the problem is that in order to read it you have read about another 50 books to get all the references.
Even if you don't get all the references, you may still have a sense of the studio as a kind of scared anachronism, a place frozen in time as our digital age plunges headlong into the virtual future.
Not sure if viewers who are, say, 25 or 33 will get all the references, but there were scenes that tipped a hat or two to them, set in the 1990s and after.
Younger children are unlikely to get all the references to monsters of yore, but if nothing else, the film will give their parents an opportunity to educate them about the Invisible Man and Quasimodo.
The aim is to communicate and engage, to escape constricting notions of good taste and create a "narrative" with which people can connect – and whether you get all the references is not entirely the point, as opposed to getting the sense that someone is talking to you.
I'm an impostor, like a creepy foreign party crasher who stands nodding with a wine glass in her hand, pretending to get all the references.
This bunch of "Dynasty" togs gets all the references right but lacks the sort of wink and nudge that would make it go down the gullet without sticking.
