Emotional Pattern Examples

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'We're more reluctant to offer cues as to how the audience is supposed to react in different situations, which confuses certain people. It's not a question of not being willing to follow conventions . . .. It's just that there's nothing interesting to us about being as formulaic as a lot of Hollywood movies.'

-- Joel Coen

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