Producers of a product can have such astonishingly different views from consumers of the same. When I was working on a title, I was indeed focused on very different things from what the testers observed. This was surprising, since I am a consumer myself and I would likely know what I would look out for.
When I watched the making of Hannibal Rising, I was listening to what the director had to say about the various scenes. While I was paying attention to the details of the story, he was talking about all the tiny details of the scenes that I never noticed. Little textures like the bicycle strapped to a beaten up tank, for example. Of course, maybe I'm not a WWII buff, so I wouldn't know what to look out for. I'm sure that would be a welcome detail for the savvy audience.
Still, considering the level of detail the producers went into when making films, it makes me wonder exactly how many films had such detail pumped into production, only to be nixed by the overall bad writing and/or acting. The expense sunk into detailed scenes that wind up being cut in post-production is incredible, too. Perhaps that is why films have such incredible budgets, yet seem to display only a fraction of that budget on the big screen. That's because all the extra stuff has been cut out!
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